[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 25 (Wednesday, February 28, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H1403-H1414]
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     PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 2859, AGRICULTURAL MARKET 
                             TRANSITION ACT

  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I 
call up House Resolution 366 and ask for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                              H. Res. 366

       Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this 
     resolution the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 1(b) of rule 
     XXIII, declare the House resolved into the Committee of the 
     Whole House on the State of the Union for consideration of 
     the bill (H.R. 2854) to modify the operation of certain 
     agricultural programs. The first reading of the bill shall be 
     dispensed with. All points of order against consideration of 
     the bill are waived. General debate shall be confined to the 
     bill and the amendments made in order by this resolution and 
     shall not exceed two hours equally divided and controlled by 
     the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on 
     Agriculture. After general debate the bill shall be 
     considered for amendment under the five-minute rule. It shall 
     be in order to consider as an original bill for the purpose 
     of amendment under the five-minute rule the amendment in the 
     nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on 
     Agriculture now printed in the bill. The committee amendment 
     in the nature of a substitute shall be considered as read. 
     All points of order against the committee amendment in the 
     nature of a substitute are waived. Notwithstanding clause 
     5(c) of rule XXIII, no amendment to the committee amendment 
     in the nature of a substitute shall be in order except the 
     amendments specified in the report of the Committee on Rules 
     accompanying this resolution and amendments en bloc described 
     in section 2 of this resolution. Each amendment specified in 
     the report may be considered only in the order specified in 
     the report, may be offered only by a Member designated in the 
     report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for 
     the time specified in the report equally divided and 
     controlled by the proponent and an opponent, shall not be 
     subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand 
     for division of the question in the House or in the Committee 
     of the Whole. All points of order against the amendments 
     made in order to the committee amendment in the nature of 
     a substitute are waived. At the conclusion of 
     consideration of the bill for amendment the Committee 
     shall rise and report the bill to the House with such 
     amendment as may have been adopted. Any Member may demand 
     a separate vote in the House on any amendment adopted in 
     the Committee of the Whole to the bill or to the committee 
     amendment in the nature of a substitute. The previous 
     question shall be considered as ordered on the bill and 
     amendments thereto to final passage without intervening 
     motion except one motion to recommit with or without 
     instructions.
       Sec. 2. It shall be in order at any time for the chairman 
     of the Committee on Agriculture or his designee to offer 
     amendments en bloc consisting of amendments specified in the 
     report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution 
     not earlier disposed of or germane modifications of any such 
     amendments. Amendments en bloc offered pursuant to this 
     section shall be considered as read (except that 
     modifications shall be reported), shall be debatable for 
     twenty minutes equally divided and controlled by the chairman 
     and ranking minority member of the Committee on Agriculture 
     or their designees, shall not be subject to amendment, and 
     shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question 
     in the House or in the Committee of the Whole. For the 
     purpose of inclusion in such amendments en bloc, an amendment 
     printed in the form of a motion to strike may be modified to 
     the form of a germane perfecting amendment to the text 
     originally proposed to be stricken. The original proponent of 
     an amendment included in such amendments en bloc may insert a 
     statement in the Congressional Record immediately before the 
     disposition of the amendments en bloc.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from New York [Mr. Solomon] is 
recognized for 1 hour.
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, for the purposes of debate only, I yield 
the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Hall], my good 
friend, pending which I yield myself such time as I might consume. 
During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded, of course, 
is for the purpose of debate only.
  Mr. Speaker, I insert for the Record the following extraneous 
material:

  THE AMENDMENT PROCESS UNDER SPECIAL RULES REPORTED BY THE RULES COMMITTEE,\1\ 103D CONGRESS V. 104TH CONGRESS 
                                            [As of February 27, 1996]                                           
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                                                  103d Congress                        104th Congress           
              Rule type              ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                       Number of rules    Percent of total   Number of rules    Percent of total
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Open/Modified-open \2\..............                 46                 44                 58                 64
Modified Closed \3\.................                 49                 47                 21                 23
Closed \4\..........................                  9                  9                 12                 13
                                     ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Total.........................                104                100                 91                100
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\1\ This table applies only to rules which provide for the original consideration of bills, joint resolutions or
  budget resolutions and which provide for an amendment process. It does not apply to special rules which only  
  waive points of order against appropriations bills which are already privileged and are considered under an   
  open amendment process under House rules.                                                                     
\2\ An open rule is one under which any Member may offer a germane amendment under the five-minute rule. A      
  modified open rule is one under which any Member may offer a germane amendment under the five-minute rule     
  subject only to an overall time limit on the amendment process and/or a requirement that the amendment be     
  preprinted in the Congressional Record.                                                                       
\3\ A modified closed rule is one under which the Rules Committee limits the amendments that may be offered only
  to those amendments designated in the special rule or the Rules Committee report to accompany it, or which    
  preclude amendments to a particular portion of a bill, even though the rest of the bill may be completely open
  to amendment.                                                                                                 
\4\ A closed rule is one under which no amendments may be offered (other than amendments recommended by the     
  committee in reporting the bill).                                                                             


