[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 30 (Thursday, March 7, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H1793-H1808]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 3019, BALANCED BUDGET DOWNPAYMENT 
                                ACT, II

  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I 
call up House Resolution 372 and ask for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                              H. Res. 372

       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. 3019) making appropriations for fiscal year 
     1996 to make a further downpayment toward a balanced budget, 
     and for other purposes. The first reading of the bill shall 
     be dispensed with. General debate shall be confined to the 
     bill and shall not exceed one hour equally divided and 
     controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the 
     Committee on Appropriations. After general debate the bill 
     shall be considered for amendment under the five-minute rule. 
     The amendment printed in section 2 of this resolution shall 
     be considered as adopted in the House and in the Committee of 
     the Whole. The bill, as amended, shall be considered as the 
     original bill for the purpose of further amendment. This 
     bill, as amended, shall be considered as read. No further 
     amendment shall be in order except those specified in the 
     report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this 
     resolution. Each further amendment 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 except as 
     specified in the report, 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 
     specified in the report 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 amendments as 
     may have been adopted. 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. The motion to recommit may include instructions 
     only if offered by the minority leader or his designee.
       Sec. 2. The amendment considered as adopted in the House 
     and in the Committee of the Whole is as follows:
       Page 539, line 16, strike ``specifically addresses the 
     availability of'' and insert in lieu thereof ``expressly 
     makes available for obligation''.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from California [Mr. Dreier] 
is recognized for 1 hour.
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, for purposes of debate only, I yield the 
customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from South Boston, Massachusetts 
[Mr. Moakley], and pending that I yield myself such time as I may 
consume. All time yielded is for the purpose of debate only.
  (Mr. DREIER asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, this rule provides for consideration of H.R. 
3019, the second Balanced Budget Down Payment Act, under a modified 
closed rule, providing 1 hour of general debate divided equally between 
the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on 
Appropriations.
  The rule further provides for adoption in the House and in the 
Committee of the Whole for a technical amendment printed in section 2 
of the resolution.
  Only amendments specified in the Committee on Rules report are in 
order.
  The rule makes in order four amendments: An amendment by the 
gentlewoman from New York [Mrs. Lowey] to strike language in the bill 
giving States authority to determine if Medicaid shall fund abortions 
other than to save the life of a mother within that State; an amendment 
by the gentleman from Oklahoma [Mr. Istook] to require organizations 
that receive Federal grants to disclose their lobbying activities; an 
amendment by the gentleman from Idaho, [Mr. Crapo] to establish a 
deficit reduction lockbox; and a substitute that may be offered by the 
gentleman from Wisconsin, [Mr. Obey].
  Mr. Speaker, the substitute amendment shall be debatable for 60 
minutes. The other amendments shall be debatable for 20 minutes each. 
Time for each amendment shall be equally divided and controlled by an 
opponent and a proponent. All points of order against the amendments 
are waived. Each amendment shall be considered as read and shall not be 
subject to a demand for division of the question in the House or in the 
Committee of the Whole.
  Finally, the rule provides that the previous question shall be 
considered as ordered on the bill to final passage without intervening 
motion except one motion to recommit which, if containing instructions, 
may only be offered by the minority leader or his designee.
  Mr. Speaker, less than 6 weeks ago, the President stood right here in 
this Chamber and declared to the Congress and the American people that 
the era of big government is over. He also closed that State of the 
Union Message with a plea, a plea to all of us. He said, ``I challenge 
all of you in this Chamber. Let us never, ever, shut the Federal 
Government down again.''
  Now, Mr. Speaker, this bill will prevent a partial Government 
shutdown on March 15. The bill essentially completes the fiscal year 
1996 appropriations process so that this House can get down to the 
business of dealing with the fiscal year 1997. Most importantly, this 
bill continues the process of trimming Federal spending so that we can 
proceed to a balanced budget by 2002. It is critical that America's 
children wake up on January 1, 2000, and can see that we are on the 
verge of ending the annual deficits that are mortgaging their chance 
for a bright future.
  Regrettably, it appears that the era of big government has returned 
down at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. In order to increase Federal spending 
in his favored programs, the President is now threatening to, and 
listen to this carefully, Mr. Speaker, he is threatening to close down 
the Federal Government. He will again shut down the Government with his 
veto pen if we do not add another $8 billion in deficit spending to 
this bill.
  The crocodile tears are flooding out onto Pennsylvania Avenue, and 
the rhetoric is right from their pollsters and focus groups. The 
President will shut down the Federal Government again rather than sign 
a bill that does not spend more on Federal education, environment, and 
worker training programs.
  Mr. Speaker, there is no substance behind the White House charges. 
Just look at the issue of education, for example. Local communities and 
States carry the load on education, not the Federal Government. The 
President claims that we propose to cut spending by $3.3 billion. Now 
to put that into perspective, the United States spends over one-half 
trillion dollars a year, over $500 billion a year, on education.
  This Congress, the new majority, is strongly committed to improving 
education. The President, on the other hand, would not raise a finger 
to stand in the way of the powerful teachers unions that are strangling 
real education reforms in cities and towns all across this country, but 
he will shut down the Federal Government over a .6 of 1 percent cut in 
Federal spending.
  If he insists on threatening to shut down the Federal Government 
again, I wish he would at least threaten to shut down the Government if 
we did not pass a tax cut on families and a reduction in the capital 
gains tax to get wages moving up. That would finally address the 
Clinton crunch that is squeezing working families.
  Mr. Speaker, we have a moral obligation to our children to end the 
decades of deficits and debt. We must put families ahead of Government 
bureaucracies. This is a very tough job because the majority in 
Congress supports a smaller Government while the President wants the 
Government to solve more and more problems.

                              {time}  1200

  Nevertheless, this Congress remains committed to proceeding down the 
road to a balanced budget, and this bill closes out the fiscal year 
1996 appropriations process, consistent with that goal.
  The challenge that I would offer, Mr. Speaker, to our President is 
that he

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should never, never, ever shut the Federal Government down again. I 
also challenge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support this 
rule and support the bill so we can work with the Senate and the White 
House to reduce the deficit and avoid a Federal Government shutdown.
  Mr. Speaker, I include the following information on the amendment 
process:

  THE AMENDMENT PROCESS UNDER SPECIAL RULES REPORTED BY THE RULES COMMITTEE,\1\ 103D CONGRESS V. 104TH CONGRESS 
                                              [As of March 7, 1996]                                             
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                  103d Congress                        104th Congress           
              Rule type              ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                       Number of rules    Percent of total   Number of rules    Percent of total
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Open/Modified-open \2\..............                 46                 44                 59                 63
Modified Closed \3\.................                 49                 47                 22                 23
Closed \4\..........................                  9                  9                 13                 14
                                     ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Total.........................                104                100                 94                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).                                                                             


                          SPECIAL RULES REPORTED BY THE RULES COMMITTEE, 104TH CONGRESS                         
                                              [As of March 7, 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).            

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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  Tabled (2/28/96).
                                                                        Refuge.                                 
H. Res. 366 (2/27/96)..........  MC...............  H.R. 2854........  Farm Bill.............  PQ: 228-182 A:   
                                                                                                244-168 (2/28/  
                                                                                                96).            
H. Res. 368 (2/28/96)..........  O................  H.R. 994.........  Small Business Growth.  .................
H. Res. 371 (3/6/96)...........  C................  H.R. 3021........  Debt Limit Increase...  A: voice vote (3/
                                                                                                7/96).          
H. Res. 372 (3/6/96)...........  MC...............  H.R. 3019........  Cont. Approps. FY 1996  .................
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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. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, the bill we are considering today is the 11th continuing 
resolution this fiscal year. That means that we have had to vote on 
temporary spending measures 10 times in order to keep the Government 
going while my Republican colleagues fiddle with the appropriations 
bills.
  Those bills, Mr. Speaker, were supposed to be finished October 1--6 
months ago. Since they were not the U.S. Government has closed twice 
and is now operating thanks only to these continuing resolutions. I 
will insert in the Record a list of the first 10 continuing resolutions 
at this point.

                 Continuing Resolutions--104th Congress

------------------------------------------------------------------------
              Bill                       Rule             Disposition   
------------------------------------------------------------------------
H.J. Res. 108...................  (H. Res. 230, 9/28/ Bill passed House 
                                   95).                9/29/95; signed 9/
                                                       30/95.           
H.J. Res. 115...................  (H. Res. 257, 11/8/ Bill passed House 
                                   95, 216-210).       11/8/95 (230-    
                                                       197).            
                                  (H. Res. 261, 11/   House amendment to
                                   10/95, 223-182).    Senate amendment 
                                                       passed House 11/ 
                                                       10/95 (224-172)  
                                                       (CR to continue  
                                                       11 appropriation 
                                                       bills through 12/
                                                       1/95); vetoed 11/
                                                       13/95.           
H.J. Res. 121...................  (H. Res. 270, 11/   Bill passed House 
                                   15/95, 249-176).    11/16/95 (277-   
                                                       151) (CR through 
                                                       Dec. 5); signed  
                                                       11/20/95.        
H.J. Res. 123...................  (Suspension 11/18/  Bill passed House 
                                   95).                11/18/95 (416-0) 
                                                       (CR for Medicare,
                                                       SS employees and 
                                                       veterans benefits
                                                       through end of   
                                                       year); signed 11/
                                                       19/95.           
H.J. Res. 136...................  (UC 12/22/95).....  Bill passed House 
                                                       12/22/95         
                                                       (targeted        
                                                       benefits to AFDC,
                                                       foster care,     
                                                       adoption asst.   
                                                       through 1/3/96); 
                                                       signed 12/22/95. 
H.J. Res. 153...................  (UC 1/3/96).......  Bill passed House 
                                                       1/3/96 (CR for   
                                                       D.C.), signed 1/4/
                                                       96.              
H.J. Res. 134...................  (H. Res. 317, 12/   Bill passed House 
                                   20/95; H. Res.      12/20/95 (411-1) 
                                   336, 1/5/96).       House amendment  
                                                       to Senate        
                                                       amendment passed 
                                                       House 1/5/96 (CR 
                                                       contingent on 7- 
                                                       year budget),    
                                                       signed 1/6/96.   
H.J. Res. 1643..................  (H. Res. 334, 1/5/  Bill passed House 
                                   96).                1/5/96 (401-17)  
                                                       (CR for targeted 
                                                       programs); signed
                                                       1/6/96.          
H.J. Res. 1358..................  (H. Res. 338, 1/5/  House amendment to
                                   96).                Senate amendment 
                                                       passed House 1/5/
                                                       96 (CR for       
                                                       additional       
                                                       targeted         
                                                       programs); signed
                                                       1/6/96.          
H.J. Res. 2880..................  (UC 1/25).........  Passed House 1/25/
                                                       96 (371-42) (CR--
                                                       ``Balanced Budget
                                                       Downpayment Act''
                                                       for targeted     
                                                       appropriations   
                                                       through 3/15/96);
                                                       signed 1/26/96.  
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  If my Republican colleagues had done their job and passed the 
appropriations bills instead of wasting time cutting Medicare and 
school lunches to pay for tax breaks for the rich--the Government would 
not be relying on these continuing resolutions to keep operating.
  And, to make matters worse, this continuing resolution makes such 
horrible cuts in education and the environment that the President will 
veto it. So, once again, Mr. Speaker, the Republicans will put our 
Government at risk of shutting down.
  Mr. Speaker, and my Republican colleagues, the American people are 
sick and tired of these political games. They expect their Government 
to remain open and they deserve it. They are having a hard enough time 
with college loans thanks to the last shutdown for heaven's sake--don't 
do it to them again.
  Furthermore, do not attach these enormous education and environmental 
cuts to the continuing resolution. They have no place on a bill 
designed to keep the Government open, in fact they belong in the trash 
can.
  The sole reason for a continuing resolution should be to keep the 
Government going, while Congress works to pass the appropriations 
bills. It should not be used to further a political agenda, 
particularly one that hurts the American people as much as this one 
does.
  Mr. Speaker, this bill takes over 3 billion dollars from the 
education of American children. It is the single largest education cut 
in history, and Mr. Speaker, that is wrong.
  In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and around the entire country, 
education is probably more important than just about anything else. 
American children deserve the best education we can give them, and 
under no circumstances whatsoever should this Congress be trifling with 
their future.
  Anyone who votes for this bill is voting to limit access to Head 
Start, a good elementary school education, and college.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to defeat this rule, and I reserve 
the balance of my time.
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the 
distinguished gentleman from Glens Falls, NY [Mr. Solomon], chairman of 
the Committee on Rules to counter those arguments that we want to 
jeopardize people from getting college degrees and some of the other 
crazy things we have just heard.
  (Mr. SOLOMON asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. SOLOMON Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding time to 
me.
  Mr. Speaker, I have a prepared statement here, but I think I will 
just throw it away and say I have just heard the greatest speech on 
this floor about continuing the status quo, the failed status quo on 
welfare and all of these other programs, that I have ever heard on this 
floor. I commend my counterpart, the ranking member of the Committee on 
Rules.
  (Mr. SOLOMON asked and was given permission to speak out of order.)


