[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 40 (Thursday, March 21, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H2564-H2577]
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         THE PRESIDENT WILL NOT ASK SECRETARY O'LEARY TO RESIGN

  (Mr. TIAHRT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TIAHRT. Madam Speaker, Vice President Gore, in his national 
performance review, indicated that Clinton's Secretary of Energy, 
Secretary O'Leary, and the Department of Energy, was 40 percent 
inefficient in their environmental management and it is going to cost 
the taxpayers $70 billion over the next 30 years.
  Madam Speaker, what does that mean to taxpayers or what is that like? 
What is the equivalent of being 40 percent inefficient? That is like 
filling your car with gasoline, putting 10 gallons of it in, or running 
10 gallons out of the pump and 4 of it goes on the ground and 6 of it 
goes in your tank. That is like sitting down at a restaurant, for every 
five bites you attempt to take, two of them end up in your lap. That is 
like sending your child to school and expecting your child to sleep for 
more than 2\1/2\ hours every day.
  Forty percent inefficient, I think that is too much for the 
taxpayers. Seventy billion dollars, too much of a burden for the 
taxpayers. Yet it is condoned by Mr. Clinton. He will not call for 
reforms. He will not abolish the waste. He will not ask Secretary 
O'Leary to resign.

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  PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 165, FURTHER 
CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1996, AND WAIVING REQUIREMENT 
OF CLAUSE 4(B) OF RULE XI WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN RESOLUTIONS REPORTED 
                        FROM COMMITTEE ON RULES

  Mr. McINNIS. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I 
call up House Resolution 386 and ask for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                              H. Res. 386

       Resolved, That upon the adoption of this resolution it 
     shall be in order to consider in the House the joint 
     resolution (H.J. Res. 165) making further continuing 
     appropriations for the fiscal year 1996, and for other 
     purposes. The joint resolution shall be debatable for one 
     hour equally divided and controlled by the chairman and 
     ranking minority member of the Committee on Appropriations. 
     The previous question shall be considered as ordered on the 
     joint resolution 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 requirement of clause 4(b) of rule XI for a 
     two-thirds vote to consider a report from the Committee on 
     Rules on the same day it is presented to the House is waived 
     with respect to any resolution reported from that committee 
     before April 1, 1996, and providing for consideration or 
     disposition of any of the following measures.
       (1) A bill making general appropriations for the fiscal 
     year ending September 30, 1996, any amendment thereto, any 
     conference report thereon, or any amendment reported in 
     disagreement from a conference thereon.
       (2) A bill or joint resolution that includes provisions 
     making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 
     1996, any amendment thereto, any conference report thereon, 
     or any amendment reported in disagreement from a conference 
     thereon.
       (3) A bill or joint resolution that includes provisions 
     increasing or waiving (for a temporary period or otherwise) 
     the public debt limit under section 3101(b) of title 31, 
     United States Code, any amendment thereto, any conference 
     report thereon, or any amendment reported in disagreement 
     from a conference thereon.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Burton of Indiana). The gentleman from 
Colorado [Mr. McInnis] is recognized for 1 hour.
  Mr. McINNIS. Mr. Speaker, for the purposes of debate only, I yield 
the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Frost], 
pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. During the 
consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is for the purposes 
of debate only.
  Mr. Speaker, House Resolution 386 is a closed rule providing for 
consideration in the House with 1 hour of debate equally divided 
between the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on 
Appropriations. The rule orders the previous question 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.
  Section 2 of the proposed rule merely waives the requirement of 
clause 4(b) of rule 11 for a two-thirds vote to consider a report from 
the Committee on Rules on the same day it is presented to the House for 
resolutions reported from the Rules Committee before April 1, 1996, 
under certain circumstances.
  This narrow waiver will only apply to special rules providing for the 
consideration or disposition of any measures, amendments, conference 
reports, or items in disagreement from a conference that make general 
appropriations for fiscal year 1996, include provisions making 
continuing appropriations for fiscal year 1996, or any bill, or joint 
resolution, that includes provision increasing or waiving the public 
debt limit. The Rules Committee recognized the need for expedited 
procedures to bring these legislative measures forward as soon as 
possible. Mr. Speaker, House Resolution 386 is straightforward, and it 
was reported by the Committee on Rules by voice vote.
  In order to prevent a Government shutdown and provide the conferees 
on the omnibus continuing resolution adequate time to iron out the 
differences between the House, Senate, and administration, House Joint 
Resolution 165 is necessary. The legislation will keep the Government 
operating through March 29, and in the case of AFDC and the Foster Care 
Program through April 3. I urge my colleagues to support House 
Resolution 386 and the underlying legislation, House Joint Resolution 
165.

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  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, this rule is proof positive that the Republican majority 
cannot finish the job they were sent to Washington to do. It seems to 
me that in addition to bringing about the revolution they have spoken 
of so often in the past 15 months, their responsibility, as the 
majority party, is to make sure that the trains run on time. Well, Mr. 
Speaker, not only have the trains not run on time in this Republican 
Congress, we have had to live through two major train wrecks, and now, 
nearly 7 months into fiscal year, most of the train is still off the 
tracks.
  But, Mr. Speaker, my Republican colleagues have added insult to 
injury by asking this House to once again impose martial law. And what 
does martial law do, Mr. Speaker? Quite simply, martial law allows a 
majority to disregard the rules that they once so vigorously defended 
when they were in the minority. For 4 continuous months the House has 
operated under procedures that, had they been imposed by the Democrats, 
my Republican friends would have screamed bloody murder.
  Today the Republican leadership plans to bring up the sixth martial 
law resolution of the 104th Congress. The resolution allows the Speaker 
to bypass the regular committee process and bring legislation 
immediately to the House floor without the normal 1-day layoff period 
required by the rules of the House. Usually this extraordinary 
authority is granted only in the final days of a session as adjournment 
approaches. But under, Republican control, the House has operated under 
martial law continuously for 4 months, from November 15 through March 
15. Today they plan to extend that authority again until April 1.
  In the Democratic 103d Congress the House operated under martial law 
for a total of 5 days with no martial law resolution lasting more than 
1 day. In this Republican Congress a single martial law resolution, 
House Resolution 330, lasted 50 days. In the Democratic 103d Congress 
each martial law resolution applied to only one bill. Under the 
Republican control all martial law resolutions have applied to entire 
classes of bills encompassing everything from spending bills to Bosnia.
  So, Mr. Speaker, I am going to make an offer my Republican colleagues 
should not be able to refuse. Let us go back to regular order and use 
the rules which have in previous Congresses served both the majority 
and the minority. Let us not circumvent the rules and undercut the 
democratic process in an effort to cover up the fact that the 
Republican majority cannot do its job.
  I intend to oppose ordering the previous question in order to be able 
to offer an alternative rule which strikes the martial law provisions 
recommended by the Committee on Rules Republicans. I think that after 7 
months of delay, if the Republican majority is serious about finally 
funding the Federal Government, the very least the Republican majority 
can do is offer the Members of the House the opportunity to take the 
time to read the bill. Martial law does not give anyone, Republican or 
Democrats, such an opportunity.
  So I would encourage those Members across the aisle who are serious 
about maintaining democratic, with a small ``d,'' principles to vote 
again the previous question and to support my alternative to the rule.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. McINNIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I think initially here we need to clarify a couple of 
points.
  Mr. Speaker, I think at the very initial stages here we need to 
correct or clarify some of the statements made by my respected friend, 
the gentleman from the State of Texas [Mr. Frost]. Circumvent the 
rules? I think the gentleman is confused. This is the rules. That is 
why we are down here today.
  The gentleman and I were both in the Committee on Rules last night. 
The gentleman did not ask for two rules. We had a voice vote. I did not 
see this kind of vigorous debate in the Committee on Rules last night. 
This is kind of a blind side that we are getting down here.
  What we are asking for is approval of a rule, and then from that rule 
let us