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                          SPECIAL RULES REPORTED BY THE RULES COMMITTEE, 104TH CONGRESS                         
                                            [As of February 27, 1996]                                           
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                                                 Disposition of 
    H. Res. No. (Date rept.)         Rule type           Bill No.              Subject                rule      
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
H. Res. 38 (1/18/95)...........  O................  H.R. 5...........  Unfunded Mandate        A: 350-71 (1/19/ 
                                                                        Reform.                 95).            
H. Res. 44 (1/24/95)...........  MC...............  H. Con. Res. 17..  Social Security.......  A: 255-172 (1/25/
                                                    H.J. Res. 1......  Balanced Budget Amdt..   95).            
H. Res. 51 (1/31/95)...........  O................  H.R. 101.........  Land Transfer, Taos     A: voice vote (2/
                                                                        Pueblo Indians.         1/95).          
H. Res. 52 (1/31/95)...........  O................  H.R. 400.........  Land Exchange, Arctic   A: voice vote (2/
                                                                        Nat'l. Park and         1/95).          
                                                                        Preserve.                               
H. Res. 53 (1/31/95)...........  O................  H.R. 440.........  Land Conveyance, Butte  A: voice vote (2/
                                                                        County, Calif.          1/95).          
H. Res. 55 (2/1/95)............  O................  H.R. 2...........  Line Item Veto........  A: voice vote (2/
                                                                                                2/95).          
H. Res. 60 (2/6/95)............  O................  H.R. 665.........  Victim Restitution....  A: voice vote (2/
                                                                                                7/95).          
H. Res. 61 (2/6/95)............  O................  H.R. 666.........  Exclusionary Rule       A: voice vote (2/
                                                                        Reform.                 7/95).          
H. Res. 63 (2/8/95)............  MO...............  H.R. 667.........  Violent Criminal        A: voice vote (2/
                                                                        Incarceration.          9/95).          
H. Res. 69 (2/9/95)............  O................  H.R. 668.........  Criminal Alien          A: voice vote (2/
                                                                        Deportation.            10/95).         
H. Res. 79 (2/10/95)...........  MO...............  H.R. 728.........  Law Enforcement Block   A: voice vote (2/
                                                                        Grants.                 13/95).         
H. Res. 83 (2/13/95)...........  MO...............  H.R. 7...........  National Security       PQ: 229-100; A:  
                                                                        Revitalization.         227-127 (2/15/  
                                                                                                95).            
H. Res. 88 (2/16/95)...........  MC...............  H.R. 831.........  Health Insurance        PQ: 230-191; A:  
                                                                        Deductibility.          229-188 (2/21/  
                                                                                                95).            
H. Res. 91 (2/21/95)...........  O................  H.R. 830.........  Paperwork Reduction     A: voice vote (2/
                                                                        Act.                    22/95).         
H. Res. 92 (2/21/95)...........  MC...............  H.R. 889.........  Defense Supplemental..  A: 282-144 (2/22/
                                                                                                95).            
H. Res. 93 (2/22/95)...........  MO...............  H.R. 450.........  Regulatory Transition   A: 252-175 (2/23/
                                                                        Act.                    95).            
H. Res. 96 (2/24/95)...........  MO...............  H.R. 1022........  Risk Assessment.......  A: 253-165 (2/27/
                                                                                                95).            
H. Res. 100 (2/27/95)..........  O................  H.R. 926.........  Regulatory Reform and   A: voice vote (2/
                                                                        Relief Act.             28/95).         
H. Res. 101 (2/28/95)..........  MO...............  H.R. 925.........  Private Property        A: 271-151 (3/2/ 
                                                                        Protection Act.         95).            
H. Res. 103 (3/3/95)...........  MO...............  H.R. 1058........  Securities Litigation   .................
                                                                        Reform.                                 
H. Res. 104 (3/3/95)...........  MO...............  H.R. 988.........  Attorney                A: voice vote (3/
                                                                        Accountability Act.     6/95).          
H. Res. 105 (3/6/95)...........  MO...............  .................  ......................  A: 257-155 (3/7/ 
                                                                                                95).            
H. Res. 108 (3/7/95)...........  Debate...........  H.R. 956.........  Product Liability       A: voice vote (3/
                                                                        Reform.                 8/95).          
H. Res. 109 (3/8/95)...........  MC...............  .................  ......................  PQ: 234-191 A:   
                                                                                                247-181 (3/9/   
                                                                                                95).            
H. Res. 115 (3/14/95)..........  MO...............  H.R. 1159........  Making Emergency Supp.  A: 242-190 (3/15/
                                                                        Approps.                95).            
H. Res. 116 (3/15/95)..........  MC...............  H.J. Res. 73.....  Term Limits Const.      A: voice vote (3/
                                                                        Amdt.                   28/95).         
H. Res. 117 (3/16/95)..........  Debate...........  H.R. 4...........  Personal                A: voice vote (3/
                                                                        Responsibility Act of   21/95).         
                                                                        1995.                                   
H. Res. 119 (3/21/95)..........  MC...............  .................  ......................  A: 217-211 (3/22/
                                                                                                95).            
H. Res. 125 (4/3/95)...........  O................  H.R. 1271........  Family Privacy          A: 423-1 (4/4/   
                                                                        Protection Act.         95).            
H. Res. 126 (4/3/95)...........  O................  H.R. 660.........  Older Persons Housing   A: voice vote (4/
                                                                        Act.                    6/95).          
H. Res. 128 (4/4/95)...........  MC...............  H.R. 1215........  Contract With America   A: 228-204 (4/5/ 
                                                                        Tax Relief Act of       95).            
                                                                        1995.                                   
H. Res. 130 (4/5/95)...........  MC...............  H.R. 483.........  Medicare Select          A: 253-172 (4/6/
                                                                        Expansion.              95).            
H. Res. 136 (5/1/95)...........  O................  H.R. 655.........  Hydrogen Future Act of  A: voice vote (5/
                                                                        1995.                   2/95).          
H. Res. 139 (5/3/95)...........  O................  H.R. 1361........  Coast Guard Auth. FY    A: voice vote (5/
                                                                        1996.                   9/95).          
H. Res. 140 (5/9/95)...........  O................  H.R. 961.........  Clean Water Amendments  A: 414-4 (5/10/  
                                                                                                95).            
H. Res. 144 (5/11/95)..........  O................  H.R. 535.........  Fish Hatchery--         A: voice vote (5/
                                                                        Arkansas.               15/95).         
H. Res. 145 (5/11/95)..........  O................  H.R. 584.........  Fish Hatchery--Iowa...  A: voice vote (5/
                                                                                                15/95).         
H. Res. 146 (5/11/95)..........  O................  H.R. 614.........  Fish Hatchery--         A: voice vote (5/
                                                                        Minnesota.              15/95).         
H. Res. 149 (5/16/95)..........  MC...............  H. Con. Res. 67..  Budget Resolution FY    PQ: 252-170 A:   
                                                                        1996.                   255-168 (5/17/  
                                                                                                95).            
H. Res. 155 (5/22/95)..........  MO...............  H.R. 1561........  American Overseas       A: 233-176 (5/23/
                                                                        Interests Act.          95).            
H. Res. 164 (6/8/95)...........  MC...............  H.R. 1530........  Nat. Defense Auth. FY   PQ: 225-191 A:   
                                                                        1996.                   233-183 (6/13/  
                                                                                                95).            
H. Res. 167 (6/15/95)..........  O................  H.R. 1817........  MilCon Appropriations   PQ: 223-180 A:   
                                                                        FY 1996.                245-155 (6/16/  
                                                                                                95).            
H. Res. 169 (6/19/95)..........  MC...............  H.R. 1854........  Leg. Branch Approps.    PQ: 232-196 A:   
                                                                        FY 1996.                236-191 (6/20/  
                                                                                                95).            
H. Res. 170 (6/20/95)..........  O................  H.R. 1868........  For. Ops. Approps. FY   PQ: 221-178 A:   
                                                                        1996.                   217-175 (6/22/  
                                                                                                95).            
H. Res. 171 (6/22/95)..........  O................  H.R. 1905........  Energy & Water          A: voice vote (7/
                                                                        Approps. FY 1996.       12/95).         
H. Res. 173 (6/27/95)..........  C................  H.J. Res. 79.....  Flag Constitutional     PQ: 258-170 A:   
                                                                        Amendment.              271-152 (6/28/  
                                                                                                95).            
H. Res. 176 (6/28/95)..........  MC...............  H.R. 1944........  Emer. Supp. Approps...  PQ: 236-194 A:   
                                                                                                234-192 (6/29/  
                                                                                                95).            
H. Res. 185 (7/11/95)..........  O................  H.R. 1977........  Interior Approps. FY    PQ: 235-193 D:   
                                                                        1996.                   192-238 (7/12/  
                                                                                                95).            
H. Res. 187 (7/12/95)..........  O................  H.R. 1977........  Interior Approps. FY    PQ: 230-194 A:   
                                                                        1996 #2.                229-195 (7/13/  
                                                                                                95).            
H. Res. 188 (7/12/95)..........  O................  H.R. 1976........  Agriculture Approps.    PQ: 242-185 A:   
                                                                        FY 1996.                voice vote (7/18/
                                                                                                95).            
H. Res. 190 (7/17/95)..........  O................  H.R. 2020........  Treasury/Postal         PQ: 232-192 A:   
                                                                        Approps. FY 1996.       voice vote (7/18/
                                                                                                95).            
H. Res. 193 (7/19/95)..........  C................  H.J. Res. 96.....  Disapproval of MFN to   A: voice vote (7/
                                                                        China.                  20/95).         
H. Res. 194 (7/19/95)..........  O................  H.R. 2002........  Transportation          PQ: 217-202 (7/21/
                                                                        Approps. FY 1996.       95).            
H. Res. 197 (7/21/95)..........  O................  H.R. 70..........  Exports of Alaskan      A: voice vote (7/
                                                                        Crude Oil.              24/95).         
H. Res. 198 (7/21/95)..........  O................  H.R. 2076........  Commerce, State         A: voice vote (7/
                                                                        Approps. FY 1996.       25/95).         
H. Res. 201 (7/25/95)..........  O................  H.R. 2099........  VA/HUD Approps. FY      A: 230-189 (7/25/
                                                                        1996.                   95).            
H. Res. 204 (7/28/95)..........  MC...............  S. 21............  Terminating U.S. Arms   A: voice vote (8/
                                                                        Embargo on Bosnia.      1/95).          
H. Res. 205 (7/28/95)..........  O................  H.R. 2126........  Defense Approps. FY     A: 409-1 (7/31/  
                                                                        1996.                   95).            
H. Res. 207 (8/1/95)...........  MC...............  H.R. 1555........  Communications Act of   A: 255-156 (8/2/ 
                                                                        1995.                   95).            
H. Res. 208 (8/1/95)...........  O................  H.R. 2127........  Labor, HHS Approps. FY  A: 323-104 (8/2/ 
                                                                        1996.                   95).            
H. Res. 215 (9/7/95)...........  O................  H.R. 1594........  Economically Targeted   A: voice vote (9/
                                                                        Investments.            12/95).         
H. Res. 216 (9/7/95)...........  MO...............  H.R. 1655........  Intelligence            A: voice vote (9/
                                                                        Authorization FY 1996.  12/95).         
H. Res. 218 (9/12/95)..........  O................  H.R. 1162........  Deficit Reduction       A: voice vote (9/
                                                                        Lockbox.                13/95).         
H. Res. 219 (9/12/95)..........  O................  H.R. 1670........  Federal Acquisition     A: 414-0 (9/13/  
                                                                        Reform Act.             95).            
H. Res. 222 (9/18/95)..........  O................  H.R. 1617........  CAREERS Act...........  A: 388-2 (9/19/  
                                                                                                95).            
H. Res. 224 (9/19/95)..........  O................  H.R. 2274........  Natl. Highway System..  PQ: 241-173 A:   
                                                                                                375-39-1 (9/20/ 
                                                                                                95).            
H. Res. 225 (9/19/95)..........  MC...............  H.R. 927.........  Cuban Liberty & Dem.    A: 304-118 (9/20/
                                                                        Solidarity.             95).            
H. Res. 226 (9/21/95)..........  O................  H.R. 743.........  Team Act..............  A: 344-66-1 (9/27/
                                                                                                95).            
H. Res. 227 (9/21/95)..........  O................  H.R. 1170........  3-Judge Court.........  A: voice vote (9/
                                                                                                28/95).         
H. Res. 228 (9/21/95)..........  O................  H.R. 1601........  Internatl. Space        A: voice vote (9/
                                                                        Station.                27/95).         
H. Res. 230 (9/27/95)..........  C................  H.J. Res. 108....  Continuing Resolution   A: voice vote (9/
                                                                        FY 1996.                28/95).         
H. Res. 234 (9/29/95)..........  O................  H.R. 2405........  Omnibus Science Auth..  A: voice vote (10/
                                                                                                11/95).         
H. Res. 237 (10/17/95).........  MC...............  H.R. 2259........  Disapprove Sentencing   A: voice vote (10/
                                                                        Guidelines.             18/95).         
H. Res. 238 (10/18/95).........  MC...............  H.R. 2425........  Medicare Preservation   PQ: 231-194 A:   
                                                                        Act.                    227-192 (10/19/ 
                                                                                                95).            
H. Res. 239 (10/19/95).........  C................  H.R. 2492........  Leg. Branch Approps...  PQ: 235-184 A:   
                                                                                                voice vote (10/ 
                                                                                                31/95).         
H. Res. 245 (10/25/95).........  MC...............  H. Con. Res. 109.  Social Security         PQ: 228-191 A:   
                                                    H.R. 2491........   Earnings Reform.        235-185 (10/26/ 
                                                                       Seven-Year Balanced      95).            
                                                                        Budget.                                 
H. Res. 251 (10/31/95).........  C................  H.R. 1833........  Partial Birth Abortion  A: 237-190 (11/1/
                                                                        Ban.                    95).            
H. Res. 252 (10/31/95).........  MO...............  H.R. 2546........  D.C. Approps..........  A: 241-181 (11/1/
                                                                                                95).            
H. Res. 257 (11/7/95)..........  C................  H.J. Res. 115....  Cont. Res. FY 1996....  A: 216-210 (11/8/
                                                                                                95).            
H. Res. 258 (11/8/95)..........  MC...............  H.R. 2586........  Debt Limit............  A: 220-200 (11/10/
                                                                                                95).            
H. Res. 259 (11/9/95)..........  O................  H.R. 2539........  ICC Termination Act...  A: voice vote (11/
                                                                                                14/95).         
H. Res. 261 (11/9/95)..........  C................  H.J. Res. 115....  Cont. Resolution......  A: 223-182 (11/10/
                                                                                                95).            
H. Res. 262 (11/9/95)..........  C................  H.R. 2586........  Increase Debt Limit...  A: 220-185 (11/10/
                                                                                                95).            
H. Res. 269 (11/15/95).........  O................  H.R. 2564........  Lobbying Reform.......  A: voice vote (11/
                                                                                                16/95).         
H. Res. 270 (11/15/95).........  C................  H.J. Res. 122....  Further Cont.           A: 229-176 (11/15/
                                                                        Resolution.             95).            
H. Res. 273 (11/16/95).........  MC...............  H.R. 2606........  Prohibition on Funds    A: 239-181 (11/17/
                                                                        for Bosnia.             95).            
H. Res. 284 (11/29/95).........  O................  H.R. 1788........  Amtrak Reform.........  A: voice vote (11/
                                                                                                30/95).         
H. Res. 287 (11/30/95).........  O................  H.R. 1350........  Maritime Security Act.  A: voice vote (12/
                                                                                                6/95)           
H. Res. 293 (12/7/95)..........  C................  H.R. 2621........  Protect Federal Trust   PQ: 223-183 A:   
                                                                        Funds.                  228-184 (12/14/ 
                                                                                                95)             
H. Res. 303 (12/13/95).........  O................  H.R. 1745........  Utah Public Lands.....                   
H. Res. 309 (12/18/95).........  C................  H.Con. Res. 122..  Budget Res. W/          PQ: 230-188 A:   
                                                                        President.              229-189 (12/19/ 
                                                                                                95)             
H. Res. 313 (12/19/95).........  O................  H.R. 558.........  Texas Low-Level         A: voice vote (12/
                                                                        Radioactive.            20/95)          
H. Res. 323 (12/21/95).........  C................  H.R. 2677........  Natl. Parks & Wildlife                   
                                                                        Refuge.                                 
H. Res. 366 (2/27/96)..........  MC...............  H.R. 2854........  Farm Bill.............                   
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Codes: O-open rule; MO-modified open rule; MC-modified closed rule; C-closed rule; A-adoption vote; D-defeated; 
  PQ-previous question vote. Source: Notices of Action Taken, Committee on Rules, 104th Congress.               