      Announcement Regarding Schedule and Submission of Amendments

  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, let me interrupt that just for a minute to 
make an announcement, if I might, because it concerns the membership 
and tomorrow's schedule.
  Mr. Speaker, the majority leader, the gentleman from Texas [Mr. 
Armey], because of the bad weather reports that are coming in, has 
agreed to cancel the session for tomorrow as far as floor action is 
concerned. The Committee on Rules was scheduled to meet tomorrow on two 
very important bills, the conference report on the State Department 
operations, and the death penalty and terrorism bill.
  What we are going to do today, with the cooperation of the minority, 
the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Moakley], is that the Committee 
on Rules is going to meet today at 2 o'clock. We will consider the 
conference report rule to be brought to the floor next Tuesday. We will 
also consider, for general debate only, the death penalty and terrorism 
bill. We will not be taking testimony from those Members that want to 
ask for amendments to be made in order. We will only take testimony 
from the chairman and the ranking member. Then on Tuesday at 2 o'clock, 
the Committee on Rules will meet and we will take testimony from any 
Member that has timely filed his amendments at that time.
  If Members are concerned about this, if they call the Committee on 
Rules we will enlighten them, but I would alert

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Members that we will have a Committee on Rules meeting at 2 o'clock 
this afternoon.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. SOLOMON. I yield to the gentleman from Massachusetts.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, does the chairman of the committee agree 
that Tuesday noontime is still the cutoff for amendments?
  Mr. SOLOMON. Yes. That time has passed now, so no further amendments 
can be received.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. I thank the gentleman.
  Mr. SOLOMON. However, any that were prefiled about a month ago and as 
recently as this week would be considered by the Committee on Rules.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of this rule on the Balanced 
Budget Down Payment Act, II. This rule provides for expeditious 
consideration of the bill, while at the same time allowing the House to 
vote on some of the most significant issues raised in this legislation.
  There are a total of four amendments made in order by this rule--two 
of them are offered by Democrats and two of them are offered by 
Republicans.
  Mr. Speaker, this rule provides a fair process, and a balanced 
process for the consideration of the bill to fund the Federal 
Governments for the rest of this fiscal year.
  Because there are time limits set on each amendment, the House can 
complete this job in a predictable amount of time.
  Mr. Speaker, I would also like to take this opportunity to commend 
the chairman of the Appropriations Committee, Mr. Livingston, for the 
way he has handled the difficult job of putting this bill together.
  He has wrapped all four unfinished appropriations into one package 
and has funded them at levels under the fiscal year 1996 budget 
resolution for the remainder of the fiscal year.
  Chairman Livingston has also managed to pay for important emergency 
funding for disaster relief, Bosnia and Jordan.
  In past Congresses funds for such purposes were taken off budget, 
which added to the deficit. This time the emergency funding is being 
paid for right up front. This is a large step in the right direction.
  Mr. Speaker, I would also like to note that the budget resolution 
called for a $21 billion cut in discretionary spending from last year's 
levels. And to this date, the Appropriations Committee has cut $22 
billion.
  While larger budget negotiations remain on hold, the Appropriations 
Committee has been doing its job the right way.
  Mr. Speaker, I would also like to note that President Clinton, who in 
his recent state of the Union speech bragged about downsizing the 
Federal Government, has now requested $8 billion in additional social 
spending.
  This bill contains a contingency title, which will give the President 
$3.3 billion of that extra spending, but only if he comes up with cuts 
somewhere else to pay for it. And those cuts will have to be acceptable 
to this Congress.
  In summary, this bill provides a fiscally responsible way to fund the 
Government for the rest of the fiscal year, and this rule provides a 
fair and balanced way to consider the bill.
  Vote ``yes'' on the previous question and ``yes'' on the rule.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Texas [Mr. Edwards].
  Mr. EDWARDS. Mr. Speaker, this rule is unfair to America's veterans. 
Let me repeat, this rule is unfair to America's veterans. Do not take 
my word for it, listen to what national veterans leaders have to say 
about language in this bill that the Committee on Rules did not let us 
even vote on to take out in regard to restricting the Department of 
Veterans Affairs.
  The National Commander of the Disabled American Veterans, Thomas 
McMasters, said ``* * * if enacted, would have a devastating impact on 
the office of the VA secretary * * *'' and he referred to the language 
as ``* * * unreasonable and seemingly punitive limitations * * * if not 
deleted, these spending restrictions will send a chilling message to 
disabled veterans.''
  Do not listen to me, listen to the words of Steve Robertson, Director 
of the National Legislative Commission of the American Legion: ``This 
language would adversely impact the personal lives of 172 career 
employees and programs specifically designed for women and minority 
veterans. This is not a request for increased funding, but rather for 
fairness to those destined to bear the brunt of the hardship.''
  Listen to the words of Richard Grant, with the Paralyzed Veterans of 
America: ``These cuts are an attempt to restrict the activities of the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs and reduce the effectiveness of the other 
affected Offices * * * in reality, the cuts will solely prove to be 
detrimental to veterans,'' detrimental.
  Listen to AmVets, their National Commander, Kenneth Wolford: ``As a 
result of this resolution we may expect that services to our Nation's 
veterans will suffer.''
  Mr. Speaker, I never thought I would see this House vote to gag a 
combat-wounded veteran, Secretary Jesse Brown, who has had the courage 
to stand up and fight for our Nation's veterans. I am disappointed the 
Committee on Rules turned its back on every national veterans 
organization in America that wanted us to simply be able to have a 
right to vote to take that language out.
  Mr. Speaker, our veterans fought and gave their lives to give us the 
right to vote. The Committee on Rules said no to that very essential 
right. Oppose this rule.
  Mr. Speaker, I include for the Record letters from the officials of 
the veterans' organizations to which I referred:
  The material referred to is as follows:


                                Paralyzed Veterans of America,

                                                    March 5, 1996.
     Hon. Mark O. Hatfield,
     U.S. Senate,
     Washington, DC.
       Dear Senator Hatfield: On behalf of the members of 
     Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA), I request your 
     opposition to efforts which target spending cuts in the 
     proposed Continuing Resolution for the Office of the 
     Secretary, Department of Veterans Affairs and for the VA's 
     Offices of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs, 
     Congressional Affairs, and Policy and Planning. These cuts 
     save the government no money at all and are restrictive 
     artifices contained within the funding for VA General 
     Operating Expenses (GOE).
       These cuts are an attempt to restrict the activities of the 
     Secretary of Veterans Affairs and reduce the effectiveness of 
     the other affected Offices, but, in reality the cuts will 
     solely prove to be detrimental to veterans. By restricting 
     funding, as proposed in the Continuing Resolution, VA will be 
     less able to communicate with veterans and the public. These 
     cuts will minimize or preclude VA's ability to effectively 
     participate in programs such as the National Veterans 
     Wheelchair Games, which has been, historically, co-presented 
     by VA and PVA.
       Of additional concern is the fact that the cuts will 
     directly affect career federal employees, many of whom are 
     veterans, not political appointees, who have demonstrated 
     their dedication to serving veterans. The prospects of 
     furloughs, loss of compensation and the uncertainties for 
     future employment will all compound the already fragile 
     morale within the VA.
       Again, on behalf of the members of PVA and all veterans, I 
     request that you oppose the restrictive cuts contained within 
     the VA GOE account of the proposed Continuing Resolution and 
     afford the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and his staff the 
     ability to adequately address the needs of veterans.
           Sincerely,
     Richard Grant.
                                                                    ____



                                                       AMVETS,

                                                    March 5, 1996.
     Hon. Mark O. Hatfield,
     U.S. Senate,
     Washington, DC.
       Dear Senator Hatfield: AMVETS is greatly concerned about 
     the FY96 Continuing Resolutions as it pertains to the 
     Department of Veterans Affairs.
       The constraints proposed will not only strongly affect the 
     Secretary's personnel and travel, but will have a negative 
     impact on three other supporting offices. Additionally, there 
     is a real human resources impact which will affect the jobs 
     of 172 hard-working long-term career employees. Severely 
     challenged by two needless furloughs, their loyalty and 
     enthusiasm may not survive this targeted budget action.
       As a result of this resolution we may expect that services 
     to our nations' veterans will suffer. Information that is 
     vital to veterans service organizations, whether obtained in 
     written form or from face-to-face sharing at conferences and 
     conventions, will be severely hampered. Progress gained in 
     reaching minority and women veterans will be sacrificed.
       Let reason prevail. Do not target areas of the VA for the 
     purpose of punishing the actions of the Secretary, which some 
     may view as engaging in partisan politics, and others as the 
     championing of veterans' interests.
           Sincerely,
                                               Kenneth E. Wolford,
     National Commander.
                                                                    ____



                                   Disabled American Veterans,

                                    Washington, DC, March 6, 1996.
     To: All Members of Senate Appropriations Committee
       One behalf of the more than one million members of the 
     Disabled American Veterans (DAV), I take this opportunity to 
     contact you about an issue of utmost importance to the DAV--
     the Fiscal Year 1996 Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) 
     Appropriation. In particular, I wish to express our grave 
     concern about a provision of VA's Appropriation

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     bill which, if enacted, would have a devastating impact on 
     the office of the VA Secretary.
       As we understand it, the overall funding level for VA's 
     General Administration account, which is contained in the 
     Fiscal Year 1996 VA continuing resolution bill now being 
     considered by Congress, is not in dispute. Rather, the 
     objectionable provisions of this measure are the 
     unreasonable, and seemingly punitive limitations being placed 
     on the personnel and travel budgets for the office of the VA 
     Secretary as well as three other of its supporting offices.
       It appears that the proposed cuts contained in this measure 
     would require furloughing a significant number of very 
     dedicated career VA employees, costing these individuals and 
     their families an average of $10,360 in lost salary over the 
     next six months. In addition, because of these cuts, 
     activities of the Center for Minority Affairs and the Center 
     for Women Veterans will be significantly curtailed. 
     Obviously, should this happen, these offices will not be able 
     to fulfill their Congressionally-mandated missions of 
     assisting deserving minority and women veterans who 
     faithfully served this nation.
       Further, should these proposed spending restrictions be 
     implemented, not only will the Secretary of Veterans Affairs 
     be unable to execute his duties to oversee VA operations, the 
     Secretary will be forced to curtail other activities which 
     directly support our nation's sick and disabled veterans. 
     Specifically, these spending restrictions will have an 
     adverse effect upon the ability of the Office of Public 
     Affairs to assist with and participate in direct patient care 
     activities such as the Disabled Veterans Winter Sports 
     Clinic, National Veterans Wheelchair Games, Golden Age Games, 
     and Creative Arts Festival. These events, individually and 
     collectively, represent a true therapeutic and rehabilitative 
     milieu unmatched in the traditional medical setting.
       If not deleted, these spending restrictions will send a 
     chilling message to disabled veterans and others whose 
     foremost concern is the welfare of America's veterans. The 
     message, quite simply, will be: the department charged with 
     the responsibility of advocating for the interests of 
     disabled veterans and their families will be unable to do so 
     because of partisan disagreements between Congress and the 
     Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
       Senator, we urge you to sponsor and support an amendment to 
     VA's Fiscal Year 1996 Appropriation bill that would remove 
     these unwarranted spending restrictions. By setting aside 
     partisan political disagreements with the Secretary of the 
     VA, Congress can send a positive message to America's 
     veterans and their families that their sacrifices in defense 
     of this nation are indeed truly appreciated by a grateful 
     nation.
       We thank you for your courteous attention to this 
     correspondence and look forward to your early reply.
           Sincerely,
                                         Thomas A. McMasters, III,
     National Commander.
                                                                    ____



                                          The American Legion,

                                    Washington, DC, March 5, 1996.
     Hon. Mark O. Hatfield,
     Chairman,
     Committee on Appropriations, U.S. Senate, S-128 The Capitol, 
         Washington, DC.
       Dear Mr. Chairman: As you and your colleagues take up the 
     FY 1996 Continuing Resolution, The American Legion directs 
     your attention to language that sets specific limitations on 
     personnel and travel costs for the Secretary of Veterans 
     Affairs and three of his supporting offices. This language 
     would adversely impact the personal lives of 172 career 
     employees and programs specially designed for women and 
     minority veterans.
       The American Legion believes the overall funding level for 
     the General Operating Expenses and its subaccount, General 
     Administration, will force the Secretary to significantly 
     alter his managerial and leadership styles. Lifting the 
     specific limitations would not penalize the career employees. 
     This is not a request for increased funding, but rather for 
     fairness to those destined to bear the brunt of the hardship. 
     These innocent victims do their jobs, day-in and day-out, 
     without regard to partisan politics and most of them have 
     served under several administrations. Their common goal is 
     service to America's veterans and their families.
       Thank you for taking the views of The American Legion under 
     serious consideration as you lead the Appropriations 
     Committee in finalizing the FY 1996 Continuing Resolution.
           Sincerely,

                                              Steve Robertson,

                                                         Director,
                                  National Legislative Commission.

  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I would simply respond, Mr. Speaker, to my friend, the gentleman from 
Texas, and say that it is absolutely preposterous to make that claim. 
Jesse Brown has moved throughout this country attacking this new 
majority, which is strongly committed to our Nation's veterans. We, to 
this day, are committed to ensuring that our veterans are in no way 
jeopardized. I hope that that message will get through.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to my friend, the gentleman from 
Sanibel, FL [Mr. Goss], chairman of the Subcommittee on Legislative and 
Budget Process of the Committee on Rules.
  (Mr. GOSS asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I thank the distinguished gentleman from 
greater downtown San Dimas, CA [Mr. Dreier], vice chairman of the 
Committee on Rules, for yielding me this time. Mr. Speaker, I agree 
with his the gentleman's comments about veterans. We have many in south 
Florida, and we have tried very hard to look out for them and make sure 
they were properly attended to, but I do not think that trying to take 
out the administrative expenses that are being used or misused for 
propaganda is exactly the same area of expenditure that the gentleman 
from Texas was speaking to.
  Mr. Speaker, the battle over the fiscal year 1996 budget is coming to 
an end. It is time. After two partial Government shutdowns, three 
continuing resolutions, and a lot of stonewalling by the White House, 
we are prepared to close the books on this fiscal year and move on.
  I am pleased that the rule before us is a fair rule in that it makes 
two Democratic amendments and two Republican amendments in order, 
including the lockbox amendment, which I care about, and many of us 
have worked on for a long time. This is going to allow the House to 
consider a fiscally responsible bill that will keep the Government 
running through the end of the fiscal year.
  I make that statement, Mr. Speaker, in the full anticipation that 
this bill is a fiscally responsible bill, we believe it is, and that it 
will in fact keep the Government running through the end of the year, 
the end of the fiscal year. But I have to point out that that only 
happens with the cooperation of the President of the United States.
  So we are prepared to go forward, get the country on track, and get 
into the next year and look at the next step. If the President does not 
want to do that and does not want to cooperate, he has that option as 
the President of the United States, but of course, that would end up in 
a Government shutdown, which we all want to avoid.
  Looking on the bright side of the budget debate, Congress has been 
able to trim several billions of dollars from the deficit by our 
efforts so far, an amount that is not going to be added to the $5 
trillion debt, or in fact not going to be passed on to our children and 
grandchildren.
  Despite our earnest efforts, the President and his administration 
have resisted all attempts to make desperately needed reforms to 
Medicare, Medicaid, welfare, and a whole bunch of other programs that 
we are going to talk about. Particularly upsetting is the fact, 
revealed in recent news reports, in fact, that the administration may 
well have been holding back on the true depth of the crisis facing the 
Medicare part A account. Of course, this matters a great deal in my 
district, where I have many senior citizens relying on part A.
  For over a year we have been operating under the assumption that this 
program would go broke in the year 2002 if we did not do something to 
reform it. In fact, the Republicans and fiscal conservatives and others 
interested have been trying to come up with a program that will in fact 
make those repairs. We knew about this in the Carey Commission report, 
so we have proceeded.
  Regrettably, the President has vetoed that offering as well. Now we 
are learning that we may be in trouble before 2002, and apparently the 
Clinton White House has known this but has not seen fit to share that 
information with us. The problem is worse than we knew. So this is a 
problem that is not going to go away simply because the administration 
wants to ignore it.
  We are going to continue to work to enact a responsible plan to save 
the Medicare Program and to bring greater choice in health care to 
seniors, and we are going to do it, and we are going to add to the 
benefits and the expenditures in health care, but we are going to do it 
responsibly. There will not be any cuts in Medicare.
  Mr. Speaker, as we begin to work for the spending bills for fiscal 
year 1997, it makes sense for Congress, of course, to wrap up what we 
were supposed to have been doing in 1996, and we have done that in 
these appropriations measures before us, in this continuing resolution.
  I think that the damage done by the President's shutdown of our 
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parks, service centers, and other areas of Government is well known. We 
certainly do not want that to happen now and we do not want another 
budget crisis. In fact, I have to say on a personal note, and I thank 
the gentleman from California for yielding me the time to say it, that 
the damage to small businesses which operate in the Everglades National 
Park, down in my part of the world, was of such significance that today 
I am introducing a bill to make those businesses eligible for emergency 
loans through the Small Business Administration.
  Had President Clinton not vetoed the fiscally responsible legislation 
we gave him to keep the Government running, that would not have been 
necessary, and those people would not have the pain and suffering they 
are going through.
  If the era of big Government is truly over, as the gentleman from 
California says, then this bill we have before us paves the way for the 
newer era of smaller Government that spends less and is less intrusive. 
I certainly think that is a good proposition to pursue.
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I 
would like to continue with what my friend opened with, and that is 
responding to this preposterous claim that came from the well by my 
friend, the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Edwards], on this issue of 
medical funding for veterans.
  I have just been given by the staff of the Committee on 
Appropriations the following statement:

       Funding in this bill, H.R. 3019, at the conference report 
     level of the regular bill, H.R. 2099, is $16,654,000,000. 
     This amount is approximately $400 million above the fiscal 
     year 1995 post-rescission level, and is the only increase of 
     any significance in the fiscal year 1996 VA-HUD 
     appropriation, and in fact, this level is $400 million below 
     the fiscal year 1996 request.

                              {time}  1215

  The claim that somehow Jesse Brown is being victimized by this, their 
administration requested $400 million less, so they should not claim 
that we are not doing anything other than trying to improve the 
challenges that our veterans face.
  With that, Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I was just handed a note. Under this bill, the 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts will lose $33 million of Federal 
education funding, so the statement I made about losing educational 
college grants and other things is a factual matter.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Texas [Ms. 
Jackson-Lee].
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker. I could not help listening to 
my colleagues on the other side of the aisle talk with sugar-coated 
platitudes about what realisms they think are in this continuing 
resolution.
  I simply listen to the real people in my district, and clearly we are 
facing a shutdown of many programs in our veterans' hospitals in the 
Houston area. As I look at this litany of injustice that we are calling 
a continuing resolution, and I might add, maybe the yellow paper is 
appropriate, because this is a cowardice act.
  This is to take to us the end of the year, and what you find in this 
list of injustices is no money for the police on the beat program that 
the Harris County Sheriff's Department has used, that the Houston 
Police Department has used. We see little money for legal services for 
the indigent through cuts in funds to the Legal Services Corp. We see 
no money dealing with crime prevention, the DARE Program, the safe and 
drug free programs.
  Then we come, as we move into the 21st century, this is suppose to be 
a visionary Congress, what do we say about education? We cut over $3.3 
billion. We begin to tell those individuals in Harris County who have 
the Goals 2000 Program that, first of all, they will lose $29 million 
out of the State of Texas, $13.8 million out of Harris County. We will 
then begin to tell our school boards, having met with many of our 
school leaders while I was home in the district, that out of the 40,000 
teachers that will lose their jobs across the Nation, that we will 
begin to be giving pink slips in the month of March in the State of 
Texas to some of our own teachers.
  Then I hear my Republican colleagues talking about the veterans' 
program. We are gutting programs under this continuing resolution and 
undermining the leadership of Secretary Brown. We meet with disabled 
veterans in the district this coming Saturday. My heart pains for what 
I will have to tell them, that this continuing resolution cuts funds 
and guts some veterans' programs. But their message is getting after 
Secretary Brown because he has simply used his first amendment right, I 
did not know that was an appropriate role for an appropriations' 
committee.
  Let me also add that I rise to support the Lowey amendment, even 
though this rule is one that I oppose because it shuts down the 
opportunity for other Members to provide reasoned response to this 
continuing resolution. The Lowey amendment, of course, will provide the 
opportunity to treat indigent women as fair as we treat other women 
with Medicaid funding for medical procedures with regard to abortion.

  The Istook amendment, how tragic that we come again to tell the Boy 
Scouts, the United Way, MECA in my community, an Hispanic organization, 
the Houston Symphony and the Houston Grand Opera that you cannot come 
and constitutionally press your point before the U.S. Congress.
  Mr. Speaker, this appropriation's bill, as I indicated to you, is a 
tragedy and a litany of injustice. It is a cowardice act. Until we face 
the fact that none of us disagree with a balanced budget, I am here 
today standing on a record of voting for a balanced budget. But what my 
Democratic colleagues do stand for in this appropriations bill is 
educating our children for the 21st century. Those of us who oppose 
this bill recognize that economic security is important to Americans. 
This bill does nothing but create injustices in this country for all 
America, particularly working America.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise opposed to this rule and opposed to this 
continuing resolution.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the rule on H.R. 3019. The 
Members of the House have not had sufficient time to review this bill. 
It is too important and affects too many Americans for us to give it 
only a cursory review.
  My concerns with this bill include the following:
  While the bill does provide additional funding--$681 million--for 
veterans compensation benefits and pensions, this additional funding 
may be released only upon enactment of separate legislation providing 
offsetting budgetary savings. This is unconscionable.
  The bill provides only $1.2 billion in funding for Superfund cleanup, 
which is 19 percent less than fiscal year 1995 funding.
  The bill appropriates only $23.6 billion for the Department of 
Education, which is 12 percent less than the fiscal year 1995 level.
  Title 1 educational programs are cut 17 percent over the 1995 level, 
educational reform programs are cut by 81 percent over the 1995 level, 
safe and drug-free schools programs are cut by 57 percent, or $266 
million, bilingual and immigrant education programs are cut by 28 
percent, or $57 million, vocational and adult education programs are 
cut by 9 percent, or $125 million, and student financial assistance 
programs are cut by 13 percent, or $974 million.
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New 
Jersey [Mr. Pallone].
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to this rule. 
The Republican leadership again is keeping up its attack on the 
environment.
  Mr. Speaker, this bill, H.R. 3019, is the same old antienvironmental 
legislation that the President has vetoed twice before. It contains the 
same environmental riders, anemic funding levels and special interest 
give-aways, just like the previous conference report.
  Last night I asked the Rules Committee for permission to offer an 
amendment that would restore a sensible level of funding for the EPA, 
and of course I was denied. Therefore, there will be no opportunity 
today to provide adequate funding for the environment.
  My amendment would have increased the level of funding to the EPA for 
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that is commensurate with the last fiscal year, funding levels 
identical to those recently recommended by the President.
  Mr. Speaker, my amendment also would have provided the funding levels 
that EPA needs to be able to set environmental and public health 
standards for air pollution, pesticides, and clean and safe water, and 
to make the Superfund Program faster and more efficient. It would also 
restore the funds needed to keep the environmental cop on the beat, to 
ensure that once these safety standards are set, that they are properly 
adhered to. My amendment would also strip out all the antienvironmental 
riders which once again are in this bill.
  Mr. Speaker, this bill, like the previous interior conference report, 
includes riders that stop the Secretary from listing endangered species 
and increase logging in national forests. It contains a 40 percent cut 
in the endangered species funding.
  The bill, like the previous VA conference report, includes riders 
that prohibit the EPA from protecting wetlands, limit enforcement of 
the Clean Air Act, prohibit new drinking water standards for radon, and 
stop the agency from moving ahead to clean up toxic waste. It contains 
funding levels that are 22 percent below the President's fiscal 1996 
request.
  Mr. Speaker, make no mistake about it, this bill is a bad bill for 
the environment. The rhetoric that we received from the Republican 
leadership that they were no longer going to try to hurt the 
environment, that they were not going to try to turn back the clock any 
more, that 1996 was going to be different from 1995 with regard to 
environmental measures, it is simply not true. They are back at the 
same old game. We have to vote down this rule.
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the 
distinguished gentleman from Metairie, LA [Mr. Livingston], the 
chairman of the Committee on Appropriations.
  (Mr. LIVINGSTON asked and was given permission to revise and extend 
his remarks.)
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I applaud what the Rules Committee has 
done on this rule, and I urge the adoption of the rule.
  Mr. Speaker, a few weeks ago I paraphrased the great saying of the 
wonderful humorist, Will Rogers, in referring to the Democrats. Let me 
reparaphrase it. Basically, they never say a program they did not want 
to enact, and they never saw a U.S. taxpayer's dollar that they did not 
want to tax and spend, and here we go again.
  I just heard a few minutes ago this bill is an act of cowardice, the 
bill is riddled with sugar-coated platitudes, the bill is a litany of 
injustice. My goodness.
  Mr. Speaker, we have been working on fiscal year 1996 bills for a 
very long time. There will be some attacks against us because it has 
taken so long. This bill wraps up what has been left undone in fiscal 
year 1996 because the President vetoed three bills and because the 
liberals in the other body filibustered the fourth bill. We have taken 
those bills, and we put them together, and we have addressed the 
spending needs encompassed in those bills.
  We have given the President the funding that he has requested for 
Bosnia and other foreign adventures where he had deployed our troops. 
We have given the President what he wants in disaster relief for the 
people who are devastated in the far Northwest and other parts of the 
country and in the Virgin Islands.
  We have attempted to provide extra funding for the President. He said 
2 months ago he wanted $6 billion in additional spending. Now he says 
he needs $8 billion in additional spending, and just yesterday he sent 
a letter to Chairman Hatfield, through Alice Rivlin, his director of 
OMB, saying they would veto even the Senate bill which provided $4.7 
billion in extra spending, saying they still needed an additional $7 
billion.
  Then by my math it is close to $12 billion that they are now asking 
for in additional spending. Basically the President, who said that the 
era of big Government is now over, the President, who signed on to the 
balanced budget by the year 2002 agreement, is now saying, ``Well, we 
like your bills, but you got to spend another $6 to $8 to $12 
billion.''
  Because we are not spending that money, or we are approaching it in 
some fashion because we are doing it contingently, many Members on the 
Democratic side of the aisle get up and rail against sugar-coated 
platitudes, litanies of injustice and acts of cowardice.
  Mr. Speaker, they simple will never be satisfied with enough programs 
or enough of Government's reaching into the pockets of the taxpaying 
citizens of this country, taking it out and spreading it all over the 
place.
  In this bill, there is $14.6 billion to fight crime, for law 
enforcement, which is a 20-percent increase over last year, including a 
25-percent increase for immigration initiatives, 57-percent increase 
for State and local law enforcement, 285-percent increase for State 
criminal alien assistance, 573-percent increase for violence against 
women programs. That is in this bill.
  Second, we heard we don't have enough for education, not enough for 
Head Start Program. The Head Start Program has been growing. In 1989, 
$1.2 billion; 1991, $1.5; 1991, $1.9; all the way up, and in 1995 it 
hit $3.57 billion. We trimmed off $100 million, so it is now $3.4 
billion, and with this we are destroying the children of America, to 
hear the statements that have been made on this floor.
  No, we are not. In fact we are spending $23.6 billion for education 
for youngsters all around America including Head Start, $23.6 billion 
taxpayers dollars, and by the recent count of the chairman of the 
Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities, in something like 
736 separate programs.
  I really believe that this Government could operate with fewer than 
100 education programs. Probably we could operate with about 50 
education programs. We have got 730 some odd education programs and 
they say that that is an act of cowardice. I am just overwhelmed by the 
arguments against this bill.
  For veterans, they say we are cutting veterans. The American taxpayer 
is paying $38.4 billion on veterans' programs, which includes $16.9 
billion on veterans' health care. That is not hurting the veteran. That 
is helping the veteran.
  We are spending $19.3 billion on housing. We are spending $5.7 
billion on the environmental through EPA alone, the Environmental 
Protection Agency, $5.7 billion just on that agency, and it is not 
enough, they say. ``It is not enough, we want to spent more,'' they 
say. We are spending $5.1 billion on parks and refuges and forests for 
the environment, in addition to the $5.7 billion spent on EPA.

  The point is, Mr. Speaker, when ever is enough enough for these 
people? They will never be satisfied. You have got to spend more or 
else you are guilty of an act of cowardice, you are guilty of sugar-
coated platitudes, and you are guilty of a litany of injustices. I beg 
to differ, and I think that the vast majority of the American people 
agree with me.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from New 
York [Mr. Schumer].
  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this bill, and I 
would be happy to have that blue chart just stay there for 1 minute, if 
I might, the real crime bill. I was talking to the gentleman from 
Michigan. It is true that it is blue, but that is about it.

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  It does not have a badge, it does not have a gun, it does not have a 
nightstick, it does not have handcuffs, it does not have any of that. 
You know, what is missing in that crime bill, cops, police officers. It 
is just what the good gentleman from Louisiana rails against: program 
after program that does nothing.
  On our side, we are pointing out programs that have worked, whether 
it be Head Start or clean water or cops, and saying, ``Why are you 
cutting those?'' We would love to join with the other side in finding 
programs that are too well funded. But this is a meat ax approach, and 
in the area I know best, ask the average citizens, ask the experts, the 
best way to fight crime is get cops on the street. There is not one cop 
in that $14.6 billion. That is what the crime is.