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go into the debate. Let us talk about he comes up with this magic 
phantom word called martial law. Again, in due respect to the gentleman 
from Texas, I call it economic common sense. What does he want to do? 
Stop the Government?
  Of course, some leadership on the Democratic party would like to stop 
the Government because this is an election year. This is a very 
convenient time to try to put blame on the Republicans, who have 
brought more economic sense to this Government than any governing part 
of this body has brought for 40 years.
  We have got some tough decisions to make here. We have got to move 
this thing forward. We have got negotiations going on between the 
administration, the President of the United States, between the U.S. 
Senate and between the U.S. House. We need to allow them some continued 
time for these kind of negotiations.
  We are changing, Mr. Speaker, the habits of this House. We are 
changing 40 years, in my opinion, of bad habits. We cannot do it 
overnight. My colleague has got to allow the parties good faith, and he 
has got to allow them time so that these good-faith negotiations can 
continue. I do not think it helps the negotiations, it certainly does 
not help the relations between the two parties on this House floor, to 
use some of the types of exaggerations that I have just seen in the 
previous statement.
  I would urge my colleagues, look beyond the political aspect of this, 
put aside the fact that we are in an election year right now, and let 
us move toward the best interests of this country, and that is called 
economic common sense.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  If I understand the previous speaker, he is generally making two 
points. One is that the ends justify the means; and, two, that 
democracy is a very dangerous thing. What law we are asking for is that 
this House follow the rules of this House that have been followed for 
years and years when Democrats were in the majority. The question is 
are we going to suspend the rules of the House and not require a 1-day 
layover, a simple 24-hour layover for the House to have a chance to 
read bills before bringing up a rule on the floor of the House. We very 
rarely did that when we were in the majority, and only at the end of a 
session, and only for 1 day at a time.
  The new majority wants to suspend the rules of the House for 4 
months. I guess they consider democracy very dangerous. The ends 
perhaps do justify the means in their view, not in mine.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. McINNIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, let us again address the points from the fine gentleman 
from the State of Texas. We have got to have a bill by Friday. Does my 
colleague want to shut the Government down? We have to have a bill by 
Friday.
  Now, I am sorry we cannot allow for time through next week and the 
following week to read some of the things that the gentleman would like 
to read. The fact is this Government continues second by second.
  Now, we can either allow it to continue on Friday, or we can shut it 
down.
  Now, today is Thursday. That means we have less than 24 hours, or 
about 24 hours, to do something to keep this Government operating. It 
is the Republicans' priority to keep the Government on course, but to 
run it on an economic course that is going to make common sense to the 
average taxpayer in this country, and that is a balanced budget.
  Furthermore, I think it is important to understand that the waiver 
that we have talked about here, the narrow waiver, it is allowed by the 
rules. Suspension of the rules is a rule. The gentleman from Texas [Mr. 
Frost] has many years of experience on the Committee on Rules; he is a 
very capable individual. He knows this is not undemocratic; that is how 
the rules are written. We are utilizing the rules. I would be called 
out of order, the Speaker would not allow me to continue this debate 
today, if it was not in the rules. If I am not authorized to be on this 
floor with this proposal, which, as the gentleman from Texas admitted, 
the Democrats used while they were in the majority, if I were not 
allowed to do that, it would not be in the rules. Of course it is 
allowed.
  We have got to have this, Mr. Speaker. We have got to continue to 
allow this Government to operate in a fiscally sound manner.
  Now, again it is a dramatic change in the last 40 years of leadership 
in this House. In the last 40 years of leadership in this House we have 
accumulated a debt that is about $38 million an hour. In other words, 
our Government right now is spending about $38 million an hour more 
than it is bringing in. We cannot do that. No country in the history of 
civilization, no free country in the history of civilization, has 
survived with the kind of economic factors that we now have in place 
the way this Government has been run the last 40 years.
  The gentleman from Texas [Mr. Frost] knows it, the gentleman and the 
gentlewomen from all the 50 States in this Union know it. We have got 
to face up to fiscal reality, and that means that we have got to get 
some resolution, we have got to allow time for negotiations, and this 
rule allows it, and that joint resolution will allow the Government to 
operate in a commonsense, good judgment fashion.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the distinguished 
gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Bonior], the Democratic whip.
  Mr. BONIOR. I thank the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Frost] for yielding 
the time this morning.
  Mr. Speaker, the distinguished political analyst, Kevin Phillips, has 
said that this is the most unproductive Congress in the last 50 years. 
I have been here 20 years, and I have never seen this place run so 
poorly, so inefficiently, and without care and deliberation.
  What this resolution we have before us does is say to virtually all 
Members of the Congress, at least the House, and all of the public, 
``You can't participate.''
  Now, what do we mean when we say martial law? The gentleman from 
Texas [Mr. Frost] has referred to this word, martial law. It means that 
the Speaker and the majority leader can bring legislation to this floor 
without going through the committee structure, without hearings, 
without giving us even a day's notice, bring it right to the floor, and 
we vote on it, and, as Mr. Frost has said earlier, this is being done 
for the fourth month in a row. Seventy-three percent of all the 
bills that have been brought to the House floor have gone right to the 
floor without committee consideration or approval this year, 73 
percent.

  Mr. Speaker, we started this Congress by shutting down voices, by 
closing the Black Caucus, the Women's Caucus, the Hispanic Caucus, and 
then there was an attack on public television, there was an attack on 
the Endowment for the Arts, closing down those important voices in our 
society, and now it has gotten to the point where Members of this body 
cannot even participate in committee hearings or committee votes, 
everything dumped right on the floor.
  Mr. Speaker, the tragedy with this is it is not getting anything 
done. It is not getting anything done. This is the sixth martial law 
resolution we have had on the floor. We are going to be into our 12th 
continuing resolution in a few minutes.