  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, the bill made in order by this rule, the 
Agriculture Market Transition Act; in other words, the farm bill, was 
taken largely from the agricultural title of the Balanced Budget Act. 
If the President had signed that bill, the farmers of America would 
have had a farm policy in place with plenty of time to plan for their 
1996 crops. Unfortunately, President Clinton vetoed the Balanced Budget 
Act, so now that the time for planting is coming close in many parts of 
the country, the need to move this bill promptly is very, very 
important.

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  Therefore, it is necessary to have a rule which places some limits on 
the number of amendments which may be offered on the House floor today. 
The Committee on Rules tried to be as fair as possible to all who would 
like to offer amendments on all of the controversial issues. Amendments 
have been made in order on every single one of those.
  On February 16, about 12 days ago, I sent a ``Dear Colleague'' letter 
to every Member of the House, all committee offices, and all leadership 
offices on both sides of the aisle, notifying them that any Member 
desiring to offer an amendment to this bill should file it with the 
Committee on Rules by 3 p.m. on Monday, February 26. That was the day 
before yesterday. An announcement of this process was then made on the 
floor of the House at the next available opportunity by the gentleman 
from Florida [Mr. Goss]. A total of 75 amendments were filed in 
response to that announcement, so evidently Members have had more than 
enough time to file their amendments. I am very pleased about that.
  Mr. Speaker, the Committee on Rules has been as fair as possible in 
producing this rule on the floor today. The rule provides 2 hours of 
general debate, equally divided, followed by the consideration of a 
total of 16 amendments which are specified in the report accompanying 
this rule. Amendments are made in order dealing with the major areas of 
controversy; namely, the dairy program, the sugar program, the peanut 
program, the cotton program, and a conservation program, and each of 
these major issue amendments have bipartisan sponsorship from both 
sides of the aisle. It is important to make that notation.
  Of the remaining amendments, five are offered by Democrats and two of 
those have bipartisan sponsorship as well. There are amendments dealing 
with the environmental concerns, such as the Conservation Reserve 
Program and environmental restoration in the Everglades. While not 
every possible amendment is in order, the areas of greatest concern 
will have an opportunity to be debated fully, and if the House can work 
its will on this legislation, we will immediately appoint conferees, go 
to conference with the Senate, and get a farm bill that the farmers of 
this country can depend on and we can do it right away.
  The rule waives all points of order to allow consideration of the 
bill and the amendments specified in the report accompanying this rule. 
The amendments will be considered in the order printed in the report 
and will not be subject to further amendment. The debate time for each 
amendment is set forth in that report based on the time that was 
requested from both sides of the aisle. We have allocated as much time 
as was requested. So here again we have been as fair as we could.
  In order to expedite consideration of the amendments where agreements 
can be worked out, the rule also provides that the chairman of the 
Committee on Agriculture may offer amendments en bloc. That means he 
may join them together, consisting of amendments printed in the 
Committee on Rules report or germane modifications of those amendments. 
If the proponent of the original amendments does not agree with what is 
being offered by the chairman, he or she may still offer the original 
amendment. So nobody is being gagged. If you do not want your amendment 
considered en bloc, it will not be, and you will have a separate vote 
on it.
  Mr. Speaker, the rule provides a very fair way to consider a complex 
piece of legislation, and it merits the support of this House. Mr. 
Speaker, the bill made in order by this rule is designed to move the 
Government out of the farming business and let farmers start producing 
to meet market needs, rather than producing to meet the requirements of 
Government programs. That is what this is all about. That is what this 
debate is all about today.
  In the long run, this will result in lower costs to the taxpayers and 
more efficient production of food for consumers by the farmers of this 
Nation.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask for a ``yes'' vote on the previous question, a 
``yes'' vote on the rule, and a ``yes'' vote on final passage of this 
bill. We need to get it to the President for his signature.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. HALL of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  (Mr. HALL of Ohio asked and was given permission to revise and extend 
his remarks and include extraneous material.)
  Mr. HALL of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, House Resolution 366 is a modified 
closed rule to consider H.R. 2854, the Agriculture Market Transition 
Program. As my colleague, Mr. Solomon, has described, this rule 
provides 2 hours of general debate, equally divided between the 
chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on Agriculture.
  Under this rule, only those amendments included in the Rules 
Committee report may be offered. It also permits a motion to recommit, 
with or without instructions.
  Mr. Speaker, I am generally opposed to rules such as this which 
restrict the rights of Members to freely amend pending legislation. 
There is a long tradition of the House considering farm legislation 
under an open rule and I am reluctant to break with that tradition.
  This week, the Rules Committee received requests to make in order 
more than 70 separate amendments. This modified closed rule makes in 
order only 16. Many worthwhile amendments important to Members of both 
sides of the aisle were denied.
  H.R. 2854, in its present form, does not adequately address a number 
of basic requirements that should be in farm legislation. It is my 
understanding that, without modification, the President would veto it. 
Some of the amendments that would be made in order by this rule, if 
passed, would improve the bill.
  One of these amendments is a bipartisan effort sponsored by Mr. Roth, 
Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Bereuter, and me. This amendment reauthorizes key 
export and food assistance programs and improves flexibility in the 
delivery and development of food aid programs.
  Because the authority for food aid programs has expired, the United 
States has lost much of its ability to respond to new demands and food 
crises overseas. If these programs are not reauthorized, many people in 
places like Rwanda, Bosnia, and Angola, will go hungry. In these 
countries of crises, American food assistance is the difference between 
life and death. In countries recovering from a recent emergency, such 
as Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Haiti, the lack of food aid could cause 
severe food shortages.
  The Roth-Hamilton-Bereuter-Hall amendment reauthorizes these food aid 
programs for 7 years and renews America's pledge that we will not 
abandon the hungry and the needy of the world.
  An estimated 800 million people around the world suffer from early 
death, disease, and stunted growth because they don't have enough to 
eat. I feel strongly that as we move forward with farm legislation, we 
must not abandon America's longstanding commitment to fighting 
starvation and helping needy people around the world.
  Another amendment which would also improve the bill and which was 
made in order is sponsored by Mr. Solomon and Mr. Dooley and is a 
substitute to the dairy title of H.R. 2854. The existing dairy title 
would increase the cost of dairy products to consumers. It would also 
increase the cost to taxpayers for certain hunger assistance programs, 
such as the program helping women, infants, and children.
  Therefore, it is my hope that the amending process on the House floor 
and the subsequent conference with the Senate will result in a bill 
that the President can sign and that will help farmers, consumers, and 
needy people here and abroad.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Sanibel, FL [Mr. Goss], a very valuable member of the Committee on 
Rules, like a right arm to me.