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  So, to call it a real crime bill, I would say to the gentleman from 
Louisiana, to call it a real crime bill because it has more money is 
wrong. It is just what he says is wrong about so many other programs.
  We do not just want more money. We want money aimed at crime 
fighting. We want cops.
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. SCHUMER. I yield to the gentleman from Louisiana.
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. So the gentleman wants cops. It is the President's 
favorite program. The point is we put $1.9 billion in the block grant. 
If the communities want to use it for the Cops on the Street, they can 
do it. They also have flexibility to use it for other things.
  Mr. SCHUMER. We did that under LEAA. The gentleman was here. LEAA 
gave the local communities, local politicians, money to spend. LEAA 
gave the local politicians money to spend as they wished, and they 
wasted it. We have learned from LEAA.
  We have learned, put the money into cops, or we will never see more 
cops. And so I say to my colleagues that is no real crime bill. That 
bill is a real crime in terms of crime fighting because it does not 
have money going to fighting the crime. It has the money going to the 
local politicians and the Governors, who will use it for their own 
purposes, and the people of America will be no more safe, and, in fact, 
a great deal less safe, if the cops bill is repealed, as they attempt 
to do.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Michigan [Mr. Stupak].
  Mr. STUPAK. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding this time 
to me.
  We are talking about the COPS Program. The last speaker from the 
other side, the gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. Livingston], mentioned 
the COPS Program, and it is the President's program.
  Let me just say what they are saying in New Orleans about the COPS 
Program, that since they have implemented the COPS Program there has 
been a 15-percent decline in homicides. When the police department, 
through the COPS Program, opened 24-hour substations in some of the 
toughest housing projects, murders dropped 74 percent, or maybe even 
one of the constituents of the gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. 
Livingston] said, Deborah Davis, a mother of four, who has lived in 
these places, projects, all of her life she said that this is what 
community should be like. Instead of a killing place, it is now a place 
where we can see the light of hope.
  So why would the new majority want to kill the COPS Program? 
Understand, this program has not one police officer there. Eighty-seven 
percent of the American public will be served by over 33,000 police 
officers authorized underneath the COPS Program to date. COPS will fund 
small towns in rural areas, where I live, like northern Michigan. Half 
of all funding goes to areas serving jurisdictions under 150,000.
  The block grant program would go to population centers at the expense 
of our smaller rural areas. COPS per State minimum is twice what is 
even fashioned or thought of underneath the block grant program, 
because it not only funds the hiring of police officers but also is 
used to purchase equipment and technology, the hiring of civilian 
officers, civilian dispatchers, and the payment of overtime. The 
program, the bureaucratic program that they rail against, is a 1-page 
form, a 1-page application form.
  So what the COPS Program does is it responds directly to the 
flexibility of the local needs. Block grants would only allocate money 
on a very strict, complex mathematical program. The block grant 
proposal provides far less funding for fighting crime and prevention 
than the COPS Program.
  Mr. Speaker, I would hope that my colleagues throughout this Nation 
will look at the COPS Program, the success we have had, and vote ``no'' 
on this bill and not to gut the COPS Program. It is a good program. It 
is a successful program. And I am pleased to be an advocate for the 
program on behalf of the President.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Massachusetts [Mr. Kennedy].
  Mr. KENNEDY of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, first of all, I want to 
thank my friend, the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Moakley], for 
the efforts that he has made in this bill to try and make certain that 
the interests of the working families of our country are looked out 
after. I know that, as a veteran, he is particularly concerned about 
the treatment that the Veterans' Affairs Department receives in the CR.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the rule on H.R. 3019. This bill 
will unfairly target cuts in funding for the Office of the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs. It imposes these deep cuts in an attempt to punish 
the Secretary, Jesse Brown.
  But I have to ask--what is Secretary Brown being punished for? For 
his strong advocacy for adequate funding for VA programs? For his hard 
work in ensuring that the veterans of this country get what was 
promised to them? For his efforts to ensure a quality health care 
system for all veterans?
  Congress created the Department of Veterans Affairs as a Cabinet 
Department to insure that the Secretary would be an effective advocate 
for veterans. Now Secretary Brown is being punished for fulfilling his 
duties.
  Congressional rhetoric citing support for veterans is meaningless if 
the country's leading veterans' advocate is to be muzzled. The national 
commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars testified recently, ``We all 
fought for freedom. It is intolerable that Congress would consider 
denying Jesse Brown the freedom to be an advocate for veterans.''
  This closed rule for H.R. 3019 does not permit an amendment to bring 
veterans' funding to an acceptable level. This continuing resolution 
provides $900 million less for veterans' programs than the President 
requested. Funding for VA health care is $400 million below the 
President's request, and $200 million below the House-passed number.
  Mr. Speaker, we must not jeopardize Federal programs which benefit 
the veterans of this country. These men and women have made great 
sacrifices for us and for our country. They deserve our unending 
support.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
Connecticut [Ms. DeLauro].
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, this continuing resolution is another 
chapter in the sad story that began when Newt Gingrich and his 
Republican colleagues took over the people's House. Their agenda hurts 
working families, and this bill that we are voting on today is no 
exception. It continues to assault on working families by cutting 
education by over $3 billion, the largest education cuts in the history 
of this country. It cuts funds to improve kids' basic reading and math 
skills by over a billion dollars. It slashes more than half of the 
funds from the Safe and Drug Free Schools Program 57 percent. That 
program includes the DARE Program, which is, in combination, a program 
with the COPS and with kids to Say No to Drugs.
  It also cuts college loans by almost a billion dollars. The school-
to-work program that says to kids who want to go on to work and not to 
a 4-year liberal arts college, we recognize your aspirations and your 
dreams, and we want to give you a hand. This program is cut by 23 
percent.
  Mr. Speaker, at a time when Americans are rightly anxious about their 
job security, at a time when we all know a good education is a key to a 
good job, the congressional Republicans are launching an assault on 
American education.
  In my State, these cuts are a disaster. I met with parents and 
educators at a school in my district. They are concerned about what 
these cuts will mean. Under this proposal, funding for basic skills 
training will be cut $8.6 million in Connecticut; $1.5 million under 
the Safe and Drug Free Schools will be cut as well.
  Let me quote a parent that I met with at the beginning of the week, 
Carolyn Jackson. ``The proposed cuts would eliminate students' chances 
of being competitive they won't make it. They won't be trained. They 
won't be able to go on to a trade school or to college,'' she said. 
These after-school programs that would be cut keep the kids off the 
streets. It keeps them occupied. It gives them something positive to 
do.

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  If they cut that off, the only place that they will have left to go 
is the street.
  Mr. Speaker, these cuts are wrongheaded. The American dream is about 
education. Do not cut it off for our children.
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to my friend, the 
gentleman from Oregon [Mr. Bunn].
  (Mr. BUNN of Oregon asked and was given permission to revise and 
extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BUNN of Oregon. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding 
me this time.
  I rise in strong support of this appropriations package and would 
like to thank the distinguished chairman of the committee, the 
gentleman from Louisiana, for all the hard work that he has put into 
these appropriations bills over the past year.
  Included in this omnibus appropriations bill is a natural disaster 
title, which is extremely important to the constituents of my district 
in Oregon, which was recently overrun by the worst flooding in three 
decades. Of the many programs funded by this title, one I am 
appreciative the chairman has included at my request, to fund the 
emergency livestock feed program at a level of $10 million, $6 million 
of which is intended to go to the Tillamook County area of Oregon.
  I know the chairman is aware of the desperate situation that most of 
the dairy farmers in my district find themselves. In many areas of my 
district, which I visited, the silt is more than a foot thick, 
smothering any chance that the dairy cows will have feed through this 
summer, let alone next winter. The $6 million for the emergency 
livestock feed program in this bill that is intended for Tillamook 
County will literally help keep dozens of small farms from going under.
  Mr. Speaker, I would like also to thank the gentleman for increasing 
the funding for the strengthening institutions program, section A. The 
$55 million for this program will ensure that no school will lose their 
grant this year.


         section 2001(k) of the 1995 rescissions act amendment

  Mr. Speaker, I would also like to thank the chairman of the committee 
and the chairman of the Interior Subcommittee for including two 
provisions relating to section 2001(k) of the 1995 Rescissions Act in 
this bill.
  The first provision will give the administration the additional 
flexibility that it has requested to offer alternative timber volume 
for either all, or part of, timber sales that they deem to be in an 
environmentally sensitive area.
  After signing the 1995 Rescissions Act, the President, in a letter to 
the Speaker of the House, promised that his administration would 
``carry out [the timber provisions of the bill] with its full resources 
and a strong commitment to achieving the goals of the program.'' 
Unfortunately the President, contradictory to his promise, spent all of 
last year in court trying to alter the agreement which he said he was 
strongly committed to. This has created a problem in that, instead of 
having 2 years to harvest the timber released in section 2001(k), the 
time available for harvest has been reduced to only 1 year.
  To address this issue, the committee has also included a provision 
which will extend the authority contained in section 2001(k) for the 
life of the timber sale contract instead of the end of calendar year 
1996. This provision will likely keep the total harvest allowed under 
section 2001(k) to less than 250 million board feet per year. The 
option 9 timber volume has yet to exceed 500 million board feet in any 
year, so even with the addition of section 2001(k) timber it is 
unlikely that timber harvests in the option 9 region will meet the 
President's goal of 1.1 billion board feet per year in any given year. 
Make no mistake, if we do not extend the length of the authority for 
these sales, the companies holding these contracts will rush to harvest 
all of the 650 million board feet of timber in one summer. So, the 
right thing to do for public safety, environmental responsibility, and 
to assist the President in reaching his option 9 goals is to extend the 
authority for the life of the timber sale contracts. We have done that 
in this bill.
  Mr. Chairman, the other body's companion omnibus appropriations bill 
contains provisions introduced by the senior Senators from Oregon and 
Washington which are similar to the two which I have just outlined. The 
Senators' language also contains a provision relating to buy-out 
authority which we have not included in our bill. I am very concerned 
about this buy-out provision and somewhat disturbed that the President 
would request something which would cost the taxpayers of the Nation 
millions of dollars and would only serve to put money in the pockets of 
the timber-sale owners. It will do nothing to get timber workers back 
in the forests. It never ceases to amaze me the lengths to which this 
administration goes in their attempts to keep the family wage earners 
of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest idle. In the end, if this provision 
must move forward in order to keep the remainder of the program intact 
I may be willing to accept it, but I remain extremely concerned about 
the provision. I would like to one again thank the chairman of the 
committee for his hard work on this bill and I look forward to working 
with him on fiscal year 1997 funding.
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. BUNN of Oregon. I yield to the gentleman from Louisiana.
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. I appreciate the gentleman yielding the time to me. I 
am glad we were able to help him out with some of his requests. We want 
to make sure people who are devastated by natural disasters who can be 
helped by the Federal Government are helped by the Federal Government. 
That has been implicit throughout this process.
  I have to point out it had just come to my attention, since funding 
for Head Start has been an issue here, from somebody in Fort Wayne, IN, 
funding for Head Start in Fort Wayne, IN, has increased 183 percent 
while enrollment has increased 56 percent. There are 80 administrators 
and 26 teachers in their Head Start Program.
  Mr. BUNN of Oregon. I would like to voice my concern regarding the 
funding of several higher education programs in our bill, however, in 
particular the State student incentive grant program, which helps 
support the Oregon State need grant program for low-income students in 
my State. The capital contributions to the Perkins loan program, which 
also helps low-income students to go forward to college through the 
loan program, and also the minimum grants under the Pell grant.
  While I thank the Chair for increasing the Pell grant maximum, which 
will allow low-income students to keep up with inflation and the rising 
cost of tuition, eliminating the minimum Pell grants will be felt 
mostly by the community college students who depend upon those minimum 
grants. While this bill is a good starting point for higher education, 
I hope that we might be able to move toward the Senate funding levels 
for these specific programs during conference.
  I thank the chairman and look forward to working with him for the 
funding of these programs.

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  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from 
Wisconsin [Mr. Obey], the ranking member of the Committee on 
Appropriations.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding me time.
  Mr. Speaker, let me try to put this proposal in context. Bills which 
have gone through the Congress this year have cut $33 billion in the 
nondefense area. They have also added $7 billion above the President's 
request for the defense budget.
  All the President has wanted to do is to add back $7 billion of the 
$33 billion in domestic cuts, about 20 percent of the cuts that 
Congress has made this year, because the President feels, and I agree 
with him, that we ought not to cut back on education efforts, that we 
ought not to cut back on environmental enforcement efforts, especially 
given all the problems we have in both of those areas.
  Now, this bill comes to the floor and adds $1 billion back out of the 
$33 billion which had been cut in nondefense spending. It adds $1 
billion back, principally for the LIHEAP program. Other than that, 
there is no real change in dollar terms from the bills as they were 
constituted when the President vetoed them originally.
  Mr. Speaker, in fact this bill in some ways goes further away from a 
compromise than the continuing resolution

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under which we are now operating. For example, with the COPS Program, 
under the continuing resolution, the White House was allowed to 
continue to spend out at a 75-percent rate for the COPS Program, to 
help local communities add police on the beat. This wipes out that 
program. What this does is, I think, self-evident.