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  Yet, we still have not done five appropriation bills from the 1996 
fiscal year. We are going backwards. We are not getting anything done. 
It is not me saying it, it is respected Republicans on the outside who 
are looking in and saying, ``What in God's name is going on up there?''
  How does this affect the general public? When you stop and you go and 
you stop and you go in terms of these resolutions, you throw a lot of 
uncertainty out there into the public. School boards and school 
officials all across the country are trying to plan their school year 
in September. They are trying to figure out how many teachers they need 
next year, they are trying to figure out the curricula, they are trying 
to figure out class size. They cannot do that because we have not dealt

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with the education budget of this Nation from a Federal perspective.
  The cuts that have been proposed by the Republicans have been in the 
neighborhood of $3.3 billion, cuts in the DARE Program, the Safe and 
Drug-free Schools Program, cuts in the Title I Program, which is for 
math and reading; 40,000 to 50,000 teachers getting pink-slipped all 
over the country, because they have not done their business.
  This is a Congress of do little and delay. They have done little and 
they have delayed, and they have delayed. My friend, the gentleman from 
Colorado [Mr. McInnis], has had the nerve to stand up here and talk 
about shutting down the Government. They shut down the Government twice 
at the cost of $1.5 billion. That is what it costs to shut the 
Government down, $1.5 billion.
  Mr. Speaker, there is a better way to run this place. The fair way to 
do it is to let the public participate, the Members participate, have 
up and down votes, give us a chance to offer the amendments that are 
necessary to keep our schools open, to take care of our toxic waste 
sites. We have toxic waste sites that are not being dealt with because 
they have not provided the money.
  There is a better way to do this, Mr. Speaker. I ask my colleagues to 
vote against this rule, and to look closely at what the gentlemen on 
the other side of the aisle and the gentlewomen on the other side of 
the aisle are offering us in the 12th continuing resolution, which is 
closed for debate and for consideration by most of the Members of this 
body and by the American people.
  Mr. McINNIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, it is obvious from the previous remarks that we are into 
an election year. Let us look at the remarks made by the gentleman from 
Michigan. First of all, clearly, none of this would have happened, and 
I do not believe the gentleman's statistics are right. If 50,000 or 
40,000 teachers got their pink slips because we said the Government had 
to operate with a balanced budget, maybe, if in fact that many got pink 
slips as a direct result of the negotiations here, it happened because 
President Clinton vetoed and vetoed and vetoed and vetoed and vetoed 
the budgets that we have given to him.
  We are trying to get cooperation from this President. I can tell the 
Members, we have moved the President a long ways. Did Members ever 
think we would see this President saying that the era of big Government 
is over? Did we ever think we would see this President talking about a 
balanced budget? Finally we have gotten him to that point in the 
negotiations, but this takes time.
  Mr. Speaker, let me point out, too, to assist the gentleman from 
Michigan, we have a Webster's dictionary up here. He keeps using this 
words ``martial law,'' as if the gentleman knows what it says. He is 
not using it in its proper context. Let me talk about martial law, as 
given to us by the Webster's dictionary: ``Martial law,'' ``The law 
temporarily imposed upon an area by State or national military 
forces,'' military forces, ``when civil authority is broken down, or 
during wartime military operations.''
  If the gentleman wants to continue to use the term ``martial law,'' 
then he should clearly stand up here at the podium and talk about, 
under his definition of martial law, the times the Democrats used it in 
1993. I have it right here. House Resolution 61, February 3, 1993, they 
did exactly the same thing. It is allowed under the rules. House 
Resolution 111, March 3, 1993, allowed under the rules. House 
Resolution 142, March 30, allowed under the rules, the same exact 
thing.
  Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman and the gentlewomen from the other side 
there are trying to continue this argument, which clearly is a 
diversion from what we need to do, that is to cooperate towards a 
balanced budget, to cooperate keep this Government operating, if they 
want to continue to divert attention by using these terms, they should 
apply them to themselves. We are learning from them. We are using the 
rules. I could go on and on with this.
  I think it is critical to understand that while the President has 
continued to veto, veto, veto, veto, and veto, we must, as a result of 
those vetoes, continue to negotiate, negotiate, negotiate, and 
negotiate. Do Members know what is going to happen as a result of those 
negotiations? At some point we are going to reach a compromise, a 
compromise that is good for the American people.
  I know the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Bonior], and I must say right 
off the bat, I am not educated at an Ivy League school. I went to a 
very small school in the mountains of Colorado. I think I am very 
capable, but not able to quote great scholars. He quotes a 
distinguished scholar about his analysis of what is happening here in 
the U.S. House.
  Let me quote a couple of people: My buddy Al. He is a rancher, he is 
not an Ivy League graduate, but do you know what he analyzed? He said 
``It is about time, it is about time that somebody insisted that this 
Government, that this Congress, run its budget like every average 
American citizen has to do. It is about time somebody had enough guts 
to stand up to the bureaucracy in Washington, D.C. and demand that a 
balanced budget be in place. It is about time somebody called the 
President on these vetoes after veto after veto.''
  Those are the kinds of quotes I can give. I can talk about Linda, I 
can talk about Betsy. These are just common folk out there. They know 
what it means to have a balanced budget. They have to balance their 
checkbook. So let us not use these diversionary tactics, first of all, 
by using this term ``martial law,'' unless, of course, you want to 
apply it to yourselves, as you used it for the last several years.
  Let us talk about unity in working towards a balanced budget to bring 
this Government to an economic, sensible, type of plan that will move 
us forward in a positive fashion.
  Mr. Speaker, let me say that sometimes it is easy for people who 
observe us debating on this floor to go away with a pretty pessimistic 
attitude. I am optimistic about the future of this country. I think we 
have a great future ahead of us. But we do have some responsibilities 
that we have to carry forward, so the greatness of this country can 
continue. Those responsibilities right now center on fiscal 
responsibility. In order for us to get to that fiscal responsibility, 
we need to pass this rule.
  Mr. Speaker, I should point out once again, and again, we can tell it 
is an election year. We were just in the Committee on Rules last night, 
so I have lost my memory on what occurred. We did not see this kind of 
rancor last night. We did not see this kind of debate in the Committee 
on Rules. In fact, this passed on a voice vote. Do Members know why? 
Because it is a procedure that has been used in the past, it is a 
procedure that is necessary to keep this Government from shutting down 
by tomorrow. I urge that Members support the rule. I urge that we 
support the House joint resolution.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 30 seconds.
  Mr. Speaker, what we have before us today is conclusive proof that 
the governing Republican majority in this Congress is both incompetent 
and does not care about democracy. The gentleman just mentioned that 
Democrats suspended the rules during the last Congress. We did that for 
5 days on five different occasions, 1 day at a time. They have done it 
for 4 months now, and they want to do it even longer than that. There 
is a basic disagreement on democracy, on how we should function as a 
democratic institution.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New York [Mr. 
Nadler].
  Mr. NADLER. Mr. Speaker, the remarks of the gentleman from Colorado 
are irrelevant . . . He talks about the suspension of the rules, as 
if----
  Mr. McINNIS. Mr. Speaker, I ask that the words be stricken, the words 
of the gentleman be stricken.
  Mr. NADLER. Mr. Speaker, I did not refer to the gentleman in any way. 
I said his remarks.
  Mr. McINNIS. The gentleman referred to the gentleman from Colorado. I 
ask that those words be stricken.
  Mr. NADLER. Mr. Speaker, I said those remarks were . . . I did not 
say he was.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. (Mr. Burton of Indiana). The gentleman will 
suspend. The gentleman will be seated.

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  The Clerk will report the words.