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  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Glens Falls, the 
distinguished chairman of the Rules Committee, for yielding me this 
time. Mr. Speaker, I'm pleased to rise in support of this very fair and 
comprehensive rule for the consideration of H.R. 2854, the Agricultural 
Market Transition Program. There are two critical factors that went 
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  Time is of the essence--the President's veto of the Balanced Budget 
Act has left farmers in the lurch, forcing us to expedite the process 
here on the House floor at this late February date.
  The second principle that went into forging the rule is that a debate 
about the fundamental principles behind our farm programs is desirable 
and healthy at this point. We are on the verge of approving a 7-year 
authorization for most major commodity programs, tobacco being a 
notable exception. We need to be sure we know where American farmers 
and consumers are headed. As any guide traversing the Everglades will 
tell you, it is far better to consult the map and plot a course before 
setting out across the territory, rather than after you have gotten 
lost.
  Personally, I believe that the time for deep Government involvement 
in agricultural markets ended long ago. I would like to see this 
country move away from this last bastion of central economic planning 
and into a true free-market system that will reward farmers and 
consumers alike. The rule before us allows the House to consider 
important amendments in all the major commodity areas, including rice, 
cotton, wheat, peanuts, dairy, and more. I look forward to supporting 
my colleague from Florida, Dan Miller, on his amendment to gradually 
phase out the sugar price support program--this is an issue of some 
consequence to southwest Floridians. From the jobs point of view and 
consumers point of view and quality of life. The rule also allows for 
amendments dealing with the issue of conservation. In Florida, we have 
learned a lesson about conservation that should be noted nationwide--
without proper environmental stewardship and protection, national 
treasures like the Everglades could literally disappear. An amendment 
to be offered later will provide some much-needed funding for 
Everglades restoration--this is a necessary and responsible step that 
Congress can take on a major environmental issue and I would urge my 
colleagues to support the Foley amendment. While the Rules Committee 
could not possibly make in order all the amendments filed--there were 
74 of them--I am confident that this fair and balanced rule allows for 
a full debate of American farm policy.
  If my colleagues doubt that, I ask them to stay tuned for the next 2 
days because they are going to hear it and see it. It certainly says 
that this rule is worthy of Members' support, and I urge Members' 
support for the rule.
  Mr. HALL of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman 
from Massachusetts [Mr. Moakley], the very distinguished former 
chairman of the Committee on Rules.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from Ohio for yielding 
time to me. I appreciate his participation on this bill.
  Mr. Speaker, this bill is late. This bill is bad. This bill will cost 
American families a lot of money.
  It's also being brought up under a modified closed rule. So there's 
going to be just about nothing we can do to fix it.
  Mr. Speaker, restrictive rules are starting to be pretty regular 
events these days.
  In fact, during the 2d session of the 104th Congress, my Republican 
colleagues have brought up 100-percent restrictive rules. In other 
words, they haven't allowed the House of Representatives to fix a 
single one of their bills this year--and many of them badly needed 
fixing.
  Mr. Speaker, today we have a bill that gives handouts to large 
corporations while it takes away the safety net for family farmers. 
It's welfare for the rich and fertilizer for the rest.
  Mr. Speaker, I want to point out to my colleagues a very serious 
problem with this rule that will hurt American consumers, especially 
families with children. This rule contains a nonfat milk solid unfunded 
mandate on American consumers to the tune of $400 million a year.
  Under this bill, milk prices will go up, possibly as high as 40 cents 
a gallon. This huge increase in milk prices will raise costs for 
families with children, it will mean that food stamps are worth less, 
it will mean that WIC does less for expectant mothers, and that school 
lunch programs have to pay more to get less.
  I don't believe we were sent to Washington to do that.
  Many of my colleagues may remember the 8 days last January my 
Republican colleagues promised an end to unfunded mandates which tell 
businesses what to do but don't give them the money to pay for it.
  Now, given what my Republican colleagues promised last January, we 
should be able to do something about this. We should be able to strike 
this milk solid mandate and save American families the 40 cents a 
gallon they'll soon be paying at the cash register.
  But this rule says no. This rule says--remember that issue that was 
so important last year? Well, it's not so important anymore. This rule 
takes the much-ballyhooed rules change giving Members the right to 
strike unfunded mandates and throws it out the window.
  Specifically it prevents Members from offering motions to strike 
Federal unfunded mandates which CBO says will cost American consumers 
$3.6 billion over the next 7 years.
  So if my colleagues like the idea of the American people anteing up 
at the grocery store to pay for this ridiculous milk solid idea; if my 
colleagues have changed their opposition to unfunded mandates; they 
should support this rule. If not, I urge them to oppose this rule. 
Let's break the 100-percent restrictive rules record and help American 
consumers while we're at it.
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, the previous speaker is one of my best 
friends, but one could sure tell he does not know much about cows. 
Maybe there are not any in downtown Boston. They have some other good 
things over in Boston, though.
  The next speaker I am going to recognize came to this Congress with 
me 18 years ago, and I just cannot understand why he has not changed a 
bit. It must be something to do with the milk he drinks up at Fond du 
Lac, WI, but he is a great Member of this body. He and I agree on 99.44 
percent of everything except maybe milk.
   Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. 
Petri].
  Mr. PETRI. Mr. Speaker, the only thing is that both of our heads of 
hair are getting to look a little bit more like a nice white glass of 
milk.
   Mr. Speaker, in all the years the Democrats controlled the House, 
every farm bill came up under an open rule. A year ago my party took 
over with grand promises of greater openness. And now we are presented 
with the first-ever closed rule on a farm bill.
  Seventy-odd amendments were submitted to Rules and only 16 are 
allowed.
  I sought, together with several of my colleagues, to offer an 
amendment to phase out the Federal dairy program, of which my own 
district is probably the third largest beneficiary in the country.
  The dairy program is the most byzantine Soviet style price fixing 
scheme in the entire Federal Government. Even many of my dairy farmer 
constituents are prepared to kill this monstrosity because they know it 
is completely unnecessary and even harmful to their industry.
  If we cannot kill this program with leadership from the heart of 
dairy country, what can we kill?
  I have been working on this effort for the past year, and my 
amendment is supported by a wide array of pro-free-market, pro-
taxpayer, pro-consumer, and industry groups running clear across the 
political spectrum. And now this rule tells me I cannot offer it.
  Don't we Republicans believe in openness? Don't we believe in free 
markets? Don't we believe in deregulation? Don't we believe in smaller 
government? Don't we believe in balancing the budget?
  Whatever happened to all these principles? I will tell you what 
happened. They are all being trampled under the heel of this rule.
  I urge all my colleagues to vote against this profoundly embarrassing 
closed rule.
  Mr. HALL of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman 
from Wisconsin [Mr. Obey], the once and future chairman of the 
Committee on Appropriations.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I would urge Members to vote against this rule 
and against this bill. This is probably the worst farm bill to have hit 
the floor of the House in the last 25 years.
  I especially want to address myself to dairy. I do not know if 
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aware of it, but under the rules which have applied in this country 
since roughly 1934, if you are a dairy farmer and live in Florida, you 
are paid, courtesy of the Government milk marketing order system, about 
$3 more for 100 pounds of milk than you are paid if you live in 
Wisconsin. I do not think that makes any sense. Yet this bill today is 
going to see to it that that system continues far longer than it ought 
to.
  My friend, the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Gunderson] tried to 
provide a compromise approach to the dairy milk marketing order 
situation, which tried to end that ridiculous milk marketing order 
system within 2 years. Unfortunately, it did not accomplish its goal. 
So, in my view, the Gunderson amendment is well-intentioned but 
ineffective. But now, to make matters worse, the Committee on Rules has 
allowed the amendment to be offered by the gentleman from New York, 
[Mr. Solomon], the chairman of the Committee on Rules, which will 
retain that existing, ridiculously stupid milk marketing order system 
for 4 years. And there is virtually no mechanism in the bill by which 
we can end that outrage.
  There is absolutely no reasonable public policy reason why a farmer 
from one part of the country should get $3 more for 100 pounds of milk 
than they get in another part of the country. And in my view, the 
amendment that Mr. Solomon offers is going to make the situation worse.
  It seems to me that this bill, with the limited number of amendments 
that are being allowed, this bill amounts to nothing more than a rip-
off of taxpayers and a kiss-off for most upper Midwest dairy farmers. I 
am not going to have any choice but to vote against the rule, to vote 
against the Solomon amendment, to vote against the entire bill, 
because, frankly, this farm bill is a turkey. And what ought to happen 
to it is what happens to most turkeys on Thanksgiving. It ought to be 
devoured. It should not be passed by a respectable legislative body.
  I would urge Members to vote against the bill. If the Committee on 
Agriculture cannot do better than this, it ought to be disbanded.
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Let me just say to the previous speaker that if we do not end up with 
a farm bill, we are not going to have any corn to feed the turkeys and 
there will not be any Thanksgiving. So on behalf of Thanksgiving, come 
over here and vote for this bill and let us get it passed into law.
  Let me also take exception to my two good friends that just spoke, 
one is a Republican from Wisconsin and another is a Democrat from 
Wisconsin. Let me just tell them that I would assume that the chairman 
of the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry, who is also from 
Wisconsin, wrote the dairy title that is in this bill. I would assume 
it has been written to their satisfaction. But now I hear a lot of 
opposition to it, and the opposition to my attempt to change it.
  Let me tell my colleagues how I attempt to change it. All of the 
organizations that I know, whether they be conservative people that 
want government off the backs and out of the pockets of the American 
people or whether they are consumer groups that want to make sure that 
prices do not skyrocket from legislation passed by this Congress, they 
all support the Solomon amendment. Members will see that later on this 
evening when the Solomon amendment comes up.
  Why is that? It is because the Solomon amendment takes a commodity 
called dairy and phases government subsidies out of it completely. If 
the Solomon amendment is adopted, it is the only commodity that will be 
totally phased out of government subsidies no longer supported by the 
taxpayer. That is what the Solomon amendment does.
  Second, the Solomon amendment changes the language in the current 
dairy title which Secretary Glickman, on the other side of the aisle, 
Secretary of Agriculture, told me in a letter yesterday, and which all 
of the consumer groups are telling me today, that if the dairy title 
stays as it is, it will increase the cost of school lunches and food 
stamps by $1 billion. That means the taxpayers have got to come up with 
an additional $1 billion to pay for school lunches and food stamps. 
That is if the dairy title stays the same.