  In addition to that, what this bill does is add $3.3 billion in 
``funny money.'' It says, in essence: ``We would like to add some money 
back for education, we would like to add some money back for some other 
items, but, by the way, that really cannot happen until we pass another 
piece of legislation.'' And that piece of legislation is not in 
existence.
  So it is a way for politicians to pretend that they are embracing 
programs which in fact they are providing no real money for. As a 
result, this bill is still $3.3 billion, or 13 percent, below last 
year's funding for education, it is still $1.5 billion below last 
year's funding for EPA enforcement, it is $213 million below the amount 
that was in the original House bill for veterans medical care, even 
though that bill had $1.5 billion more to play with in conference than 
the original House bill.
  So for all of those reasons, I, for one, intend to vote against the 
bill. This is not a real bill. This is not a real operation. What this 
is, is simply an effort to demonstrate movement, when in fact there is 
none.
  I think what we need, rather than having a meaningless bill on the 
floor, I think what we need is to have serious negotiations between the 
White House and the top leadership of this Congress, so that we can get 
these issues resolved. We are simply spinning our wheels on this, and I 
think it serves no one's interest.
  I would take note of one additional item. I would at the proper time 
be asking unanimous consent to amend the rule to allow the language to 
be added that the White House requested on the C-17. That is a fine 
plane, the White House wants to buy more of them, the Pentagon agrees. 
The White House would like to enter into a multiyear contract on the C-
17. If they do that, they can save about $900 million off what it would 
otherwise cost the Government to build those planes. I think we ought 
to do that.
  So I will be offering a unanimous-consent request at the proper time. 
I would like to think it would be accepted, but that is really up to 
the majority party to determine whether it will be or not.
  Mr. Speaker, very simply, I am going to vote against this rule and 
this bill simply because I think this is a meaningless exercise, which 
tries to give the appearance of movement, when in fact there is no real 
movement, and in some cases there is actually movement in the wrong 
direction. I think this bill does not take us any closer to a 
compromise. Sooner or later we have to finish action on the fiscal 1996 
bills. This bill is not going to contribute to that process.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask the gentleman from California [Mr. 
Dreier] if he would kindly explain the amendment that is going to be 
forthcoming from their side. I would like to know if the kind gentleman 
from California would explain the amendment I understand that is going 
to be offered by his side of the aisle.
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the 
gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Walker] the distinguished chairman of 
the Committee on Science and the vice chairman of the Committee on the 
Budget, for an explanation of that.
  Mr. WALKER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding me time. 
I am doing this talking primarily as vice chairman of the Committee on 
the Budget.
  Mr. Speaker, the idea was our understanding of the reason for the 
language in title IV was that this was a contingent spending based upon 
the potential for a broad budget deal that would in fact include 
entitlement savings. The concern was that the language, as written, was 
not specific, that this was to be part of a broader deal. In fact, by 
adding the term ``reconciliation'' to it, it does assure that is what 
we are doing in the legislation that would come pursuant to this rule.
  I would say that there have been questions raised about what if we 
have something that happens as part of the debt limit. The feeling is 
this bill will be in conference at that point, and the deal can be made 
then to make certain everything matches up at that point. At least as 
the bill leaves the House, we are certain we are not going to break 
budget caps, which is part of the language of title IV, which is you 
can exceed some of the caps, depending on what comes down the line in 
terms of the offsets.
  All we are trying to do is say if you are going to do that, it has to 
be a part of a broad budget negotiation that includes broad-based 
entitlement savings. We think this language, it is a fairly modest 
change, accomplishes that objective. That is the purpose behind it.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. WALKER. I yield to the gentleman from Massachusetts.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman is not using the word 
``reconciliation'' as it is used in the Budget Act?
  Mr. WALKER. Mr. Speaker, reclaiming my time, it seems to me by doing 
that, it would probably have to follow at least the reconciliation 
rules, yes.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman is using the word 
``reconciliation'' in this amendment as it is used in the Budget Act?
  Mr. WALKER. Yes, because what part of the effort here is, I would say 
to the gentleman, is to allow entitlement money to offset discretionary 
money. The only way you can do that is as part of a broader package. We 
are trying to assure all the rules are followed as you do those kinds 
of trade-offs by putting that language in. That is what we are trying 
to accomplish.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Illinois [Mr. Durbin].
  (Mr. DURBIN asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. DURBIN. Mr. Speaker, the architects of this appropriation bill 
have been sipping Potomac water entirely too long. They are out of 
touch with what the real problems are in America and the real 
challenges facing working families.
  One can judge the priorities of the Republican leadership by their 
choices in spending. Let me tell you what they think are lower 
priorities, things that we should cut in today's America: They want to 
cut the School to Work Program, a program to give high school graduates 
adequate skills and training so that they can get good paying jobs; 
they want to cut programs like the Safe and Drug Free Schools Act. Did 
I miss the headline that said America is now in control of the drug 
problem, that we no longer have to worry about violence in our schools? 
I think to the contrary, American families know this is still a serious 
challenge. Our government and our people need to make a commitment to 
solving this problem. The Republican appropriation bill runs away from 
it.
  They freeze the Head Start Program, a program which takes kids 3, 4, 
and 5 years old, and gives them a chance, and they turn around and make 
deep cuts in environmental protection, programs that we count on to 
make sure that the water we drink is safe and the air we breathe is 
clean.
  These are the priorities of the Republican leadership, cutting work 
training, cutting education, cutting the environment, cutting back on 
programs that really help America's working families.
  The unkindest cut of all is cuts in college student loans. How many 
young men and women from working families will be denied a chance for 
higher education because of these Republican cuts in college student 
loans?
  This is not what America bargained for in the 1994 election. The 
Republican spending priorities reflect their values, but not the values 
of the working families in this country.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
   Mr. Speaker, this is the 59th restrictive rule, and I know this 
really shocks my dear friend from California, but this is the 59th 
restrictive rule reported out of the Committee on Rules this Congress 
so far this session; 88 percent of the rules reported have been 
restricted.
   Mr. Speaker, at this point, I include for the Record the following 
extraneous material.

                FLOOR PROCEDURE IN THE 104TH CONGRESS; COMPILED BY THE RULES COMMITTEE DEMOCRATS                
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                                                                          Process used for floor   Amendments in
            Bill No.                    Title           Resolution No.         consideration           order    
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H.R. 1*........................  Compliance........  H. Res. 6            Closed................           None.
H. Res. 6......................  Opening Day Rules   H. Res. 5            Closed; contained a              None.
                                  Package.                                 closed rule on H.R. 1                
                                                                           within the closed                    
                                                                           rule.                                
H.R. 5*........................  Unfunded Mandates.  H. Res. 38           Restrictive; Motion               N/A.
                                                                           adopted over                         
                                                                           Democratic objection                 
                                                                           in the Committee of                  
                                                                           the Whole to limit                   
                                                                           debate on section 4;                 
                                                                           Pre-printing gets                    
                                                                           preference.                          
H.J. Res. 2*...................  Balanced Budget...  H. Res. 44           Restrictive; only              2R; 4D.
                                                                           certain substitutes.                 
H. Res. 43.....................  Committee Hearings  H. Res. 43 (OJ)      Restrictive;                      N/A.
                                  Scheduling.                              considered in House                  
                                                                           no amendments.                       
H.R. 2*........................  Line Item Veto....  H. Res. 55           Open; Pre-printing                N/A.
                                                                           gets preference.                     
H.R. 665*......................  Victim Restitution  H. Res. 61           Open; Pre-printing                N/A.
                                  Act of 1995.                             gets preference.                     
H.R. 666*......................  Exclusionary Rule   H. Res. 60           Open; Pre-printing                N/A.
                                  Reform Act of                            gets preference.                     
                                  1995.                                                                         
H.R. 667*......................  Violent Criminal    H. Res. 63           Restrictive; 10 hr.               N/A.
                                  Incarceration Act                        Time Cap on                          
                                  of 1995.                                 amendments.                          
H.R. 668*......................  The Criminal Alien  H. Res. 69           Open; Pre-printing                N/A.
                                  Deportation                              gets preference;                     
                                  Improvement Act.                         Contains self-                       
                                                                           executing provision.                 
H.R. 728*......................  Local Government    H. Res. 79           Restrictive; 10 hr.               N/A.
                                  Law Enforcement                          Time Cap on                          
                                  Block Grants.                            amendments; Pre-                     
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           preference.                          
H.R. 7*........................  National Security   H. Res. 83           Restrictive; 10 hr.               N/A.
                                  Revitalization                           Time Cap on                          
                                  Act.                                     amendments; Pre-                     
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           preference.                          
H.R. 729*......................  Death Penalty/      N/A                  Restrictive; brought              N/A.
                                  Habeas.                                  up under UC with a 6                 
                                                                           hr. time cap on                      
                                                                           amendments.                          
S. 2...........................  Senate Compliance.  N/A                  Closed; Put on                   None.
                                                                           Suspension Calendar                  
                                                                           over Democratic                      
                                                                           objection.                           
H.R. 831.......................  To Permanently      H. Res. 88           Restrictive; makes in              1D.
                                  Extend the Health                        order only the                       
                                  Insurance                                Gibbons amendment;                   
                                  Deduction for the                        Waives all points of                 
                                  Self-Employed.                           order; Contains self-                
                                                                           executing provision.                 
H.R. 830*......................  The Paperwork       H. Res. 91           Open..................            N/A.
                                  Reduction Act.                                                                
H.R. 889.......................  Emergency           H. Res. 92           Restrictive; makes in              1D.
                                  Supplemental/                            order only the Obey                  
                                  Rescinding                               substitute.                          
                                  Certain Budget                                                                
                                  Authority.                                                                    
H.R. 450*......................  Regulatory          H. Res. 93           Restrictive; 10 hr.               N/A.
                                  Moratorium.                              Time Cap on                          
                                                                           amendments; Pre-                     
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           preference.                          
H.R. 1022*.....................  Risk Assessment...  H. Res. 96           Restrictive; 10 hr.               N/A.
                                                                           Time Cap on                          
                                                                           amendments.                          
H.R. 926*......................  Regulatory          H. Res. 100          Open..................            N/A.
                                  Flexibility.                                                                  
H.R. 925*......................  Private Property    H. Res. 101          Restrictive; 12 hr.                1D.
                                  Protection Act.                          time cap on                          
                                                                           amendments; Requires                 
                                                                           Members to pre-print                 
                                                                           their amendments in                  
                                                                           the Record prior to                  
                                                                           the bill's                           
                                                                           consideration for                    
                                                                           amendment, waives                    
                                                                           germaneness and                      
                                                                           budget act points of                 
                                                                           order as well as                     
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           concerning                           
                                                                           appropriating on a                   
                                                                           legislative bill                     
                                                                           against the committee                
                                                                           substitute used as                   
                                                                           base text.                           
H.R. 1058*.....................  Securities          H. Res. 105          Restrictive; 8 hr.                 1D.
                                  Litigation Reform                        time cap on                          
                                  Act.                                     amendments; Pre-                     
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           preference; Makes in                 
                                                                           order the Wyden                      
                                                                           amendment and waives                 
                                                                           germaneness against                  
                                                                           it.                                  
H.R. 988*......................  The Attorney        H. Res. 104          Restrictive; 7 hr.                N/A.
                                  Accountability                           time cap on                          
                                  Act of 1995.                             amendments; Pre-                     
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           preference.                          
H.R. 956*......................  Product Liability   H. Res. 109          Restrictive; makes in          8D; 7R.
                                  and Legal Reform                         order only 15 germane                
                                  Act.                                     amendments and denies                
                                                                           64 germane amendments                
                                                                           from being considered.               
H.R. 1158......................  Making Emergency    H. Res. 115          Restrictive; Combines             N/A.
                                  Supplemental                             emergency H.R. 1158 &                
                                  Appropriations                           nonemergency 1159 and                
                                  and Rescissions.                         strikes the abortion                 
                                                                           provision; makes in                  
                                                                           order only pre-                      
                                                                           printed amendments                   
                                                                           that include offsets                 
                                                                           within the same                      
                                                                           chapter (deeper cuts                 
                                                                           in programs already                  
                                                                           cut); waives points                  
                                                                           of order against                     
                                                                           three amendments;                    
                                                                           waives cl 2 of rule                  
                                                                           XXI against the bill,                
                                                                           cl 2, XXI and cl 7 of                
                                                                           rule XVI against the                 
                                                                           substitute; waives cl                
                                                                           2(e) od rule XXI                     
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           amendments in the                    
                                                                           Record; 10 hr time                   
                                                                           cap on amendments. 30                
                                                                           minutes debate on                    
                                                                           each amendment.                      
H.J. Res. 73*..................  Term Limits.......  H. Res. 116          Restrictive; Makes in           1D; 3R
                                                                           order only 4                         
                                                                           amendments considered                
                                                                           under a ``Queen of                   
                                                                           the Hill'' procedure                 
                                                                           and denies 21 germane                
                                                                           amendments from being                
                                                                           considered.                          
H.R. 4*........................  Welfare Reform....  H. Res. 119          Restrictive; Makes in         5D; 26R.
                                                                           order only 31                        
                                                                           perfecting amendments                
                                                                           and two substitutes;                 
                                                                           Denies 130 germane                   
                                                                           amendments from being                
                                                                           considered; The                      
                                                                           substitutes are to be                
                                                                           considered under a                   
                                                                           ``Queen of the Hill''                
                                                                           procedure; All points                
                                                                           of order are waived                  
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           amendments.                          
H.R. 1271*.....................  Family Privacy Act  H. Res. 125          Open..................            N/A.
H.R. 660*......................  Housing for Older   H. Res. 126          Open..................            N/A.
                                  Persons Act.                                                                  
H.R. 1215*.....................  The Contract With   H. Res. 129          Restrictive; Self                  1D.
                                  America Tax                              Executes language                    
                                  Relief Act of                            that makes tax cuts                  
                                  1995.                                    contingent on the                    
                                                                           adoption of a                        
                                                                           balanced budget plan                 
                                                                           and strikes section                  
                                                                           3006. Makes in order                 
                                                                           only one substitute.                 
                                                                           Waives all points of                 
                                                                           order against the                    
                                                                           bill, substitute made                
                                                                           in order as original                 
                                                                           text and Gephardt                    
                                                                           substitute.                          
H.R. 483.......................  Medicare Select     H. Res. 130          Restrictive; waives cl             1D.
                                  Extension.                               2(1)(6) of rule XI                   
                                                                           against the bill;                    
                                                                           makes H.R. 1391 in                   
                                                                           order as original                    
                                                                           text; makes in order                 
                                                                           only the Dingell                     
                                                                           substitute; allows                   
                                                                           Commerce Committee to                
                                                                           file a report on the                 
                                                                           bill at any time.                    
H.R. 655.......................  Hydrogen Future     H. Res. 136          Open..................            N/A.
                                  Act.                                                                          
H.R. 1361......................  Coast Guard         H. Res. 139          Open; waives sections             N/A.
                                  Authorization.                           302(f) and 308(a) of                 
                                                                           the Congressional                    
                                                                           Budget Act against                   
                                                                           the bill's                           
                                                                           consideration and the                
                                                                           committee substitute;                
                                                                           waives cl 5(a) of                    
                                                                           rule XXI against the                 
                                                                           committee substitute.                
H.R. 961.......................  Clean Water Act...  H. Res. 140          Open; pre-printing                N/A.
                                                                           gets preference;                     
                                                                           waives sections                      
                                                                           302(f) and 602(b) of                 
                                                                           the Budget Act                       
                                                                           against the bill's                   
                                                                           consideration; waives                
                                                                           cl 7 of rule XVI, cl                 
                                                                           5(a) of rule XXI and                 
                                                                           section 302(f) of the                
                                                                           Budget Act against                   
                                                                           the committee                        
                                                                           substitute. Makes in                 
                                                                           order Shuster                        
                                                                           substitute as first                  
                                                                           order of business.                   
H.R. 535.......................  Corning National    H. Res. 144          Open..................            N/A.
                                  Fish Hatchery                                                                 
                                  Conveyance Act.                                                               
H.R. 584.......................  Conveyance of the   H. Res. 145          Open..................            N/A.
                                  Fairport National                                                             
                                  Fish Hatchery to                                                              
                                  the State of Iowa.                                                            
H.R. 614.......................  Conveyance of the   H. Res. 146          Open..................            N/A.
                                  New London                                                                    
                                  National Fish                                                                 
                                  Hatchery                                                                      
                                  Production                                                                    
                                  Facility.                                                                     
H. Con. Res. 67................  Budget Resolution.  H. Res. 149          Restrictive; Makes in          3D; 1R.
                                                                           order 4 substitutes                  
                                                                           under regular order;                 
                                                                           Gephardt, Neumann/                   
                                                                           Solomon, Payne/Owens,                
                                                                           President's Budget if                
                                                                           printed in Record on                 
                                                                           5/17/95; waives all                  
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against substitutes                  
                                                                           and concurrent                       
                                                                           resolution; suspends                 
                                                                           application of Rule                  
                                                                           XLIX with respect to                 
                                                                           the resolution; self-                
                                                                           executes Agriculture                 
                                                                           language.                            
H.R. 1561......................  American Overseas   H. Res. 155          Restrictive; Requires             N/A.
                                  Interests Act of                         amendments to be                     
                                  1995.                                    printed in the Record                
                                                                           prior to their                       
                                                                           consideration; 10 hr.                
                                                                           time cap; waives cl                  
                                                                           2(1)(6) of rule XI                   
                                                                           against the bill's                   
                                                                           consideration; Also                  
                                                                           waives sections                      
                                                                           302(f), 303(a),                      
                                                                           308(a) and 402(a)                    
                                                                           against the bill's                   
                                                                           consideration and the                
                                                                           committee amendment                  
                                                                           in order as original                 
                                                                           text; waives cl 5(a)                 
                                                                           of rule XXI against                  
                                                                           the amendment;                       
                                                                           amendment                            
                                                                           consideration is                     
                                                                           closed at 2:30 p.m.                  
                                                                           on May 25, 1995. Self-               
                                                                           executes provision                   
                                                                           which removes section                
                                                                           2210 from the bill.                  
                                                                           This was done at the                 
                                                                           request of the Budget                
                                                                           Committee.                           
H.R. 1530......................  National Defense    H. Res. 164          Restrictive; Makes in      36R; 18D; 2
                                  Authorization Act                        order only the            Bipartisan.
                                  FY 1996.                                 amendments printed in                
                                                                           the report; waives                   
                                                                           all points of order                  
                                                                           against the bill,                    
                                                                           substitute and                       
                                                                           amendments printed in                
                                                                           the report. Gives the                
                                                                           Chairman en bloc                     
                                                                           authority. Self-                     
                                                                           executes a provision                 
                                                                           which strikes section                
                                                                           807 of the bill;                     
                                                                           provides for an                      
                                                                           additional 30 min. of                
                                                                           debate on Nunn-Lugar                 
                                                                           section; Allows Mr.                  
                                                                           Clinger to offer a                   
                                                                           modification of his                  
                                                                           amendment with the                   
                                                                           concurrence of Ms.                   
                                                                           Collins.                             
H.R. 1817......................  Military            H. Res. 167          Open; waives cl. 2 and            N/A.
                                  Construction                             cl. 6 of rule XXI                    
                                  Appropriations;                          against the bill; 1                  
                                  FY 1996.                                 hr. general debate;                  
                                                                           Uses House passed                    
                                                                           budget numbers as                    
                                                                           threshold for                        
                                                                           spending amounts                     
                                                                           pending passage of                   
                                                                           Budget.                              
H.R. 1854......................  Legislative Branch  H. Res. 169          Restrictive; Makes in        5R; 4D; 2
                                  Appropriations.                          order only 11             Bipartisan.
                                                                           amendments; waives                   
                                                                           sections 302(f) and                  
                                                                           308(a) of the Budget                 
                                                                           Act against the bill                 
                                                                           and cl. 2 and cl. 6                  
                                                                           of rule XXI against                  
                                                                           the bill. All points                 
                                                                           of order are waived                  
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           amendments.                          
H.R. 1868......................  Foreign Operations  H. Res. 170          Open; waives cl. 2,               N/A.
                                  Appropriations.                          cl. 5(b), and cl. 6                  
                                                                           of rule XXI against                  
                                                                           the bill; makes in                   
                                                                           order the Gilman                     
                                                                           amendments as first                  
                                                                           order of business;                   
                                                                           waives all points of                 
                                                                           order against the                    
                                                                           amendments; if                       
                                                                           adopted they will be                 
                                                                           considered as                        
                                                                           original text; waives                
                                                                           cl. 2 of rule XXI                    
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           amendments printed in                
                                                                           the report. Pre-                     
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           priority (Hall)                      
                                                                           (Menendez) (Goss)                    
                                                                           (Smith, NJ).                         
H.R. 1905......................  Energy & Water      H. Res. 171          Open; waives cl. 2 and            N/A.
                                  Appropriations.                          cl. 6 of rule XXI                    
                                                                           against the bill;                    
                                                                           makes in order the                   
                                                                           Shuster amendment as                 
                                                                           the first order of                   
                                                                           business; waives all                 
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           amendment; if adopted                
                                                                           it will be considered                
                                                                           as original text. Pre-               
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           priority.                            
H.J. Res. 79...................  Constitutional      H. Res. 173          Closed; provides one              N/A.
                                  Amendment to                             hour of general                      
                                  Permit Congress                          debate and one motion                
                                  and States to                            to recommit with or                  
                                  Prohibit the                             without instructions;                
                                  Physical                                 if there are                         
                                  Desecration of                           instructions, the MO                 
                                  the American Flag.                       is debatable for 1 hr.               
H.R. 1944......................  Recissions Bill...  H. Res. 175          Restrictive; Provides             N/A.
                                                                           for consideration of                 
                                                                           the bill in the                      
                                                                           House; Permits the                   
                                                                           Chairman of the                      
                                                                           Appropriations                       
                                                                           Committee to offer                   
                                                                           one amendment which                  
                                                                           is unamendable;                      
                                                                           waives all points of                 
                                                                           order against the                    
                                                                           amendment.                           
H.R. 1868 (2nd rule)...........  Foreign Operations  H. Res. 177          Restrictive; Provides             N/A.
                                  Appropriations.                          for further                          
                                                                           consideration of the                 
                                                                           bill; makes in order                 
                                                                           only the four                        
                                                                           amendments printed in                
                                                                           the rules report (20                 
                                                                           min. each). Waives                   
                                                                           all points of order                  
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           amendments; Prohibits                
                                                                           intervening motions                  
                                                                           in the Committee of                  
                                                                           the Whole; Provides                  
                                                                           for an automatic rise                
                                                                           and report following                 
                                                                           the disposition of                   
                                                                           the amendments.                      
H.R. 1977 *Rule Defeated*......  Interior            H. Res. 185          Open; waives sections             N/A.
                                  Appropriations.                          302(f) and 308(a) of                 
                                                                           the Budget Act and cl                
                                                                           2 and cl 6 of rule                   
                                                                           XXI; provides that                   
                                                                           the bill be read by                  
                                                                           title; waives all                    
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against the Tauzin                   
                                                                           amendment; self-                     
                                                                           executes Budget                      
                                                                           Committee amendment;                 
                                                                           waives cl 2(e) of                    
                                                                           rule XXI against                     
                                                                           amendments to the                    
                                                                           bill; Pre-printing                   
                                                                           gets priority.                       
H.R. 1977......................  Interior            H.Res. 187           Open; waives sections             N/A.
                                  Appropriations.                          302(f), 306 and                      
                                                                           308(a) of the Budget                 
                                                                           Act; waives clauses 2                
                                                                           and 6 of rule XXI                    
                                                                           against provisions in                
                                                                           the bill; waives all                 
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against the Tauzin                   
                                                                           amendment; provides                  
                                                                           that the bill be read                
                                                                           by title; self-                      
                                                                           executes Budget                      
                                                                           Committee amendment                  
                                                                           and makes NEA funding                
                                                                           subject to House                     
                                                                           passed authorization;                
                                                                           waives cl 2(e) of                    
                                                                           rule XXI against the                 
                                                                           amendments to the                    
                                                                           bill; Pre-printing                   
                                                                           gets priority.                       