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  Mr. NADLER. Mr. Speaker, rather than waste time, I will withdraw the 
remarks.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the gentleman withdraws 
the remarks.
  There was no objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from New York may proceed in 
order.
  Mr. NADLER. Mr. Speaker, let me say that most of what the gentleman 
from Colorado was saying is irrelevant to the point that we are making. 
The relevance of the balanced budget, the merits of the economics of 
both sides of the House and of the President are not what is at issue 
here. What is at issue is an abuse of the rules of the House.
  The procedure for suspending the rules and what we call martial law 
is for an emergency. Instead, it is being used for every single day of 
this Congress, every single day of this Congress, not to give Members 
the right to read the bills, to have a bill on the floor without a 1-
day layover so we can read them and look at them, to take bills away 
from committees, put them on the floor without consideration. In an 
emergency, maybe. The gentleman says it is an emergency. The Government 
will shut down unless there is a continuing resolution.
  No. 1, why do we not have a continuing resolution, instead of lasting 
a week or two, that lasts until a budget agreement is reached or for 
the balance of the year? But forgetting that, if that is the emergency, 
why does the gentleman not ask for a rule that suspends the 1-day rule 
for 1 day for this bill? Not for another few weeks and keep it going 
that way.
  The gentleman says it is within the rules to suspend the rules. Of 
course. There is that emergency provision, but this is an abuse of it. 
Lots of things can be done legally. The Reichstag passed the Enabling 
Act to give certain powers to the chancellor legally. That was an abuse 
of an emergency provision. Look what it led to.
  I do not compare this to that, but it is the same abuse that 
eliminates democratic procedures. There is no necessity for it. Let 
them have a 1-day suspension, if necessary, so we can do this 
continuing resolution that is made necessary by the irresponsibility of 
the Republicans by not bringing it up earlier and by refusing lengthy 
CR's.
  But let us not let that excuse be used to say we need to suspend the 
rules so that the Speaker can at any time bypass the committee, bring 
brand new legislation to the floor without even a day for Members to 
read it and a day for the Members of the public to read it. That, sir 
is an abuse of the Members and of the public.
  Mr. McINNIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I certainly respect the comments from the gentleman from New York, 
and I think that his point is a valid point. It is that exact reasoning 
from the gentleman from New York that the Democrats, when they were 
running this House floor and they had control of the Rules Committee, 
used exactly what he is talking about, using the word ``emergency.''
  Let me refer the gentleman from New York to House Resolution 111, 
this is March 3, 1993, relating to the emergency unemployment 
compensation. We can go on from there to House Resolution 150 on March 
30, 1993, making emergency appropriations. We can move on from there to 
House Resolution 153, making emergency appropriations, so on and so 
forth.
  Mr. Speaker, I am going to try and pull us back. I would love to 
engage in debate with the gentlemen from the other side of the aisle. I 
think it is exciting. But the fact is we have got to get on with 
business. The fact is we need to keep this Government up and operating. 
The fact is we need to operate this Government in an economic, fiscally 
sane way. So let us pull it back to where we are today.
  What are we debating right now? We are debating a rule. This is not 
the first time that this rule has been debated. In the past this rule 
has been utilized when the Democrats controlled the chair up there, and 
now the Republicans intend to use this rule. We need to have it.
  Yesterday we debated this rule in the Rules Committee. We did not see 
this kind of vigorous debate in the Rules Committee. The only time we 
have seen this kind of vigorous debate is when we are down here on the 
House floor. Because up in the Rules Committee, we know that we have 
got to cooperate to keep this Government open tomorrow. That is what we 
are down to. We are down to 1 day. We are down to 24 hours.
  Some would say, well, why did you let it get this close? The fact is 
very simple. We have got good-faith negotiations going on right now 
between the administration, between the Senate and between the House.
  We can shortcut those negotiations. If we do, it is going to shortcut 
all of us. It is going to fall way short of a goal that I think, once 
we put the politics aside, once we put the election year aside, a goal 
that we want, for this country to be fiscally sound.
  We should support this rule. This rule is important for us to move 
on. As I said, and again I stress this, this rule has been used in the 
past when the Democrats headed the Rules Committee, and we are using it 
today. It is not a subversion of democratic procedure. It is an allowed 
rule up there. The reason for it is for the very kind of circumstances 
that we face today.
  The option, of course, is to go ahead, vote down the rule, as has 
been proposed by some Members who have taken the opposite stance of 
mine, and close down the Government tomorrow. We do not think it is 
necessary to close down the Government tomorrow.
  We think you should support this rule and help us keep the Government 
open. We think your idea of closing down the Government by voting down 
this rule is not a good idea. It does not make sense. Work with us on 
this. Help us keep this Government operating for the next few days 
while the negotiations continue.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from West 
Virginia [Mr. Wise].
  Mr. WISE. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Colorado movingly referred 
a moment or two ago to his friends in Colorado who speak common sense 
and my friends, Betsy and Al and others, are of much the same mind. 
They know a couple of things, too. They know people have to pay their 
bills on time, and they sure hate it when they lose their job because 
somebody else did not do their job. That is what this debate is about.
  There is a lot of talk about martial law and whether it is an unusual 
remedy. It depends on the circumstances. Yes, Democrats did use it for 
5 days over a 2-year period and then limited it to one bill at a time. 
In the Republican majority in this Congress, not yet finished, they 
have used it for 4 months and covered whole classes of bills.
  The definition of an emergency is interesting. They are approaching 
the definition of emergency about as long as Fidel Castro and Chiang 
Kai-shek and Generalissimo Franco used their definitions of emergency.
  Because what is this martial law resolution? It permits you to skip 
committees, it permits you to avoid 1-day layovers so Members can read 
bills. It sets up a situation so your representatives do not know what 
is in those bills when they vote on them. This is a very, very serious 
matter. Now they want another one, the 11th this year, to go until 
April 1, not 1 day, not one bill, April 1.
  The gentleman from Colorado speaks about economic common sense. Let 
us talk about common sense, economic common sense. We are 6 months into 
the 1996 budget year. Incidentally, they are already trying to work up 
the 1997 budget even though we do not have a 1996 budget yet. We are 6 
months into the 1996 budget year. There have been 11 temporary spending 
resolutions and another 2 weeks of uncertainty coming up. This is 
businesslike?
  Because the Republican leadership cannot operate the House and cannot 
agree on a budget, others must suffer. When this next continuing 
resolution expires on April 1, the West Virginia school boards, 55 of 
them, will have had to have laid off 226 teachers, 90 aides and denied 
title I reading and math services to 6,500 students. That is economic 
common sense, I ask you?
  The gentleman says that economic common sense is necessary. What kind 
of economic common sense is it that costs teachers, that costs parents, 
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costs children these opportunities, and is only going to suffer more 
setbacks?
  Let me talk about why they want martial law or why I believe that 
what happens because of martial law, because nobody knows what will be 
in the bills that come to the floor. Understandably, they do not know 
yet. They have not written them. They do not know yet what is in them. 
But I have to be honest, given what has come in the past, I would not 
want to know what is in them, either, because it is just better that 
way.
  What finally bothers me is when I hear this analogy that somehow if 
we do not vote for this, we are 2 days away from the deadline and you 
are going to shut the Government down.
  I tried that in my school, too. It does not matter what school you 
went to, we all tried the same thing. I would go to the teacher and I 
would say, ``You know, 2 days, I didn't have enough time.'' The teacher 
would say, ``Yeah, Bob, but you had 6 months to work on this budget.''
  Actually you had a year because you were supposed to have started a 
year before. I am not impressed and I do not think the American people 
are impressed, either. That is why this martial law is not good for the 
Congress and not good for the democracy.
  Mr. McINNIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  The gentleman from West Virginia is an excellent speaker. He presents 
his points well, but I think we need to look at the substance of the 
points.
  First of all, one of the points that the gentleman from West Virginia 
says, ``Hey, we're 6 months into this process and we still don't have 
an agreement.'' I will tell you why we do not have an agreement, is 
because of that veto pen down there at the White House, veto, veto, 
veto, veto.
  When you talk about the difficulties that we have had on a compromise 
up here, you should also point out, to be fair to all parties listening 
to this debate, that there are three parties in this negotiation: The 
administration, President Clinton; the U.S. Senate; and the U.S. House. 
On some occasions the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate have come to a 
compromise and it has been the administration which has vetoed these 
bills and caused this kind of delay.
  But let me also say, in fairness to the economic history of the last 
40 years, it does make economic sense, if necessary, to delay this 
process if we can move this country toward a balanced budget, if we can 
get this country to quit spending more than it brings in.
  Sure, you can look at the record of the last 40 years and say there 
were not very many times, if any, and I do not know that history for 
sure, but even if there were not any times that they went 6 months 
beyond that deadline, take a look at the product that we got. The 
product that we have got is a government that spends $40 million an 
hour on its debt more than it brings in. The product we have got is it 
now requires every man, woman, and child in this country to pick up 
$18,000 on their share of what is going to be necessary to get us out 
of debt.
  It is kind of like running a credit card. Most of us have credit 
cards. Sure, if you can continue to use the credit card and charge and 
charge and charge and charge, and nobody ever calls you on it or nobody 
ever forces you to pay up the bill, then it is pretty easy not to delay 
buying something because you do not have the money. You just go down 
and charge it. That is what has happened for 40 years. Now before we 
let you use the charge card, we are saying, ``Wait a minute. Look at 
how much we owe on the charge card.''
  Certainly we are going to have to spend some money. Obviously 
education is a priority for all of us. Obviously we have to have a 
defense. But we need to spend the money more efficiently. Before we 
just go down and willy-nilly charge anything we want, we have got to be 
careful with that credit card. That is what we are saying. That is what 
these negotiations are about.
  I think further, let me say to the gentleman from West Virginia, he 
continues to use the words ``martial law,'' but at least the gentleman 
from West Virginia also applied that term when the Democrats had the 
Rules Committee. I would venture to say to the gentleman from West 
Virginia, the Democrats did not use martial law when they utilized this 
rule. We are not using martial law by utilization of this rule.
  I read the definition over here from Webster's dictionary, martial 
law, which involves military forces. It is the utilization of the rules 
to get us to a common point. That common point, which you are coming to 
very resistantly, and you are tugging and you are pulling getting to 
that point but you are moving to that point, is a balanced budget for 
this country. I think that is the essence of what we have to get to.
  You say we misuse the title of emergency. Well, folks, we are going 
to have an emergency in 24 hours. The clock is ticking. It is ticking 
second by second. That clock right up there, 24 hours from today, if 
you do not cooperate with us, you are going to shut this Government 
down.
  We do not want the Government shut down. We want a government that is 
going to operate in an efficient manner and we are asking for your 
cooperation to give us some more time for good-faith negotiations. Is 
that too much to ask from you? I do not think so.
  Last night when we were in the Rules Committee, they did not think 
so. We did not have this kind of argument last night in Rules. Let us 
pass this rule, let us get a good, healthy debate on the floor and let 
us keep the Government open.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from 
Texas [Mr. Doggett].
  Mr. DOGGETT. Well, you may not want it shut down this morning, but 
you were mighty proud to shut it down twice last year. You use this 
term ``civil disorder.'' You say that martial law is something that we 
bring into play when there is civil disorder.
  Well, what better term to describe the mess that you have made of 
this Government? Coming to the American people and bragging about your 
power to shut down the Government, not once but twice, costing the 
American taxpayer $1.5 billion, frittered away by this Republican 
leadership, totally and completely wasted so that they could have their 
Government shutdowns. What do they propose today? Well, they want to 
erect a monument to the mismanagement, to the failures of this Gingrich 
Congress.
  This year after those two Government shutdowns, what have they given 
us? Loud talk and long weekends. It took them 3 weeks to celebrate 
Valentine's Day, breaking from this Congress. They come in and they 
break a little after noon.
  There are people across America that these Republican colleagues of 
ours simply do not understand. They are working families. They are 
facing a tough time trying to make ends meet. If they for 1 week were 
to handle their business in the total mismanagement fashion of our 
Republican colleagues, taking 5 and 6-day weekends, taking 3 weeks for 
Valentine's Day, working part-time, asking to be paid full time, and 
caring about the real problems of the American people no time, then 
those ordinary working families would be out without a job in their own 
situation.
  At the same time, we find ourselves in these sputtering spurts of 
Government that occur here with the same kind of extremist rhetoric 
that we heard all of last year from day one. When Republicans over in 
the other body hear the cry of the American people and approve money so 
that we can keep Head Start going instead of giving our young children 
a wrong start, keep our teachers going with Federal support of 
education, the response from the House Republican leadership is that 
the Senate Republicans have somehow been spineless, rather than to 
commend them for their willingness to finally come around and listen to 
the American people.
  There are programs for young people in this country that are going to 
be shut down unless this kind of extremism can be put to a halt. We got 
just this week another example of that same kind of extremism, where we 
have one Member of this body coming and saying that he heard right here 
in the House a great Republican say, `` `I trust Hamas more than I 
trust my own government.' Those words hurt.''
  They do indeed hurt, and they hurt not just the pride of this body. 
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hurt ordinary working families across this country, because they are 
the ones that are being savaged, that are being impacted by this kind 
of extremism in the House that has the Government operating literally 
from 1 day to the next, without the planning that our local school 
boards need and our Government agencies need to do their job.