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  If the Solomon amendment is adopted, it does not raise it one nickel.
  WIC. If the dairy title stays in effect the way it is, it will 
deprive 80,000 people of the services of WIC, 80,000. The Solomon 
amendment will not deprive one.
  I am not going to get into it further; we will discuss it when we 
take up the amendment itself. But those are the differences between the 
Solomon amendment and between the existing dairy title.
  Now, why was the Solomon amendment made in order? You might say, 
well, because he was the chairman of the Committee on Rules and has a 
little weight up there, and that might have something to do with it. 
But the truth of the matter is that whether you are talking about sugar 
or peanuts or cotton or dairy or conservation, what we have done is 
make in order one amendment on each of those that would be an opposite 
views of what is in the bill. Those that want to abolish all sugar 
subsidies have their right on the floor. So we have been as fair as we 
possibly can. Certainly, we are not going to make in order two 
Wisconsin amendments to an already Wisconsin dairy bill; we just could 
not do that, because that would not be fair then to the rest of the 
country.
  So let us be fair about it. We have been fair about it. I urge you to 
support the rule and the bill itself.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. HALL of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman 
from Massachusetts [Mr. Frank].
  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, I rise in a moment of some 
solemnity because it is always tragic when something dies young, and 
the one piece of legislation from the Contract With America, the 
unfunded mandates bill, it had a very short life because one of the 
things we heard last year that was very important was to prevent 
Congress from imposing unfunded mandates on the private sector. This 
legislation, according to the Congressional Budget Office, and let me 
read what the Congressional Budget office says:

       CBO has determined that enacting this bill would impose 
     private sector mandates, as defined in Public Law 104-4, an 
     attachment to proviso analysis. According to CBO, over the 
     life of this bill, $3.6 billion in unfunded mandates are 
     imposed on the private sector.

  The CBO says some of this increase will be passed on to users of 
sugar and sugar-containing products in the United States, most of us 
believe.
  Another point: ``The bulk of such costs will be passed on to 
consumers in higher prices for fluid milk.'' So we have a bill that is 
going to raise sugar products, raise milk prices. It is an unfunded 
mandate, and the Contract With America that was alluded to, the 
gentleman from New York said this was just a continuation of the Reagan 
revolution, which was interpreted, apparently, by George Bush, as I got 
the chronology. We had the Reagan revolution. George Bush came around, 
and it got kind of sidetracked, but Mr. Gingrich came out and put it 
back in. But what did he say? He said that there would be, under the 
rule, if the Congress passed an unfunded mandate bill on the private 
sector, as this bill is, according to CBO, then under this scheme any 
Member could get up on the floor and demand a separate vote on those 
unfunded mandates.
  Now CBO says this bill has many unfunded mandates. The unfunded 
mandate bill we passed last year says if such a bill comes forward, any 
Member can get up and demand a separate vote. But the Committee on 
Rules waived it.
  So the first time the unfunded mandates bill was relevant to 
legislation, the Committee on Rules made it go away. So the poor 
Contract With America barely is 2 months old, and out it goes. 
Apparently, the most important part of the Contract With America was 
the escape clause because the Republicans have just escaped the rules.
  It reminds me, actually, the Contract of America, apparently this 
unfunded mandate business, of Groucho and Chico Marx in ``Coconuts,'' I 
think it was, where they were going over the contract, where they were 
going over this clause and that clause, and Chico says to Groucho, 
``What's this clause?''

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  says, ``You cannot fool me, there ain't no sanity clause.''
  Apparently, there ``ain't'' no unfunded mandates provision either. 
But there is a sanity clause.
  As my friend, the once and future chairman of the Committee on Rules, 
pointed out, this bill has got a lot of sanity clause provisions for 
farmers. One of the things that continues to impress me is the fact 
that my conservative colleagues, the believers in the free market, 
stand on their own two feet, get the government off of people's backs, 
get the government's hands out of our pockets, let the market govern; 
somewhere they have found a footnote in all those conservative texts 
that say, ``But not for agriculture, not for peanuts, not for sugar, 
not for milk, not for tobacco.'' But that we will get into with the 
bill.
  The key point that has to be stressed is this: The one substantive 
piece of legislation affecting the general public that went through 
under the Contract of America was the unfunded mandates bill. Under the 
unfunded mandates bill, which I voted for, we should be having 
automatically separate votes on the billions of dollars of unfunded 
mandates this agricultural bill imposes on the private sector of 
America. And we will not have any such votes because the Committee on 
Rules waived the provision.
  So people should understand that the Contract With America, the first 
time anything was relevant to the Contract With America came before us, 
the Republican Party decided to break the contract. Maybe the American 
people ought to respond next November.
  Mr. HALL of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman 
from Texas [Mr. de la Garza].
  Mr. de la GARZA. Mr. Speaker and my colleagues, I rise in opposition 
to the rule. Regardless of the amendments and regardless of the pros 
and the cons, I am concerned with the process, and I have, throughout 
these meetings, have disagreed with the process that no bill came out 
of the Committee on Agriculture in the beginning. It was taken, picked 
from the air and put into the reconciliation bill, the one that was 
vetoed by the President.
  Let me mention here a lot of colleagues on the other side are saying 
the President vetoed a farm bill. He did not. He vetoed that whole mess 
that was a reconciliation bill. But let me say that I am not satisfied 
that we have followed a fair process--all of my tenure here in this 
Congress, 32 years, we have had bipartisanship, we have come out of the 
committee, disagreement here, disagreement there, but we have come out 
of the committee with a product from the committee. This is not a 
product from the committee. It has come from other sources for other 
reasons that is not a product of the committee.
  The rule does not provide for openness. We have always had open rules 
or the farm bill so that everyone, regardless of how we feel or how 
they feel, has had an opportunity to address the issues in which they 
would be involved or which mattered to them. This has not been done, 
and as a former chairman of the committee, I know there will be 
amendments that I would be opposed to, but I cannot in good conscience 
agree to a rule that limits this Member or that Member.
  This is not a committee bill, this is not a consensus bill, and I 
must oppose the rule.
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Wisconsin [Mr. Gunderson], one of the long-time Members of this body, 
who is the chairman of the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and 
Poultry of the Committee on Agriculture. He and I sometimes disagree on 
the dairy issue, but I would yield him 2 minutes of time.
  (Mr. GUNDERSON asked and was given permission to revise and extend 
his remarks.)
  Mr. GUNDERSON. Mr. Speaker, I was going to withhold my discussions on 
the dairy title until we got into general debate on the amendments 
later today or tomorrow, but as I listened to the rule debate, I think 
there are some things that need to be fully understood.
  The committee proposal on dairy is not the Wisconsin proposal, it is 
not the Midwest proposal, it is certainly not the Steve Gunderson 
proposal. Many of you are well aware that we did try to move toward a 
free market as a part of balanced budget one. Our leadership came to us 
and they said can you find the maximum amount of reform that is 
politically acceptable? And so we did that. We have spent the last 2 
months working with literally every region of the country to bring 
about as close to a national consensus as you will ever get the dairy 
industry to have in terms of reform. That is what is in the committee 
bill.
  And I think it is also important to understand when we talk about all 
these charges about what this bill is going to do to consumers, let us 
ask USDA. USDA does not talk about a billion-dollar impact on feeding 
programs; USDA says someplace between $4 to $500 million if we keep the 
California standards and mandate them for the entire country.
  Now, everybody knows there has to be modification in the California 
standards in conference. The Senate has nothing. We know we have got to 
modify that area. Frankly, we have pledged, we have pledged to certain 
people we will make some modifications in that area. They know that, 
but they do not want to tell the truth, and that is not the gentleman 
from New York I am referring to. I am referring to the large 
manufacturing side of this industry, which has one goal: They want to 
keep the price support program in effect, they want to keep butter and 
powder on support for at least 5 years so we cannot use GATT and get 
into the world dairy market and become a market-oriented dairy economy 
so that prices depress, farmers produce more milk trying to survive, 
and then all of a sudden they can buy cheap milk.
  This is not something being done out of the benevolent hearts of the 
large corporations for the poor farmers or poor consumers. Let us 
understand their motive in this one, my colleagues. Look at the 
committee bill. It is a delicate compromise which responds to every 
region of the country.
  Mr. HALL of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman 
from Missouri [Mr. Volkmer].
  (Mr. VOLKMER asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. VOLKMER. Mr. Speaker, I too rise in strong opposition to this 
rule.
  I know the gentleman from New York [Mr. Solomon], the chairman of the 
committee, gave me one of my eight amendments, but it is not the one 
that I asked for; well, it is not the one I asked for, but that is all 
right. But the point is, and I think you go back to historical 
significance, this is a first time since I have been in this Congress, 
and I am now in my 20th year, that we have ever had a modified rule or 
semiclosed rule or closed rule on any farm bill. I was here in 1977, 
1981, 1985, and 1990. Every year was an open rule. That is under 
Democrats, not under Republicans. The Republicans say, no, you cannot 
have all those amendments.
  There were 74, if I remember right, 74 or 75, that were noticed to 
the Committee on Rules. I have looked at most of those amendments, and, 
to be honest with you, many of them are very important. Those are ideas 
that a Member of this Congress came here about agriculture, and he 
wanted to be able to bring it up, or he or she, on this floor when we 
had the farm bill.
  But the great wisdom of the Committee on Rules, the chairman of the 
Committee on Rules says, no, that idea just is not any good, we are not 
going to accept it. You do not have the right to come to this floor and 
offer your amendment.
  That is what the Committee on Rules is telling Members of this 
Congress: They no longer have a right to offer legitimate amendments, 
and I think that is terrible.
  What is that doing to the House of Representatives? It is no longer a 
democracy in this House of Representatives. The U.S. House of 
Representatives is now under autocratic rule, more like a dictatorship. 
We are not going to have the full debate on legislation on this floor. 
We are only going to debate the things we want to be debated. We are 
going to let them do a few things, but they cannot have full time to 
debate.
  Now in the past it has taken over a week to do a farm bill. They are 
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they are not going to let Members fully debate their amendments.
  I strongly oppose the rule, and I strongly oppose the bill.
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Ohio [Mr. Boehner], the chairman of the Republican conference and 
member of the Committee on Agriculture, one of the most respected 
Members of this body.
  Mr. BOEHNER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman of the Rules Committee 
for yielding this time to me, and suggest to the Members that we have 
coming before us today the most sweeping change in ag policy that we 
have seen in 60 years. We make real reforms in ag policy to try to move 
agriculture in this country from a government-run supply control supply 
management program to more market orientation than we have seen again 
in 60 years.
  Now, we tried to bring this bill up about 3 weeks ago, and the 
gentleman who just spoke and preceded me, the gentleman from Missouri 
[Mr. Volkmer], did everything he could to prevent the bill from coming 
to the floor. Now the gentleman from Missouri and all of us understand 
in ag country the farmers and bankers need to understand what the 
program is going to be because the Government ag program died last 
September 30, and so it is of utmost urgency that we move this bill 
through this House.
  Now, the Committee on Rules, and working with Members from both sides 
of the aisle, have allowed some 15 or 16 amendments to be brought to 
the floor for debate. I believe there is ample time over the next 2 
days to debate this fully and to represent all of the interests and 
concerns of all of the Members, and so I think that we have before us a 
good rule, and I would urge my colleagues to support it.