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H.R. 1976......................  Agriculture         H. Res. 188          Open; waives clauses 2            N/A.
                                  Appropriations.                          and 6 of rule XXI                    
                                                                           against provisions in                
                                                                           the bill; provides                   
                                                                           that the bill be read                
                                                                           by title; Makes Skeen                
                                                                           amendment first order                
                                                                           of business, if                      
                                                                           adopted the amendment                
                                                                           will be considered as                
                                                                           base text (10 min.);                 
                                                                           Pre-printing gets                    
                                                                           priority.                            
H.R. 1977 (3rd rule)...........  Interior            H. Res. 189          Restrictive; provides             N/A.
                                  Appropriations.                          for the further                      
                                                                           consideration of the                 
                                                                           bill; allows only                    
                                                                           amendments pre-                      
                                                                           printed before July                  
                                                                           14th to be                           
                                                                           considered; limits                   
                                                                           motions to rise.                     
H.R. 2020......................  Treasury Postal     H. Res. 190          Open; waives cl. 2 and            N/A.
                                  Appropriations.                          cl. 6 of rule XXI                    
                                                                           against provisions in                
                                                                           the bill; provides                   
                                                                           the bill be read by                  
                                                                           title; Pre-printing                  
                                                                           gets priority.                       
H.J. Res. 96...................  Disapproving MFN    H. Res. 193          Restrictive; provides             N/A.
                                  for China.                               for consideration in                 
                                                                           the House of H.R.                    
                                                                           2058 (90 min.) And                   
                                                                           H.J. Res. 96 (1 hr).                 
                                                                           Waives certain                       
                                                                           provisions of the                    
                                                                           Trade Act.                           
H.R. 2002......................  Transportation      H. Res. 194          Open; waives cl. 3 0f             N/A.
                                  Appropriations.                          rule XIII and section                
                                                                           401 (a) of the CBA                   
                                                                           against consideration                
                                                                           of the bill; waives                  
                                                                           cl. 6 and cl. 2 of                   
                                                                           rule XXI against                     
                                                                           provisions in the                    
                                                                           bill; Makes in order                 
                                                                           the Clinger/Solomon                  
                                                                           amendment waives all                 
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against the amendment                
                                                                           (Line Item Veto);                    
                                                                           provides the bill be                 
                                                                           read by title; Pre-                  
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           priority. *RULE                      
                                                                           AMENDED*.                            
H.R. 70........................  Exports of Alaskan  H. Res. 197          Open; Makes in order              N/A.
                                  North Slope Oil.                         the Resources                        
                                                                           Committee amendment                  
                                                                           in the nature of a                   
                                                                           substitute as                        
                                                                           original text; Pre-                  
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           priority; Provides a                 
                                                                           Senate hook-up with                  
                                                                           S. 395.                              
H.R. 2076......................  Commerce, Justice   H. Res. 198          Open; waives cl. 2 and            N/A.
                                  Appropriations.                          cl. 6 of rule XXI                    
                                                                           against provisions in                
                                                                           the bill; Pre-                       
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           priority; provides                   
                                                                           the bill be read by                  
                                                                           title.                               
H.R. 2099......................  VA/HUD              H. Res. 201          Open; waives cl. 2 and            N/A.
                                  Appropriations.                          cl. 6 of rule XXI                    
                                                                           against provisions in                
                                                                           the bill; Provides                   
                                                                           that the amendment in                
                                                                           part 1 of the report                 
                                                                           is the first                         
                                                                           business, if adopted                 
                                                                           it will be considered                
                                                                           as base text (30                     
                                                                           min.); waives all                    
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against the Klug and                 
                                                                           Davis amendments; Pre-               
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           priority; Provides                   
                                                                           that the bill be read                
                                                                           by title.                            
S. 21..........................  Termination of      H. Res. 204          Restrictive; 3 hours               ID.
                                  U.S. Arms Embargo                        of general debate;                   
                                  on Bosnia.                               Makes in order an                    
                                                                           amendment to be                      
                                                                           offered by the                       
                                                                           Minority Leader or a                 
                                                                           designee (1 hr); If                  
                                                                           motion to recommit                   
                                                                           has instructions it                  
                                                                           can only be offered                  
                                                                           by the Minority                      
                                                                           Leader or a designee.                
H.R. 2126......................  Defense             H. Res. 205          Open; waives cl.                  N/A.
                                  Appropriations.                          2(l)(6) of rule XI                   
                                                                           and section 306 of                   
                                                                           the Congressional                    
                                                                           Budget Act against                   
                                                                           consideration of the                 
                                                                           bill; waives cl. 2                   
                                                                           and cl. 6 of rule XXI                
                                                                           against provisions in                
                                                                           the bill; self-                      
                                                                           executes a strike of                 
                                                                           sections 8021 and                    
                                                                           8024 of the bill as                  
                                                                           requested by the                     
                                                                           Budget Committee; Pre-               
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           priority; Provides                   
                                                                           the bill be read by                  
                                                                           title.                               
H.R. 1555......................  Communications Act  H. Res. 207          Restrictive; waives        2R/3D/3 Bi-
                                  of 1995.                                 sec. 302(f) of the          partisan.
                                                                           Budget Act against                   
                                                                           consideration of the                 
                                                                           bill; Makes in order                 
                                                                           the Commerce                         
                                                                           Committee amendment                  
                                                                           as original text and                 
                                                                           waives sec. 302(f) of                
                                                                           the Budget Act and                   
                                                                           cl. 5(a) of rule XXI                 
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           amendment; Makes in                  
                                                                           order the Bliely                     
                                                                           amendment (30 min.)                  
                                                                           as the first order of                
                                                                           business, if adopted                 
                                                                           it will be original                  
                                                                           text; makes in order                 
                                                                           only the amendments                  
                                                                           printed in the report                
                                                                           and waives all points                
                                                                           of order against the                 
                                                                           amendments; provides                 
                                                                           a Senate hook-up with                
                                                                           S. 652.                              
H.R. 2127......................  Labor/HHS           H. Res. 208          Open; Provides that               N/A.
                                  Appropriations                           the first order of                   
                                  Act.                                     business will be the                 
                                                                           managers amendments                  
                                                                           (10 min.), if adopted                
                                                                           they will be                         
                                                                           considered as base                   
                                                                           text; waives cl. 2                   
                                                                           and cl. 6 of rule XXI                
                                                                           against provisions in                
                                                                           the bill; waives all                 
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against certain                      
                                                                           amendments printed in                
                                                                           the report; Pre-                     
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           priority; Provides                   
                                                                           the bill be read by                  
                                                                           title.                               
H.R. 1594......................  Economically        H. Res. 215          Open; 2 hr of gen.                N/A.
                                  Targeted                                 debate. makes in                     
                                  Investments.                             order the committee                  
                                                                           substitute as                        
                                                                           original text.                       
H.R. 1655......................  Intelligence        H. Res. 216          Restrictive; waives               N/A.
                                  Authorization.                           sections 302(f),                     
                                                                           308(a) and 401(b) of                 
                                                                           the Budget Act. Makes                
                                                                           in order the                         
                                                                           committee substitute                 
                                                                           as modified by Govt.                 
                                                                           Reform amend                         
                                                                           (striking sec. 505)                  
                                                                           and an amendment                     
                                                                           striking title VII.                  
                                                                           Cl 7 of rule XVI and                 
                                                                           cl 5(a) of rule XXI                  
                                                                           are waived against                   
                                                                           the substitute.                      
                                                                           Sections 302(f) and                  
                                                                           401(b) of the CBA are                
                                                                           also waived against                  
                                                                           the substitute.                      
                                                                           Amendments must also                 
                                                                           be pre-printed in the                
                                                                           Congressional record.                
H.R. 1162......................  Deficit Reduction   H. Res. 218          Open; waives cl 7 of              N/A.
                                  Lock Box.                                rule XVI against the                 
                                                                           committee substitute                 
                                                                           made in order as                     
                                                                           original text; Pre-                  
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           priority.                            
H.R. 1670......................  Federal             H. Res. 219          Open; waives sections             N/A.
                                  Acquisition                              302(f) and 308(a) of                 
                                  Reform Act of                            the Budget Act                       
                                  1995.                                    against consideration                
                                                                           of the bill; bill                    
                                                                           will be read by                      
                                                                           title; waives cl 5(a)                
                                                                           of rule XXI and                      
                                                                           section 302(f) of the                
                                                                           Budget Act against                   
                                                                           the committee                        
                                                                           substitute. Pre-                     
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           priority.                            
H.R. 1617......................  To Consolidate and  H. Res. 222          Open; waives section              N/A.
                                  Reform Workforce                         302(f) and 401(b) of                 
                                  Development and                          the Budget Act                       
                                  Literacy Programs                        against the                          
                                  Act (CAREERS).                           substitute made in                   
                                                                           order as original                    
                                                                           text (H.R. 2332), cl.                
                                                                           5(a) of rule XXI is                  
                                                                           also waived against                  
                                                                           the substitute.                      
                                                                           provides for                         
                                                                           consideration of the                 
                                                                           managers amendment                   
                                                                           (10 min.) If adopted,                
                                                                           it is considered as                  
                                                                           base text.                           
H.R. 2274......................  National Highway    H. Res. 224          Open; waives section              N/A.
                                  System                                   302(f) of the Budget                 
                                  Designation Act                          Act against                          
                                  of 1995.                                 consideration of the                 
                                                                           bill; Makes H.R. 2349                
                                                                           in order as original                 
                                                                           text; waives section                 
                                                                           302(f) of the Budget                 
                                                                           Act against the                      
                                                                           substitute; provides                 
                                                                           for the consideration                
                                                                           of a managers                        
                                                                           amendment (10 min.)                  
                                                                           If adopted, it is                    
                                                                           considered as base                   
                                                                           text; Pre-printing                   
                                                                           gets priority.                       
H.R. 927.......................  Cuban Liberty and   H. Res. 225          Restrictive; waives cl           2R/2D
                                  Democratic                               2(L)(2)(B) of rule XI                
                                  Solidarity Act of                        against consideration                
                                  1995.                                    of the bill; makes in                
                                                                           order H.R. 2347 as                   
                                                                           base text; waives cl                 
                                                                           7 of rule XVI against                
                                                                           the substitute; Makes                
                                                                           Hamilton amendment                   
                                                                           the first amendment                  
                                                                           to be considered (1                  
                                                                           hr). Makes in order                  
                                                                           only amendments                      
                                                                           printed in the report.               
H.R. 743.......................  The Teamwork for    H. Res. 226          Open; waives cl                   N/A.
                                  Employees and                            2(l)(2)(b) of rule XI                
                                  managers Act of                          against consideration                
                                  1995.                                    of the bill; makes in                
                                                                           order the committee                  
                                                                           amendment as original                
                                                                           text; Pre-printing                   
                                                                           get priority.                        
H.R. 1170......................  3-Judge Court for   H. Res. 227          Open; makes in order a            N/A.
                                  Certain                                  committee amendment                  
                                  Injunctions.                             as original text; Pre-               
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           priority.                            
H.R. 1601......................  International       H. Res. 228          Open; makes in order a            N/A.
                                  Space Station                            committee amendment                  
                                  Authorization Act                        as original text; pre-               
                                  of 1995.                                 printing gets                        
                                                                           priority.                            
H.J. Res. 108..................  Making Continuing   H. Res. 230          Closed; Provides for    ..............
                                  Appropriations                           the immediate                        
                                  for FY 1996.                             consideration of the                 
                                                                           CR; one motion to                    
                                                                           recommit which may                   
                                                                           have instructions                    
                                                                           only if offered by                   
                                                                           the Minority Leader                  
                                                                           or a designee.                       
H.R. 2405......................  Omnibus Civilian    H. Res. 234          Open; self-executes a             N/A.
                                  Science                                  provision striking                   
                                  Authorization Act                        section 304(b)(3) of                 
                                  of 1995.                                 the bill (Commerce                   
                                                                           Committee request);                  
                                                                           Pre-printing gets                    
                                                                           priority.                            
H.R. 2259......................  To Disapprove       H. Res. 237          Restrictive; waives cl              1D
                                  Certain                                  2(l)(2)(B) of rule XI                
                                  Sentencing                               against the bill's                   
                                  Guideline                                consideration; makes                 
                                  Amendments.                              in order the text of                 
                                                                           the Senate bill S.                   
                                                                           1254 as original                     
                                                                           text; Makes in order                 
                                                                           only a Conyers                       
                                                                           substitute; provides                 
                                                                           a senate hook-up                     
                                                                           after adoption.                      
H.R. 2425......................  Medicare            H. Res. 238          Restrictive; waives                 1D
                                  Preservation Act.                        all points of order                  
                                                                           against the bill's                   
                                                                           consideration; makes                 
                                                                           in order the text of                 
                                                                           H.R. 2485 as original                
                                                                           text; waives all                     
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against H.R. 2485;                   
                                                                           makes in order only                  
                                                                           an amendment offered                 
                                                                           by the Minority                      
                                                                           Leader or a designee;                
                                                                           waives all points of                 
                                                                           order against the                    
                                                                           amendment; waives cl                 
                                                                           5 of rule                 
                                                                           XXI (\3/5\                           
                                                                           requirement on votes                 
                                                                           raising taxes).                      
H.R. 2492......................  Legislative Branch  H. Res. 239          Restrictive; provides             N/A.
                                  Appropriations                           for consideration of                 
                                  Bill.                                    the bill in the House.               
H.R. 2491......................  7 Year Balanced     H. Res. 245          Restrictive; makes in               1D
H. Con. Res. 109...............   Budget                                   order H.R. 2517 as                   
                                  Reconciliation                           original text; waives                
                                  Social Security                          all pints of order                   
                                  Earnings Test                            against the bill;                    
                                  Reform.                                  Makes in order only                  
                                                                           H.R. 2530 as an                      
                                                                           amendment only if                    
                                                                           offered by the                       
                                                                           Minority Leader or a                 
                                                                           designee; waives all                 
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           amendment; waives cl                 
                                                                           5 of rule                 
                                                                           XXI (\3/5\                           
                                                                           requirement on votes                 
                                                                           raising taxes).                      
H.R. 1833......................  Partial Birth       H. Res. 251          Closed................            N/A.
                                  Abortion Ban Act                                                              
                                  of 1995.                                                                      
H.R. 2546......................  D.C.                H. Res. 252          Restrictive; waives                N/A
                                  Appropriations FY                        all points of order                  
                                  1996.                                    against the bill's                   
                                                                           consideration; Makes                 
                                                                           in order the Walsh                   
                                                                           amendment as the                     
                                                                           first order of                       
                                                                           business (10 min.);                  
                                                                           if adopted it is                     
                                                                           considered as base                   
                                                                           text; waives cl 2 and                
                                                                           6 of rule XXI against                
                                                                           the bill; makes in                   
                                                                           order the Bonilla,                   
                                                                           Gunderson and                        
                                                                           Hostettler amendments                
                                                                           (30 min.); waives all                
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           amendments; debate on                
                                                                           any further                          
                                                                           amendments is limited                
                                                                           to 30 min. each.                     
H.J. Res. 115..................  Further Continuing  H. Res. 257          Closed; Provides for               N/A
                                  Appropriations                           the immediate                        
                                  for FY 1996.                             consideration of the                 
                                                                           CR; one motion to                    
                                                                           recommit which may                   
                                                                           have instructions                    
                                                                           only if offered by                   
                                                                           the Minority Leader                  
                                                                           or a designee.                       
H.R. 2586......................  Temporary Increase  H. Res. 258          Restrictive; Provides               5R
                                  in the Statutory                         for the immediate                    
                                  Debt Limit.                              consideration of the                 
                                                                           CR; one motion to                    
                                                                           recommit which may                   
                                                                           have instructions                    
                                                                           only if offered by                   
                                                                           the Minority Leader                  
                                                                           or a designee; self-                 
                                                                           executes 4 amendments                
                                                                           in the rule; Solomon,                
                                                                           Medicare Coverage of                 
                                                                           Certain Anti-Cancer                  
                                                                           Drug Treatments,                     
                                                                           Habeas Corpus Reform,                
                                                                           Chrysler (MI); makes                 
                                                                           in order the Walker                  
                                                                           amend (40 min.) on                   
                                                                           regulatory reform.                   
H.R. 2539......................  ICC Termination...  H. Res. 259          Open; waives section    ..............
                                                                           302(f) and section                   
                                                                           308(a).                              
H.J. Res. 115..................  Further Continuing  H. Res. 261          Closed; provides for              N/A.
                                  Appropriations                           the immediate                        
                                  for FY 1996.                             consideration of a                   
                                                                           motion by the                        
                                                                           Majority Leader or                   
                                                                           his designees to                     
                                                                           dispose of the Senate                
                                                                           amendments (1hr).                    
H.R. 2586......................  Temporary Increase  H. Res. 262          Closed; provides for              N/A.
                                  in the Statutory                         the immediate                        
                                  Limit on the                             consideration of a                   
                                  Public Debt.                             motion by the                        
                                                                           Majority Leader or                   
                                                                           his designees to                     
                                                                           dispose of the Senate                
                                                                           amendments (1hr).                    
H. Res. 250....................  House Gift Rule     H. Res. 268          Closed; provides for                2R
                                  Reform.                                  consideration of the                 
                                                                           bill in the House; 30                
                                                                           min. of debate; makes                
                                                                           in order the Burton                  
                                                                           amendment and the                    
                                                                           Gingrich en bloc                     
                                                                           amendment (30 min.                   
                                                                           each); waives all                    
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           amendments; Gingrich                 
                                                                           is only in order if                  
                                                                           Burton fails or is                   
                                                                           not offered.                         
H.R. 2564......................  Lobbying            H. Res. 269          Open; waives cl.                  N/A.
                                  Disclosure Act of                        2(l)(6) of rule XI                   
                                  1995.                                    against the bill's                   
                                                                           consideration; waives                
                                                                           all points of order                  
                                                                           against the Istook                   
                                                                           and McIntosh                         
                                                                           amendments.                          
H.R. 2606......................  Prohibition on      H. Res. 273          Restrictive; waives               N/A.
                                  Funds for Bosnia                         all points of order                  
                                  Deployment.                              against the bill's                   
                                                                           consideration;                       
                                                                           provides one motion                  
                                                                           to amend if offered                  
                                                                           by the Minority                      
                                                                           Leader or designee (1                
                                                                           hr non-amendable);                   
                                                                           motion to recommit                   
                                                                           which may have                       
                                                                           instructions only if                 
                                                                           offered by Minority                  
                                                                           Leader or his                        
                                                                           designee; if Minority                
                                                                           Leader motion is not                 
                                                                           offered debate time                  
                                                                           will be extended by 1                
                                                                           hr.                                  