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  So what is proposed as a solution? What this rule does is to say they 
think the solution to it all is to do one thing: Give Speaker Newt 
Gingrich more power. I do not believe the American people think the 
Speaker needs more power. I think they view him as part of the problem 
instead of part of the solution.
  This allows him to come forward with more sneak attacks, just like 
tomorrow. Every time the American people realize what is happening to 
them, they come up with some sneak attack and some distraction piece of 
legislation. There is only one good feature of this resolution that our 
Republican colleagues are offering, and that is this authority is going 
to expire on April 1. Yes, they quite appropriately picked April Fools' 
Day. I say the American people are not going to be fooled again by this 
kind of nonsense.
  Mr. McINNIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I find it somewhat amusing that the gentleman defines a 
sneak attack as an attack that comes tomorrow. That is not too sneaky 
if it is coming tomorrow.
  Second of all, the gentleman talks about how the Republicans have 
stretched Valentine's Day for 3 weeks. I would let the gentleman from 
Texas know, I actually got to spend Valentine's Day with my wife, and I 
wish I could have figured out how to stretch that for 3 weeks, because 
it was a wonderful day.
  Let us get back to the rule here. You want to vote against this rule, 
then you want to shut down the Government. That is how simple the 
choice is. It is the bottom line. We can talk about quotes here and 
there, and we can bring in posters and jump up and down and talk about 
all these kind of things. But the fact is, if you want to vote against 
the rule, you vote to shut the Government down tomorrow. No way around 
it. It is that simple. If you vote against the rule, you shut down the 
Government tomorrow.
  I do not think that is what you really want to do. I think what you 
really want to do is cause a little havoc, and that is certainly within 
the debate here. I do not think that is going to get us anywhere. I 
think we have to pull back, unify, and work towards a balanced budget. 
You talk about the word ``extreme,'' this word ``extreme.'' What I 
think most Americans would define as extreme is that you up here, some 
of you, decide to vote against a rule, this is a procedure, a procedure 
that has been used by the Democrats, a procedure used by the 
Republicans, that you would vote against a rule just to demonstrate a 
point to shut down the Government tomorrow.
  Do not shut it down. You do not need to shut the Government down 
tomorrow. That would be an extreme move. I would hope that the 
gentleman from Texas votes for this rule, because if you do not vote 
for the rule, then I think the next logical step is using the 
definition of the word ``extreme.'' It shuts the Government down.
  Again, let me remind my colleagues, last night when we were in the 
Committee on Rules, we did not have this kind of debate. The members of 
the Committee on Rules on both sides of the aisle understood that we 
need to continue to operate the Government. They understood that we can 
operate in a positive fashion. Now we have got a little insurgence, 
coming over here today saying, hey, this is a bad rule. For some 
reason, we could use the rule, but you cannot use the rule. We see all 
these kinds of words being used, ``extreme, extreme, extreme.''
  I would suggest we use the words ``veto, veto, veto,'' and once we 
are through with that debate, let us get to the issue at hand, and that 
is to vote ``yes'' on this rule so we can keep the Government from 
closing down tomorrow.
  This is serious business. If we do not pass this rule, this 
Government is shutting down tomorrow. So let me urge all of my 
colleagues, let me say to you, Democrats, if you really want to push 
it, you may win the battle, you may beat the rule, but you are going to 
lose the war. And who loses if you lose? We all lose. Tomorrow we have 
got to keep this Government operating. There is no reason. In the past 
there has been, I think, logical argument on both sides that you have 
to bring an operation to halt that is spending $38 million an hour more 
than it brings in. But tomorrow, you do not have that kind of 
justification. You do not need to shut this Government down. Vote 
``yes'' on this rule and keep the Government in operation.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 1 minute.
  Mr. Speaker, my colleague on the other side of the aisle is a little 
confused. I have listened to him and listened to him and tried to 
understand what he is saying. He obviously is confused. Let me see if I 
can set it straight.
  We are not suggesting that the CR should not be brought up. The CR 
will be brought up today, should be brought up today, even under what 
we are suggesting. The only thing that we are asking is that the 
martial law provision of this rule be stripped out. Strip that out, you 
still bring the CR up today, because the CR is laid over 24 hours. That 
is all we are asking.
  The gentleman seems to be very, very confused. He seems to think that 
if we won the previous question and we were able to strip out the 
martial law provision, that the CR could not come up. That is not the 
case at all. The CR would come up. It would be the next order of 
business.
  I guess perhaps the staff on the other side may explain that to the 
gentleman, that even if we win, that the CR will be voted on today. I 
know it is a little hard to follow, what goes on around this place 
sometimes, but we are not suggesting the CR should not be brought up. 
We are suggesting it should be brought up, voted on today, so the 
Government can stay open.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from 
Connecticut [Ms. DeLauro].
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, today what we are seeing and what we are 
listening to is another consequence of the incompetence of those who 
run this House. The resolution that we debate will grant Speaker 
Gingrich extraordinary powers to bypass the regular process of this 
body and to bring bills immediately to the floor. What does this mean? 
No time to read the bills, no time to understand what is being voted 
on, no time for committees to air the process.
  It is a subterfuge, a way in which you want to hide what you truly 
want to do.
  We have precedent here: The Medicare debate, its Medicare debate, one 
hearing on dismantling the Medicare Program, which serves 99 percent of 
the seniors in this Nation. However, we were able to expose what our 
Republican colleagues wanted to do about Medicare, and now they have 
backed off of that issue.
  This is a subterfuge tactic to hide what they want to do. The 
incompetent management has consequences in the lives of working 
families. Medicare is an example. As we lurch now from one short-term 
spending bill to another, citizens, businesses, have no idea what the 
Federal Government is about. My State of Connecticut, the educators are 
contemplating cutting reading, writing, mathematics programs, for our 
kids, the programs that talk about making our schools safe for our 
kids, providing the opportunity for high school students through school 
to work to be able to move into a profession. College loans will be 
cut. They do not know in my State of Connecticut what the Federal 
Government wants to do in funding for education. They are unable to 
plan for the school year.