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  Mr. HALL of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the 
gentleman from North Dakota [Mr. Pomeroy].
  Mr. POMEROY. Mr. Speaker, I want to begin my remarks by responding 
directly to the comments of the preceding speaker. He talks about the 
sweeping reforms contained in this farm bill. He is right, there are 
sweeping reforms. All the more important that we fully debate, that we 
consider alternatives.
  This new majority has taken another tack. They say ``No, we have to 
do it our way, or you have to do it no way.'' That is no way to develop 
policy regarding a very fundamentally important policy for agriculture 
in this country.
  Second, he suggests that here we are at the end of February 1996, 
without a farm bill, and that is because the minority somehow prevented 
this body from developing a new farm bill. What bull that is. Come on. 
They failed to meet the demand of getting a new farm bill in place in 
1995, they failed to bring it up in a timely manner in January 1996; 
they took February off, for gosh sakes, against the opposition of 
virtually every Member on this side of the aisle. And to have the 
temerity to suggest that somehow this debacle is the fault of the 
minority is a bit much.
  Mr. Speaker, there is a real problem with this rule. It does not 
allow alternatives to be considered, and the fatal flaw of the freedom 
to farm legislation is that it eliminates the safety net for farmers. 
Farmers have two risks they cannot control, Mr. Speaker. They cannot 
control falling prices and they cannot control production losses. The 
Freedom-To-Farm Act addresses neither of those risks. In fact, it 
phases out the protections that have kept family farmers in the 
business of farming for decades.

  I had an amendment which would have allowed the freedom-to-farm 
payments in the first 2 years, but moved in a strong marketing loan 
program providing some protection against falling prices for farmers 
over the second 5 years of the program. I am bitterly disappointed that 
that was not made in order. I think it was an extraordinarily important 
alternative to be considered.
  Mr. Speaker, I want to quote the chairman of the Committee on Rules 
on preceding comments he has made about closed rules. He says: ``Mr. 
Speaker, sometimes it is hard to convey to the average citizen what the 
fuss about restricted rules is all about, but when you are telling them 
they are being robbed of their full right to representation in the 
House of Representatives because a committee says their Congressman 
cannot offer amendments, they begin to see things in a different 
light;'' the gentleman from New York, Jerry Solomon, April 28, 1993. 
Then in closing he says, in a debate in March 1993, Jerry Solomon, 
chairman of the Committee on Rules, he says: ``To paraphrase the real 
One Book, by your gag rules, you shall be known and reviled.'' That 
applies to the new majority in this instance with crystal clarity.
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I just am compelled to respond a little bit. As I look 
at this bill before us, this is the farm bill that was in the Balanced 
Budget Act. Who vetoed the Balanced Budget Act? President Clinton. If 
he has signed it, this bill would become law today.
  Mr. Speaker, I think it is important to set the record straight about 
the glorious past the Democrats are attempting to paint here, based on 
the gentleman's previous comments. We have been told that the last farm 
rule in 1990 was an open rule. In fact, it was what I would call 
modified open in that it required preprinting of amendments. However, 
the rule closed title 20 of the farm bill to any amendments.
  Moreover, after the amendment process had gone on for 2 weeks, the 
Rules Committee produced a second, modified closed rule, to limit 
debate on the remaining amendments that had been printed in the Record.
  So, we do learn from the past, even if some would attempt to paint a 
rosier picture of it than existed.
  Finally, for those who yearn for those glorious days of open rules 
under the Democrats, let me point out that so far in this Congress 64 
percent of our rules have been open or modified open compared to just 
44 percent under the Democrats in the last Congress.
  So you have it much better in the Congress today than you have ever 
had it before. That is because I am going to see to it, we are going to 
try to make these as fair and open as we can. Watch what happens in the 
next several weeks as far as open rules are concerned.
  Mr. Speaker, I include for the Record a summary of the amendment 
process on the 1990 farm bill (H.R. 3950).
  The material referred to is as follows:

   Summary of the Amendment Process on the 1990 Farm Bill (H.R. 3950)

       On July 20, 1990, the Rules Committee reported a modified 
     open rule (H. Res. 439) for consideration of the ``Food and 
     Agricultural Resources Act of 1990,'' H.R. 3950, requiring 
     only that amendments must be pre-printed in the Congressional 
     Record on or before July 20th.
       The rule provided for three and one-half hours of general 
     debate--two hours to the Ag Committee, and 30 minutes each to 
     the Ways and Means, Foreign Affairs and Education and Labor 
     committees. The rule made in order the Ag Committee 
     substitute as base text for amendment purposes, as modified 
     by amendments printed in the Rules Committee's report. The 
     rule also permitted the Ag Committee chairman to offer en 
     bloc amendments consisting of pre-printed amendments or 
     germane modifications thereof. The rule permitted Rep. 
     Gejdenson to offer an amendment to title XII (not printed in 
     the report) and waived all points of order against it. The 
     rule made in order an amendment printed in section 3 of the 
     report on the rule that was not subject to amendment except 
     by Rep. Panetta. Finally, the rule prohibited any amendments 
     to title XIX of the bill.
       On July 23rd, the rule was adopted, 293 to 80, and the 
     House completed general debate. The rule was then considered 
     for amendment over an additional six day period: July 24, 25, 
     27, 30, 31, and August 1. On August 1st the House passed the 
     bill by a vote of 327-91.
       All told, some 49 amendments were offered and voted--14 on 
     rollcall votes and 35 on voice votes. Of the 49 amendments 
     offered, 37 were offered by Democrats and just 12 were 
     offered by Republicans. In addition, one Democrat and two 
     Republican amendments were withdrawn, and points of order 
     were sustained against two other Republican amendments. A 
     total of 38 of the 49 amendments offered were adopted--most 
     by voice vote. Of the 11 amendments not adopted, 7 were 
     defeated on recorded votes. (The Madigan motion to recommit 
     with instructions to limit certain benefits were rejected on 
     a division vote of 38 to 92.)
       Note.--It should be noted that on July 31st the Rules 
     Committee reported a second rule (H. Res. 444) on the bill 
     that limited debate time on four specified amendments (Conte, 
     20 minutes; Conte 60 minutes; Stenholm, 20 minutes and a De 
     Fazio amendment to Stenholm, 20 minutes; and Frenzel, 40 
     minutes. Moreover, the rule limited debate time on any 
     further en bloc amendments by the chairman and any other 
     amendments pre-printed in the Record to not more than 10 
     minutes each.

  Mr. POMEROY. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield? 
  