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H.R. 1788......................  Amtrak Reform and   H. Res. 289          Open; waives all                  N/A.
                                  Privatization Act                        points of order                      
                                  of 1995.                                 against the bill's                   
                                                                           consideration; makes                 
                                                                           in order the                         
                                                                           Transportation                       
                                                                           substitute modified                  
                                                                           by the amend in the                  
                                                                           report; Bill read by                 
                                                                           title; waives all                    
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           substitute; makes in                 
                                                                           order a managers                     
                                                                           amend as the first                   
                                                                           order of business, if                
                                                                           adopted it is                        
                                                                           considered base text                 
                                                                           (10 min.); waives all                
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           amendment; Pre-                      
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           priority.                            
H.R. 1350......................  Maritime Security   H. Res. 287          Open; makes in order              N/A.
                                  Act of 1995.                             the committee                        
                                                                           substitute as                        
                                                                           original text; makes                 
                                                                           in order a managers                  
                                                                           amendment which if                   
                                                                           adopted is considered                
                                                                           as original text (20                 
                                                                           min.) unamendable;                   
                                                                           pre-printing gets                    
                                                                           priority.                            
H.R. 2621......................  To Protect Federal  H. Res.              Closed; provides for              N/A.
                                  Trust Funds.                             the adoption of the                  
                                                                           Ways & Means                         
                                                                           amendment printed in                 
                                                                           the report. 1 hr. of                 
                                                                           general debate.                      
H.R. 1745......................  Utah Public Lands   H.Res. 303           Open; waives cl                   N/A.
                                  Management Act of                        2(l)(6) of rule XI                   
                                  1995.                                    and sections 302(f)                  
                                                                           and 311(a) of the                    
                                                                           Budget Act against                   
                                                                           the bill's                           
                                                                           consideration. Makes                 
                                                                           in order the                         
                                                                           Resources substitute                 
                                                                           as base text and                     
                                                                           waives cl 7 of rule                  
                                                                           XVI and sections                     
                                                                           302(f) and 308(a) of                 
                                                                           the Budget Act; makes                
                                                                           in order a managers'                 
                                                                           amend as the first                   
                                                                           order of business, if                
                                                                           adopted it is                        
                                                                           considered base text                 
                                                                           (10 min).                            
H.Res. 304.....................  Providing for       N/A                  Closed; makes in order          1D; 2R
                                  Debate and                               three resolutions;                   
                                  Consideration of                         H.R. 2770 (Dorman),                  
                                  Three Measures                           H.Res. 302 (Buyer),                  
                                  Relating to U.S.                         and H.Res. 306                       
                                  Troop Deployments                        (Gephardt); 1 hour of                
                                  in Bosnia.                               debate on each..                     
H.Res. 309.....................  Revised Budget      H.Res. 309           Closed; provides 2                N/A.
                                  Resolution.                              hours of general                     
                                                                           debate in the House..                
H.R. 558.......................  Texas Low-Level     H.Res. 313           Open; pre-printing                N/A.
                                  Radioactive Waste                        gets priority.                       
                                  Disposal Compact                                                              
                                  Consent Act.                                                                  
H.R. 2677......................  The National Parks  H. Res. 323          Closed; consideration             N/A.
                                  and National                             in the House; self-                  
                                  Wildlife Refuge                          executes Young                       
                                  Systems Freedom                          amendment.                           
                                  Act of 1995.                                                                  
                                   PROCEDURE IN THE 104TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION                                   
H.R. 1643......................  To authorize the    H. Res. 334          Closed; provides to               N/A.
                                  extension of                             take the bill from                   
                                  nondiscriminatory                        the Speaker's table                  
                                  treatment (MFN)                          with the Senate                      
                                  to the products                          amendment, and                       
                                  of Bulgaria.                             consider in the House                
                                                                           the motion printed in                
                                                                           the Rules Committee                  
                                                                           report; 1 hr. of                     
                                                                           general debate;                      
                                                                           previous question is                 
                                                                           considered as ordered.               
H.J. Res. 134..................  Making continuing   H. Res. 336          Closed; provides to               N/A.
H. Con. Res. 131...............   appropriations/                          take from the                        
                                  establishing                             Speaker's table H.J.                 
                                  procedures making                        Res. 134 with the                    
                                  the transmission                         Senate amendment and                 
                                  of the continuing                        concur with the                      
                                  resolution H.J.                          Senate amendment with                
                                  Res. 134.                                an amendment (H. Con.                
                                                                           Res. 131) which is                   
                                                                           self-executed in the                 
                                                                           rule. The rule                       
                                                                           provides further that                
                                                                           the bill shall not be                
                                                                           sent back to the                     
                                                                           Senate until the                     
                                                                           Senate agrees to the                 
                                                                           provisions of H. Con.                
                                                                           Res. 131.                            
H. R. 1358.....................  Conveyance of       H. Res. 338          Closed; provides to               N/A.
                                  National Marine                          take the bill from                   
                                  Fisheries Service                        the 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.                     
H.R. 994.......................  Regulatory Sunset   H. Res. 368          Open rule; makes in                N/A
                                  & Review Act of                          order the Hyde                       
                                  1995.                                    substitute printed in                
                                                                           the Record as                        
                                                                           original text; waives                
                                                                           cl 7 of rule XVI                     
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           substitute; Pre-                     
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           priority; vacates the                
                                                                           House action on S.                   
                                                                           219 and provides to                  
                                                                           take the bill from                   
                                                                           the Speakers table                   
                                                                           and consider the                     
                                                                           Senate bill; allows                  
                                                                           Chrmn. Clinger a                     
                                                                           motion to strike all                 
                                                                           after the enacting                   
                                                                           clause of the Senate                 
                                                                           bill and insert the                  
                                                                           text of H.R. 994 as                  
                                                                           passed by the House                  
                                                                           (1 hr) debate; waives                
                                                                           germaneness against                  
                                                                           the motion; provides                 
                                                                           if the motion is                     
                                                                           adopted that it is in                
                                                                           order for the House                  
                                                                           to insist on its                     
                                                                           amendments and                       
                                                                           request a conference.                
H.R. 3021......................  To Guarantee the    H. Res. 371          Closed rule; gives one             N/A
                                  Continuing Full                          motion to recommit,                  
                                  Investment of                            which if it contains                 
                                  Social Security                          instructions, may                    
                                  and Other Federal                        only if offered by                   
                                  Funds in                                 the Minority Leader                  
                                  Obligations of                           or his designee.                     
                                  the United States.                                                            
H.R. 3019......................  A Further           H.Res. 372           Restrictive; self-               2D/2R
                                  Downpayment                              executes CBO language                
                                  Toward a Balanced                        regarding contingency                
                                  Budget.                                  funds in section 2 of                
                                                                           the rule; makes in                   
                                                                           order only the                       
                                                                           amendments printed in                
                                                                           the report; Lowey (20                
                                                                           min), Istook (20                     
                                                                           min), Crapo (20 min),                
                                                                           Obey (1 hr); waives                  
                                                                           all points of order                  
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           amendments; give one                 
                                                                           motion to recommit,                  
                                                                           which if contains                    
                                                                           instructions, may                    
                                                                           only if offered by                   
                                                                           the Minority Leader                  
                                                                           or his designee.                     
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Contract Bills, 67% restrictive; 33% open. ** All legislation 1st Session, 53% restrictive; 47% open. ***     
  Legislation 2d Session. 88% restrictive; 12% open. **** All legislation 104th Congress 59% restrictive; 41%   
  open. ***** Restrictive rules are those which limit the number of amendments which can be offered, and include
  so-called modified open and modified closed rules as well as completely closed rules and rules providing for  
  consideration in the House as opposed to the Committee of the Whole. This definition of restrictive rule is   
  taken from the Republican chart of resolutions reported from the Rules Committee in the 103d Congress. N/A    
  means not available.                                                                                          