  I say to my colleague from Colorado that your friend Al's children 
are in serious jeopardy. Let us not give Newt Gingrich any more powers. 
Let us do the people's business, pass a budget that reflects the values 
and priorities of this Nation.
  Mr. McINNIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I do find the previous Speaker's comments entertaining, 
but I think it is important for us to address the comments of 
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are the comments from the gentleman from Texas. The gentleman from 
Texas is correct, I am confused, because last night in the Committee on 
Rules, we offered two separate rules specifically to the gentleman from 
Texas. I remember his comments. I was there. I was right opposite him. 
We said to the gentleman from Texas, ``Mr. Frost, would you like two 
rules?'' The answer was no.
  Now, why two rules? One rule, if you are having a problem with the 
waiver of the bill, then we will give you a separate rule on the 
continuing resolution which will stop the Government from shutting down 
tomorrow. Then you can have a separate rule on this debate on the 
waiver or on the procedure we are using.
  The gentleman from Texas said no. Now I am confused. If he is not 
attempting to shut down the Government tomorrow, why did he not ask for 
separate rules last night? It is very clear. The fact is, there is a 
little game playing going on here. That is OK. We are in a debate. But 
it gets real, real serious here in about 24 hours. You are going to 
shut down that Government if you vote ``no'' on this rule.
  Last night, if you were really serious about your objections to the 
waiver we have requested, you should have asked, you had the 
opportunity to ask, and you did not ask, for a separate rule. You could 
have had a separate rule. You did not ask. You did not go after it for 
the continuing resolution.
  Then maybe some of the comments you would have made would have had 
more merit to me. As we stand right now, we are playing, again as I 
say, a very serious game with the lives of 240 million Americans when 
we do not need to. We do not need to shut down the Government tomorrow. 
We are not at that point in a crisis. We are not at that point in our 
negotiations where it requires a shutdown, where we walk off the job. 
Let us stay on the job. The way we stay on the job is you vote ``yes'' 
on this rule. If you want to shut down the Government, then go ahead 
with this game playing, vote ``no'' on the rule, and then we will see 
who is confused tomorrow night at about midnight.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
Oregon [Ms. Furse].
  Ms. FURSE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today against this closed rule. This 
is just another example of this 2-year experiment, which we have to 
call the Republican control of Congress. I think in order to evaluate 
this experiment, we need certain things. We need to look at issues and 
numbers.
  The first issue is priorities. This Republican Congress wants to cut 
$3 billion this year from education. Another number, 22. It has 
decided, this Republican Congress, to cut 22 percent of the 
environmental protection moneys. That is the protection for health for 
our children.
  Another issue, failures. Another number, 11. This Republican Congress 
has tried to shut down the Government, or actually failed to keep the 
Government going, 11 times.
  Now, in 208 years, that has never happened before. The U.S. Congress 
has never threatened to shut down the Government 11 times.
  Another failure is five, and another number, five. That is the number 
of appropriations bills from last year that have not yet been passed 
this year.
  Value, what about value? Well, there is the number 133,000. That is 
what Members of Congress get paid in order to run the Government, in 
order to do their job. Well, I would say that the Republican majority 
has not been able to do its job, so I would say that the American 
public really has not got their money's worth from this Republican 
control of Congress.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise against this closed rule, another closed rule, 
and I rise against the priorities of this Republican Congress.
  Mr. McINNIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, to the gentlewoman, let me tell you, there is a big 
priority right here in front of you, it is in front of me, and it is in 
front of every one of our colleagues, and that is if you do not vote on 
this rule and we lose the rule and we shut down the Government 
tomorrow, that should not be the priority, the shutdown of the 
Government. We do not need it. The negotiations are not there.
  Our priority, the Republican leadership's priority, is to try to keep 
this Government operating. Now we are trying to negotiate in good faith 
with the President. All we get is veto, veto, veto, veto, veto, veto, 
veto, but we think we can negotiate something. We think we should 
continue the good faith negotiation.
  We do not think you need to shut down the Government tomorrow to 
prove your point that you are displeased with the Committee on Rules. 
If you are unhappy with the Committee on Rules, come up and have your 
representative on the Committee on Rules entertain a motion.
  Certainly yesterday the members of the Democratic Party on the 
Committee on Rules had every right, they did not do it, they could have 
done it, but they did not do it, to offer a motion to have two separate 
rules. In fact, it was members of the Republican side of the aisle on 
the Committee on Rules that asked the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Frost], 
on the Democrat side, would they like two separate rules? The answer 
was no.
  I will tell Members, the cooperation last night in the Committee on 
Rules was good. It was excellent. But you cannot hardly believe in less 
than 24 hours the cooperation we saw upstairs in the Committee on Rules 
has developed into this. There has not been any tough negotiations or 
disagreements between us in the last 12 hours. What brought this on?
  Come on folks. We have got to keep this Government going. We can do 
it. Vote ``yes'' on this rule. It is absolutely essential if we want to 
keep the Government operating.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Massachusetts [Mr. Frank].
  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, I sympathize with the 
gentleman from Colorado. He has been left all alone on his side to 
defend this latest trampling of open procedures, and he is a little 
testy because he apparently thought he had a nice deal worked out last 
night and democracy has broken out on the floor of the House. I 
understand that is unsettling, but he has to learn to live with it.
  On the other hand, I want to give him credit. Some people think 
others do not learn things. Clearly he at least has learned that 
shutting down the Government is a terrible idea. He has several times 
today talked about how outrageous it is to shut down the Government. 
One would not infer from that he is part of the majority that made a 
habit of shutting down the Government as a deliberate tactic. People 
boasted about shutting down the Government.
  Well, they have learned that was not a good thing and the gentleman 
from Colorado has the zeal of a convert against shutting down the 
Government. He has joined Government-shutters-down-anonymous. We are on 
a 12-step program. Unfortunately, it does not include democracy.
  What we are being told here is you may not continue to debate these 
issues openly. You may not have the rules which say you got to wait a 
day so we can study this big thing. He says you better do this in a 
hurry or we will shut the Government down.
  Why is that the case? Because the Republican majority has not been 
able to run the place sufficiently to give us enough time. So, yes, 
they have created an emergency from which they now want to profit.
  They are asking us to sacrifice democratic procedures on the altar of 
their own incompetence. I agree, it is an imposing altar. I have never 
seen incompetence so dazzlingly displayed. But I do not think that is a 
justification for shutting down fair procedures.
  What is their justification? ``Well, you guys did it, too. You guys 
did it.'' Every time we talk about one more procedural outrage, they go 
to the history books and they say ``Hey, the Democrats once did that.''
  Well, as I recall, the Republicans ran in 1994 on a slogan of ``Throw 
the bums out. They have run the House unfairly, they have been 
undemocratic.'' Speaker Gingrich, whe he was still Speaker, before he 
kind of deposed himself and put Armey in charge, he used to talk about 
that.
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of their own incompetence, they decide to do some shortcut that they 
used to attack us for. So they used to run on the slogan ``Throw the 
bums out.'' Then they decided to take power and emulate us, and this 
year apparently their slogan for reelection will be, ``Keep the bums 
in.''
  Mr. McINNIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I think there ought to be a new song and dance out there 
called veto and spend, veto and spend, veto and spend. The gentleman 
ought to mention a little of that in his comments, the gentleman from 
Massachusetts.
  But let me also say to the gentleman from Massachusetts, I respect 
his compliment that I have unilaterally had to take on speaker after 
speaker after speaker here for the last hour. Bring on your best. I 
think I can handle it. I am ready for it.
  The issue here is not whether or not we have had a great debate in 
the last hour, and I think we have. Certainly it has been somewhat 
entertaining. The fact is this: If we do not pass this rule, if we 
carry through with the gentleman's comments to vote no on this rule and 
this rule loses, we will close this Government down tomorrow.