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  Mr. SOLOMON. I yield to the gentleman from North Dakota.
  Mr. POMEROY. I thank the chairman for yielding. He is a man I 
respect, and I think he has made excellent points while he was a 
minority Member about opening up this place.
  Mr. SOLOMON. I am going to.
  Mr. POMEROY. Mr. Speaker, I have in my hand the Congressional Record 
of the consideration of the rules from the preceding farm bills back to 
1965. By my reading, none has been considered under a rule as 
restrictive as the one considered today.
  Second, your statistics about whatever number of rules are open 
versus closed is of no consequences to North Dakota, when the farm bill 
is up under a closed rule. Agriculture in North Dakota is better than 
half of our economy. This is the big kahuna. This is the most important 
legislation that this body will consider relative to my State, and you 
have not allowed me to offer an important alternative to the freedom to 
farm bill. We deserve better, Mr. Speaker. I hope my colleagues vote 
down this rule.
  Mr. HALL of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I include certain extraneous material 
at this point in the Record. This has to do with the various rules that 
have come to the floor in this past session relative to closed rules. 
As a matter of fact, it affects all rules.
  The material referred to is as follows:

                FLOOR PROCEDURE IN THE 104TH CONGRESS; COMPILED BY THE RULES COMMITTEE DEMOCRATS                
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                          Process used for floor   Amendments in
            Bill No.                    Title           Resolution No.         consideration           order    
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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).                         

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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.                       
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 of             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.                       

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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.                                  
H.R. 1788......................  Amtrak Reform and   H. Res. 289          Open; waives all                  N/A.
                                  Privatization Act                        points of order                      
                                  of 1995.                                 against the bill's                   
                                                                           consideration; makes                 
                                                                           in order the                         
                                                                           Transportation                       
                                                                           substitute modified                  
                                                                           by the amend in the                  
                                                                           report; Bill read by                 
                                                                           title; waives all                    
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           substitute; makes in                 
                                                                           order a managers                     
                                                                           amend as the first                   
                                                                           order of business, if                
                                                                           adopted it is                        
                                                                           considered base text                 
                                                                           (10 min.); waives all                
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           amendment; Pre-                      
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           priority.                            
H.R. 1350......................  Maritime Security   H. Res. 287          Open; makes in order              N/A.
                                  Act of 1995.                             the committee                        
                                                                           substitute as                        
                                                                           original text; makes                 
                                                                           in order a managers                  
                                                                           amendment which if                   
                                                                           adopted is considered                
                                                                           as original text (20                 
                                                                           min.) unamendable;                   
                                                                           pre-printing gets                    
                                                                           priority.                            
H.R. 2621......................  To Protect Federal  H. Res. 293          Closed; provides for              N/A.
                                  Trust Funds.                             the adoption of the                  
                                                                           Ways & Means                         
                                                                           amendment printed in                 
                                                                           the report. 1 hr. of                 
                                                                           general debate.                      
H.R. 1745......................  Utah Public Lands   H. Res. 303          Open; waives cl                   N/A.
                                  Management Act of                        2(l)(6) of rule XI                   
                                  1995.                                    and sections 302(f)                  
                                                                           and 311(a) of the                    
                                                                           Budget Act against                   
                                                                           the bill's                           
                                                                           consideration. Makes                 
                                                                           in order the                         
                                                                           Resources substitute                 
                                                                           as base text and                     
                                                                           waives cl 7 of rule                  
                                                                           XVI and sections                     
                                                                           302(f) and 308(a) of                 
                                                                           the Budget Act; makes                
                                                                           in order a managers'                 
                                                                           amend as the first                   
                                                                           order of business, if                
                                                                           adopted it is                        
                                                                           considered base text                 
                                                                           (10 min).                            
H. Res. 304....................  Providing for       N/A                  Closed; makes in order          1D; 2R
                                  Debate and                               three resolutions;                   
                                  Consideration of                         H.R. 2770 (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 Speakers 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 quesetion is                
                                                                           considered as ordered.               
H.R. 2924......................  Social Security     H. Res. 355          Closed................            N/A.
                                  Guarantee Act.                                                                
H.R. 2854......................  The Agricultural    H. Res. 366          Restrictive; waives          5D; 9R; 2
                                  Market Transition                        all points of order       Bipartisan.
                                  Program.                                 against the bill; 2                  
                                                                           hrs. of general                      
                                                                           debate; makes in                     
                                                                           order a committee                    
                                                                           substitute as                        
                                                                           original text and                    
                                                                           waives all points of                 
                                                                           order against the                    
                                                                           substitute; makes in                 
                                                                           order only the 16                    
                                                                           amends printed in the                
                                                                           report and waives all                
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           amendments;                          
                                                                           circumvents unfunded                 
                                                                           mandates law;                        
                                                                           Chairman has en bloc                 
                                                                           authority for amends                 
                                                                           in report (20 min.)                  
                                                                           on each en bloc.                     
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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. HALL of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the 
gentleman from California [Mr. Farr].
  Mr. FARR of California. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for 
yielding time to me.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise with great concern about the debate we are about 
to have. Most people do not understand what this debate is all about. 
It is about the rules that allow the amendments to come to the floor. 
It is as simple as that. The issue here is whether you will have an 
open rule which allows any amendments to be brought up, or will you 
have a closed rule or a modified closed rule, which allows very few or 
no amendments.
  What alarms me, and I wish the alarms would go off in this building 
for the people who are sitting here in the gallery, those who are 
watching, those who are wandering around, it is that this building 
represents democracy in the United States. It says this is the great 
hall where people can debate all issues.
  But I will tell you, on this farm bill, which is one of the most 
important bills we have to debate in Congress, because agriculture 
touches every State, and it touches each differently; some States grow 
sugar cane, some States grow peanuts, some States grow coffee, some 
States grow artichokes, some States grow wheat, some States grow corn, 
some States grow cows, some States grow pigs and sheep, but no State 
does it all.
  So this is the bill that touches America and the greatness of 
America, and yet the process we are using denies public access. It 
denies the debate that we ought to have, that says look, there were 74 
amendments presented to the Committee on Rules, and only 15 of them 
were allowed to come to the floor; 15 allowed to come to the floor on a 
bill that has never had public input. This process is denying people 
access to their government, and that may be denied on the Senate side, 
but the Constitution protects this hall and this House. That 
Constitution says that this is the people's House.
  You have to reject rules like this, because what is going to happen 
is the end product is not going to be trusted by the people. It is not 
just the laws we make and we put into the books, it is the confidence 
that we have to build with the American public that what we are doing 
here is right and just.
  This is a controversial bill. People do not understand commodity 
programs. This is not a freedom to farm act, this is how we regulate 
commodities. Indeed, if we are going to have any trust in that, we will 
have to build that trust by open rules, not closed rules.
  It is said about sausages, if we are talking about the farm bill and 
what goes into sausages, that if you like laws and sausages, you should 
never watch either of them being made. Mr. Speaker, reject this rule. 
It is anti-everything this House stands for under our Constitution.
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
West Palm Beach, FL [Mr. Foley], a new Member of this body, and an 
outstanding Member.
  Mr. FOLEY. Mr. Speaker, let me thank the gentleman for yielding time 
to me, and commend the Committee on Rules and its chairman for fair 
consideration of over 70 amendments on this bill. Why is it fair? It 
makes in order five Democratic amendments. It makes in order five 
Republican amendments. It makes in order four bipartisan 

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amendments. I think it has been extremely fair for all sides, both 
sides of the aisle, and any Member who has interests in agriculture.
  We talk about delay. Count up the number of quorum calls, motions to 
adjourn, motions to rise, and recorded Journal votes required by the 
minority in the first 100 days of Congress. Talk about why we are 
waiting until February to consider some important legislation. That 
will give you a significant answer.
  One of the amendments is extremely important to restoring one of this 
Nation's true environmental treasures, the Florida Everglades. The rule 
makes in order my amendment, which will provide $210 million for the 
purpose of environmental restoration in the Everglades, a provision 
similar to that which has already passed in the Senate bill.
  Let us make one thing perfectly clear. We would not be in a position 
today where this type of structured rule would be necessary had the 
President not vetoed the balanced budget bill placed on his desk last 
year. In addition to putting the future of this country at risk by 
jeopardizing the financial security for future generations with his 
veto, the President's actions made planting decisions for farmers in 
rural America extremely difficult due to the expiration of most of this 
country's agricultural policies.
  This rule that is being debated today will ensure the timely passage 
of this bill so that farmers and ranchers can make decisions they need 
to make and provide America with the safest, cheapest, most abundant 
food supply in the world. I ask my colleagues to support this very fair 
rule.
  Mr. HALL of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I have no further requests for time on 
this rule. I would urge certainly a ``no'' vote on the previous 
question. If the ``no'' vote prevails, I would offer an amendment 
immediately to pass an open rule on the agriculture bill that is before 
us.
  With that, Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. 
I will close for the majority.
  Mr. Speaker, let me respond to my good friend, the gentleman from 
Massachusetts [Mr. Frank]. The unfunded mandate law that he is talking 
about does not prohibit unfunded mandates. It simply requires that such 
mandates be identified in the committee report, which the committee has 
done, so that the House can determine whether to support or whether to 
oppose them. That is the way the law was written.
  The committee has complied with the mandate law by identifying the 
private sector mandates in its report. That is in the report. The law 
does not provide for a separate vote on such private sector mandates. 
That is not in the law. That is only public sector. Only the public 
sector mandates require a separate vote. Certainly if there were any in 
here, and it has been flagged by CBO, then we would be having those 
separate votes. Since there are no public sector mandates in the bill, 
we are not denying any separate votes at all.
  The Committee on Agriculture has complied with the unfunded mandate 
law, and so has the Committee on Rules. If anyone has any question 
beyond that, they can always ask for votes as they see fit.
  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. SOLOMON. I yield to the gentleman from Massachusetts.
  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. First, Mr. Speaker, my understanding is 
that the legislation did say that there should be a separate vote on a 
private sector unfunded mandate unless the Committee on Rules waived 
it. I understand the Committee on Rules can waive it. But what the 
gentleman has now said is people should understand what this great big 
unfunded mandate bill comes down to.
  It does not mean there will not be any unfunded mandates on the 
private sector, apparently. It does not mean we will even have to 
automatically vote on each unfunded mandate. The great contract reform 
on unfunded mandates for the private citizens come down to this: We 
will not do an unfunded mandate on you for several billion dollars 
unless we put it in the committee report. I am sure the American people 
will feel very reassured and protected that they know that there will 
not be any more unfunded mandates unless they are mentioned in a 
committee report. Congratulations on a great legislative 
accomplishment.
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, let me just say that the Committee on 
Agriculture has complied with the unfunded mandate law. So has the 
Committee on Rules.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and I move the 
previous question on the resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Kingston). 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. HALL of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I object to the vote on the ground 
that a quorum is not present and make the point of order that a quorum 
is not present.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Evidently a quorum is not present.
  The Sergeant at Arms will notify absent Members.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 228, 
nays 182, not voting 21, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 31]