  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, the rule is in the eye of the beholder, and we have a 
slightly different perspective on the structure of these rules. At this 
point I include in the Record the following chart that will go along 
with that from the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Moakley].

  THE AMENDMENT PROCESS UNDER SPECIAL RULES REPORTED BY THE RULES COMMITTEE,\1\ 103D CONGRESS V. 104TH CONGRESS 
                                              [As of March 7, 1996]                                             
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                  103d Congress                        104th Congress           
              Rule type              ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                       Number of rules    Percent of total   Number of rules    Percent of total
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Open/Modified-open \2\..............                 46                 44                 59                 63
Modified Closed \3\.................                 49                 47                 22                 23
Closed \4\..........................                  9                  9                 13                 14
                                     ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Total.........................                104                100                 94                100
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\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).                                                                             


                          SPECIAL RULES REPORTED BY THE RULES COMMITTEE, 104TH CONGRESS                         
                                              [As of March 7, 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).            

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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  Tabled (2/28/96).
                                                                        Refuge.                                 
H. Res. 366 (2/27/96)..........  MC...............  H.R. 2854........  Farm Bill.............  PQ: 228-182 A:   
                                                                                                244-168 (2/28/  
                                                                                                96).            
H. Res. 368 (2/28/96)..........  O................  H.R. 994.........  Small Business Growth.  .................
H. Res. 371 (3/6/96)...........  C................  H.R. 3021........  Debt Limit Increase...  A: voice vote (3/
                                                                                                7/96).          
H. Res. 372 (3/6/96)...........  MC...............  H.R. 3019........  Cont. Approps. FY 1996  .................
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. DREIER. I yield to the gentleman from Massachusetts.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I am using the same perspective we used 
last Congress.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. 
Obey].
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, let me simply ask with respect to the recent 
comments of the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Walker] with respect 
to section 4002, does that mean in essence that what the gentleman is 
saying is that none of the funds in this bill will be provided unless 
we in fact go through an entire new budget process, an entire new 
reconciliation process?
  I think the gentleman from Pennsylvania indicated the answer was yes. 
If that is the case, I would like to know how this legislation is 
supposed to speed us to a compromise on these issues that are already 
almost 6 months overdue.
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, we are looking for the gentleman from 
Pennsylvania [Mr. Walker] to respond. I am sorry, I do not have a 
response for my friend.
  Mr. OBEY. I thank the chairman anyway. I think the gentleman from 
Pennsylvania [Mr. Walker] has made clear that what they evidently 
intend is an entirely new budget resolution and reconciliation process. 
This is no way to speed things up.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.


                    amendment offered by mr. dreier

  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I offer an amendment.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Amendment offered by Mr. Dreier: Page 3, after 12, add the 
     following:
       ``Page 539, line 15, strike `legislation' and insert in 
     lieu thereof `reconciliation legislation'.''.


[[Page H1807]]


  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I move the previous question on the 
amendment and the resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the amendment offered by 
the gentleman from California [Mr. Dreier].
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I object to the vote on the ground that a 
quorum is not present and make the point of order that a quorum is not 
present.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Evidently a quorum is not present.
  The Sergeant at Arms will notify absent Members.
  Without objection, the Chair will reduce to 5 minutes the vote on the 
resolution, if ordered.
  There was no objection.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 228, 
nays 183, not voting 20, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 49]

                               YEAS--228

     Allard
     Archer
     Armey
     Bachus
     Baker (CA)
     Baker (LA)
     Ballenger
     Barrett (NE)
     Bartlett
     Barton
     Bass
     Bateman
     Bereuter
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bliley
     Blute
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bono
     Brownback
     Bryant (TN)
     Bunn
     Bunning
     Burr
     Burton
     Buyer
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canady
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chambliss
     Chenoweth
     Christensen
     Chrysler
     Clinger
     Coble
     Coburn
     Collins (GA)
     Combest
     Condit
     Cooley
     Crane
     Crapo
     Cremeans
     Cubin
     Cunningham
     Davis
     Deal
     DeLay
     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
     Geren
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Goodlatte
     Goodling
     Goss
     Graham
     Greenwood
     Gunderson
     Gutknecht
     Hall (TX)
     Hancock
     Hansen
     Hastert
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Heineman
     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
     McDade
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McIntosh
     McKeon
     Metcalf
     Meyers
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Molinari
     Moorhead
     Morella
     Myrick
     Nethercutt
     Neumann
     Ney
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Oxley
     Packard
     Parker
     Paxon
     Petri
     Pombo
     Porter
     Portman
     Pryce
     Quillen
     Quinn
     Radanovich
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Riggs
     Roberts
     Rogers
     Rohrabacher
     Roth
     Roukema
     Royce
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Saxton
     Schaefer
     Schiff
     Seastrand
     Sensenbrenner
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Shuster
     Skeen
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Solomon
     Souder
     Spence
     Stearns
     Stockman
     Stump
     Talent
     Tate
     Tauzin
     Taylor (NC)
     Thomas
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Torkildsen
     Upton
     Vucanovich
     Waldholtz
     Walker
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Watts (OK)
     Weldon (FL)
     Weller
     White
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Zeliff
     Zimmer

                               NAYS--183

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

                             NOT VOTING--20

     Barr
     Becerra
     Bryant (TX)
     Chapman
     Clay
     Collins (MI)
     Cox
     Diaz-Balart
     Gilman
     Green
     Hayes
     Herger
     Myers
     Peterson (MN)
     Pomeroy
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Scarborough
     Stokes
     Weldon (PA)
     Wilson

                              {time}  1318

  The Clerk announced the following pair:
  On this vote:

       Ms. Ros-Lehtinen for, with Mr. Stokes against.

  Mr. ZELIFF changed his vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                          personal explanation

  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 49, I was inadvertently 
delay. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.''


                          personal explanation

  Mr. POMEROY. Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably detained and missed 
rollcall vote No. 49. I would like the Record to reflect that I would 
have voted ``nay'' on that rollcall vote.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. LaHood). The question is on the 
resolution, as amended.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.


                             recorded vote

  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 235, 
noes 175, not voting 21, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 50]

                               AYES--235

     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
     Borski
     Brownback
     Bryant (TN)
     Bunn
     Bunning
     Burr
     Burton
     Buyer
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canady
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chambliss
     Christensen
     Chrysler
     Clinger
     Coble
     Collins (GA)
     Combest
     Cooley
     Crane
     Crapo
     Cremeans
     Cubin
     Cunningham
     Deal
     DeLay
     Dickey
     Doolittle
     Dornan
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Ehlers
     Ehrlich
     Emerson
     English
     Ensign
     Everett
     Ewing
     Fawell
     Fields (TX)
     Foley
     Forbes
     Fowler
     Fox
     Franks (CT)
     Franks (NJ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Frisa
     Funderburk
     Furse
     Gallegly
     Ganske
     Gekas
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Goodlatte
     Gordon
     Goss
     Graham
     Greenwood
     Gunderson
     Gutknecht
     Hall (TX)
     Hancock
     Hansen
     Hastert
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Heineman
     Herger
     Hilleary
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Hoke
     Holden
     Horn
     Hostettler
     Houghton
     Hunter
     Hutchinson
     Hyde
     Inglis
     Istook
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Kanjorski
     Kasich
     Kelly
     Kim
     King
     Kingston
     Klug
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     LaHood
     Largent
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Laughlin
     Lazio
     Leach
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Lightfoot
     Linder
     LoBiondo
     Longley
     Lucas
     Manzullo
     Martini
     Mascara
     McCollum
     McCrery
     McDade
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McIntosh
     McKeon
     Metcalf
     Meyers
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Molinari
     Mollohan
     Moorhead
     Morella
     Murtha
     Myrick
     Nethercutt
     Neumann
     Ney
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Oxley
     Packard
     Parker
     Paxon
     Petri
     Pombo
     Porter
     Portman
     Poshard
     Pryce
     Quillen
     Quinn
     Radanovich
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Riggs
     Roberts
     Rogers
     Rohrabacher
     Roukema
     Royce
     Salmon
     Sanford

[[Page H1808]]


     Saxton
     Schaefer
     Schiff
     Seastrand
     Sensenbrenner
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Shuster
     Skeen
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Solomon
     Souder
     Spence
     Stearns
     Stockman
     Stump
     Talent
     Tate
     Tauzin
     Taylor (MS)
     Taylor (NC)
     Thomas
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Torkildsen
     Upton
     Volkmer
     Vucanovich
     Waldholtz
     Walker
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Watts (OK)
     Weldon (FL)
     Weller
     White
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Zeliff

                               NOES--175

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

                             NOT VOTING--21

     Becerra
     Bryant (TX)
     Chapman
     Chenoweth
     Clay
     Collins (MI)
     Cox
     Davis
     Diaz-Balart
     Flanagan
     Goodling
     Green
     Hayes
     Livingston
     Myers
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roth
     Scarborough
     Stokes
     Weldon (PA)
     Wilson

                              {time}  1326

  The Clerk announced the following pair:
  On this vote:

       Ms. Ros-Lehtinen for, with Mr. Stokes against.

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

                          ____________________