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  As I have said, there are times where it may be necessary to close 
down the Government for a temporary period of time. This is not one of 
those times. My colleagues do not need to bring this battle upon 
themselves. Do not do it. Do not do it to the American people.
  Vote ``yes'' on this rule and keep that Government operating 
tomorrow. I can tell the Republicans intend to vote ``yes'' on this 
rule. We do not think it is time to close down the Government, and we 
urge them to reconsider their strategy of closing down the Government 
tomorrow. Do not do it. Vote ``yes'' on the rule.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Missouri [Mr. Volkmer].
  (Mr. VOLKMER asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. VOLKMER. Mr. Speaker, today is another one of those sad days in 
the history of the 104th Congress. Today, once again, you are seeing 
the Democratic minority gagged basically by the Republican majority. 
They are going to, by passing this rule, be able to take up legislation 
in the foreseeable future all the way to the 1st of April, 
approximately, without going through the normal process of the rules of 
the House.
  This is not new to the 104th Congress. This is a way that the 104th 
Congress, under Speaker Gingrich, has operated for over a year. Yet, a 
little over a year ago in this well, the gentleman from New York [Mr. 
Solomon], the chairman of the Committee on Rules, said that we were 
going to have openness in this Congress, we were going to have over 75 
percent of the open rules. Where is the open rule?
  So far this year, major legislation, the farm bill, antiterrorism, 
today we will finish immigration, all of those, major legislation, 
every one of them, closed rule, semi-closed rule. No open rule. Not 
letting Members who are elected by their constituents to this house, to 
this democratic body, any democracy at all, not letting them talk about 
their amendments and offer their amendments.
  Mr. Speaker, no, there is no democracy in this great House of 
Representatives. This bulwark, this great light for every other nation, 
we do not have democracy. We have a dictatorship, a strong 
dictatorship, one that rules with an iron hand and tells Members they 
do not have to participate. In fact, we cannot even participate in the 
operation of this House and what legislation goes and what amendments 
are offered and even what debate is had.
  They are limiting time. Even if we get to offer an amendment, 
opponents to it cannot get up and speak unlimited on it and discuss it. 
No, no, 10 minutes, 15 minutes for a major amendment. Why? Because they 
want to run this House with an iron hand, not with openness, not with 
democracy. There is no democracy in this House of Representatives.
  Mr. McINNIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  It is awful hard not to like the gentleman from Missouri. His 
comments are amusing, but his comments certainly are not relevant here. 
He talks about the fact that I, as a representative of the majority 
party here today, am trying to gag the minority party. I think he 
probably had 20 speakers, I have spoken this entire time, he has had 20 
speakers. There is no gagging going on here.
  Let me just say that these comments are all fine, and it may play 
good for the liveliness of this debate because sometimes these rule 
debates get pretty boring; but the fact is this. Your President, our 
President, the President of the United States agrees with this 
continuing resolution. He does not want to shut down the Government 
tomorrow. So I urge my colleague to call his President, call our 
President, call the Democratic National Committee and say, should we 
really vote no on this rule and shut this Government down? Is this the 
right strategy to pursue, to shut down the Government tomorrow? It is a 
darned risky strategy. I do not think they are going to succeed.
  Mr. Speaker, I am trying to offer some advice to the Democrats over 
there that are urging a ``no'' vote. Do not do it, it will backfire on 
you. Do not shut down the Government. Work with us on this rule. 
Cooperate with us. The President is going to sign it. It does not take 
a rocket scientist to figure this thing out. We have got to keep the 
Government operating tomorrow.
  The gentleman talks about fairness and a gag, the minority leader has 
the right to offer the final amendment tomorrow to the gentleman from 
Missouri. We did not gag him. We did not gag any of them in the last 
hour. There is plenty of time for debate. But do not let that debate 
run the next 24 hours and shut this Government down. Because if they 
do, they are making a mistake. We do not need to shut the Government 
down.
  Vote ``yes'' on this rule or take the option of shutting it down. Do 
not do the latter because it will hurt every man, woman, and child in 
this country.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  (Mr. FROST asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks and to include extraneous material.)
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I urge a ``no'' vote on the previous 
question. If the previous question is defeated, I shall offer an 
amendment to the rule which will provide an open rule for consideration 
of a clean continuing resolution without the martial law provisions. 
These extraordinary procedures would allow the House to bring up a 
series of budget bills without the normal 1-day layover period required 
by the rules. It's time to return to the regular order and live by the 
rule which protects the rights of Members on both sides of the aisle.
  I include for the Record the text of the amendment I would offer if 
the previous question were defeated.