                               YEAS--228

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

                               NAYS--182

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Andrews
     Baesler
     Baldacci
     Barcia
     Barrett (WI)
     Becerra
     Beilenson
     Bentsen
     Berman
     Bevill
     Bishop
     Bonior
     Borski
     Boucher
     Brewster
     Browder
     Brown (CA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brown (OH)
     Cardin
     Clay
     Clayton
     Clement
     Clyburn
     Coleman
     Collins (MI)
     Condit
     Conyers
     Costello
     Coyne
     Cramer
     Danner
     de la Garza
     DeFazio
     DeLauro
     Dellums
     Deutsch
     Dingell
     Dixon
     Doggett
     Dooley
     Doyle
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Eshoo
     Evans
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fazio
     Fields (LA)
     Filner
     Flake
     Foglietta
     Ford
     Frank (MA)
     Frost
     Gejdenson
     Gephardt
     Geren
     Gibbons
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green
     Gutierrez
     Hall (OH)
     Hall (TX)
     Hastings (FL)
     Hefner
     Hilliard
     Hinchey
     Holden
     Hoyer
     Jackson (IL)
     Jacobs
     Jefferson
     Johnson (SD)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnston
     Kanjorski
     
[[Page H1414]]

     Kaptur
     Kennedy (MA)
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kennelly
     Kildee
     Kleczka
     Klink
     LaFalce
     Lantos
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lincoln
     Lipinski
     Lofgren
     Lowey
     Luther
     Maloney
     Manton
     Markey
     Martinez
     Mascara
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McDermott
     McHale
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek
     Menendez
     Miller (CA)
     Minge
     Mink
     Moakley
     Mollohan
     Moran
     Murtha
     Nadler
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Orton
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pastor
     Payne (NJ)
     Payne (VA)
     Pelosi
     Peterson (FL)
     Peterson (MN)
     Petri
     Pickett
     Pomeroy
     Poshard
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reed
     Richardson
     Rivers
     Roemer
     Roybal-Allard
     Sabo
     Sanders
     Sawyer
     Schiff
     Schroeder
     Schumer
     Scott
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Skaggs
     Skeen
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Spratt
     Stark
     Stenholm
     Studds
     Stupak
     Tanner
     Taylor (MS)
     Tejeda
     Thompson
     Thornton
     Thurman
     Torres
     Towns
     Velazquez
     Vento
     Visclosky
     Volkmer
     Ward
     Waters
     Watt (NC)
     Waxman
     Williams
     Wilson
     Wise
     Woolsey
     Wynn
     Yates

                             NOT VOTING--21

     Bryant (TN)
     Bryant (TX)
     Chapman
     Collins (IL)
     Dicks
     Engel
     Furse
     Harman
     Hastings (WA)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     McDade
     McKinney
     Myers
     Neal
     Oxley
     Riggs
     Rose
     Rush
     Seastrand
     Stokes
     Weldon (PA)

                              {time}  1249

  The Clerk announced the following pair:
  On this vote:

       Mr. Riggs for, with Mrs. Collins of Illinois against.

  Messrs. OWENS, SCHIFF, and KENNEDY of Massachusetts, and Ms. KAPTUR 
changed their vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  So the previous question was ordered.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                          personal explanation

  Mrs. SEASTRAND. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 31, due to pressing 
business, I was not able to vote. Had I been present, I would have 
voted ``yea.''
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Kingston). The question is on the 
resolution.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.


                             recorded vote

  Mr. HALL of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 244, 
noes 168, not voting 19, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 32]

                               AYES--244

     Allard
     Archer
     Armey
     Bachus
     Baesler
     Baker (CA)
     Baker (LA)
     Ballenger
     Barr
     Barrett (NE)
     Bartlett
     Barton
     Bass
     Bateman
     Bereuter
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bliley
     Blute
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bono
     Brewster
     Brownback
     Bryant (TN)
     Bunn
     Bunning
     Burr
     Burton
     Buyer
     Callahan
     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
     Fox
     Franks (CT)
     Franks (NJ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Frisa
     Frost
     Funderburk
     Gallegly
     Ganske
     Gekas
     Geren
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Goodlatte
     Goodling
     Goss
     Graham
     Greenwood
     Gunderson
     Gutknecht
     Hall (TX)
     Hamilton
     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
     Kaptur
     Kasich
     Kelly
     Kennedy (MA)
     Kim
     King
     Kingston
     Klug
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     LaHood
     Largent
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Laughlin
     Lazio
     Leach
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Lightfoot
     Linder
     Livingston
     LoBiondo
     Longley
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Maloney
     Manzullo
     Martini
     McCollum
     McCrery
     McDade
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McIntosh
     McKeon
     Metcalf
     Meyers
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Molinari
     Montgomery
     Moorhead
     Morella
     Murtha
     Myrick
     Nethercutt
     Neumann
     Ney
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Oxley
     Packard
     Parker
     Paxon
     Peterson (MN)
     Pombo
     Porter
     Portman
     Pryce
     Quillen
     Quinn
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Roberts
     Rogers
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roukema
     Royce
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Saxton
     Scarborough
     Schaefer
     Schiff
     Schumer
     Seastrand
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Shuster
     Sisisky
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Solomon
     Souder
     Spence
     Stearns
     Stump
     Talent
     Tate
     Tauzin
     Taylor (NC)
     Thomas
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Torricelli
     Traficant
     Upton
     Vucanovich
     Waldholtz
     Walker
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Watts (OK)
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     White
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Williams
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Zeliff

                               NOES--168

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Andrews
     Baldacci
     Barcia
     Barrett (WI)
     Becerra
     Beilenson
     Bentsen
     Berman
     Bevill
     Bishop
     Bonior
     Borski
     Boucher
     Browder
     Brown (CA)
     Brown (OH)
     Cardin
     Clay
     Clayton
     Clement
     Clyburn
     Coleman
     Collins (MI)
     Conyers
     Costello
     Coyne
     Cramer
     Danner
     de la Garza
     DeFazio
     DeLauro
     Dellums
     Deutsch
     Dingell
     Dixon
     Doggett
     Dooley
     Doyle
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Evans
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fazio
     Fields (LA)
     Filner
     Flake
     Foglietta
     Ford
     Frank (MA)
     Gejdenson
     Gibbons
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green
     Gutierrez
     Hall (OH)
     Hastings (FL)
     Hefner
     Hilliard
     Hinchey
     Holden
     Hoyer
     Jackson (IL)
     Jacobs
     Jefferson
     Johnson (SD)
     Johnson, E.B.
     Johnston
     Kanjorski
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kennelly
     Kildee
     Kleczka
     Klink
     LaFalce
     Lantos
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lincoln
     Lipinski
     Lofgren
     Luther
     Manton
     Markey
     Martinez
     Mascara
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McDermott
     McHale
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek
     Menendez
     Miller (CA)
     Minge
     Mink
     Moakley
     Mollohan
     Moran
     Nadler
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Orton
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pastor
     Payne (NJ)
     Payne (VA)
     Pelosi
     Peterson (FL)
     Petri
     Pickett
     Pomeroy
     Poshard
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reed
     Richardson
     Rivers
     Roemer
     Roybal-Allard
     Sabo
     Sanders
     Sawyer
     Schroeder
     Scott
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Skaggs
     Skeen
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Spratt
     Stark
     Stenholm
     Stockman
     Studds
     Stupak
     Tanner
     Taylor (MS)
     Tejeda
     Thompson
     Thornton
     Thurman
     Torkildsen
     Torres
     Towns
     Velazquez
     Vento
     Visclosky
     Volkmer
     Ward
     Waters
     Watt (NC)
     Waxman
     Wise
     Woolsey
     Wynn
     Yates
     Zimmer

                             NOT VOTING--19

     Brown (FL)
     Bryant (TX)
     Chapman
     Collins (IL)
     Dicks
     Furse
     Gephardt
     Harman
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     McKinney
     Myers
     Neal
     Radanovich
     Riggs
     Rose
     Roth
     Rush
     Stokes
     Wilson

                              {time}  1306

  The Clerk announced the following pair:
  On this vote:

       Mr. Riggs for, with Mrs. Collins of Illinois against.

  So the resolution was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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