                        Amendment to H. Res. 386

       On page 2, strike all after line 9 through the end of the 
     resolution.
       On page 1, strike lines 1 and 2 and insert:
       ``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 joint reso-''
       On page 2, line 4, after the period add the following:
       ``After general debate the joint resolution shall be 
     considered for amendment under the five-minute rule. At the 
     conclusion of consideration of the joint resolution for 
     amendment the Committee shall rise and report the joint 
     resolution to the House with such amendments as many have 
     been adopted. Any Member may demand a separate vote in the 
     House on any amendment adopted in the Committee of the Whole 
     to the joint resolution.''
       Explanation: The amendment to the resolution strips out the 
     martial law provisions of the rule and provides on open rule 
     for consideration of the short-term continuing resolution.

  Mr. Speaker, every single rule the House has adopted this session has 
been a restrictive rule; yes, you heard that correctly, the Republican 
House has so far adopted 100 percent restrictive rules in this session. 
And if it is adopted, the rule before us will leave that 100 percent 
purely restrictive rules record intact.
  This is the 62d restrictive rule reported out of the Rules Committee 
this Congress.

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  In addition more than 72 percent of the legislation considered this 
session has not been reported from committee--8 out of 11 measures 
brought up this session have been unreported.
  At this point I include the following information for the Record.

                FLOOR PROCEDURE IN THE 104TH CONGRESS; COMPILED BY THE RULES COMMITTEE DEMOCRATS                
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                                                                          Process used for floor   Amendments in
            Bill No.                    Title           Resolution No.         consideration           order    
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H.R. 1*........................  Compliance........  H. Res. 6            Closed................           None.
H. Res. 6......................  Opening Day Rules   H. Res. 5            Closed; contained a              None.
                                  Package.                                 closed rule on H.R. 1                
                                                                           within the closed                    
                                                                           rule.                                
H.R. 5*........................  Unfunded Mandates.  H. Res. 38           Restrictive; Motion               N/A.
                                                                           adopted over                         
                                                                           Democratic objection                 
                                                                           in the Committee of                  
                                                                           the Whole to limit                   
                                                                           debate on section 4;                 
                                                                           Pre-printing gets                    
                                                                           preference.                          
H.J. Res. 2*...................  Balanced Budget...  H. Res. 44           Restrictive; only              2R; 4D.
                                                                           certain substitutes.                 
H. Res. 43.....................  Committee Hearings  H. Res. 43 (OJ)      Restrictive;                      N/A.
                                  Scheduling.                              considered in House                  
                                                                           no amendments.                       
H.R. 101.......................  To transfer a       H. Res. 51           Open..................            N/A.
                                  parcel of land to                                                             
                                  the Taos Pueblo                                                               
                                  Indians of New                                                                
                                  Mexico.                                                                       
H.R. 400.......................  To provide for the  H. Res. 52           Open..................            N/A.
                                  exchange of lands                                                             
                                  within Gates of                                                               
                                  the Arctic                                                                    
                                  National Park                                                                 
                                  Preserve.                                                                     
H.R. 440.......................  To provide for the  H. Res. 53           Open..................            N/A.
                                  conveyance of                                                                 
                                  lands to certain                                                              
                                  individuals in                                                                
                                  Butte County,                                                                 
                                  California.                                                                   
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.                           

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H.R. 1868 (2nd rule)...........  Foreign Operations  H. Res. 177          Restrictive; Provides             N/A.
                                  Appropriations.                          for further                          
                                                                           consideration of the                 
                                                                           bill; makes in order                 
                                                                           only the four                        
                                                                           amendments printed in                
                                                                           the rules report (20                 
                                                                           min. each). Waives                   
                                                                           all points of order                  
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           amendments; Prohibits                
                                                                           intervening motions                  
                                                                           in the Committee of                  
                                                                           the Whole; Provides                  
                                                                           for an automatic rise                
                                                                           and report following                 
                                                                           the disposition of                   
                                                                           the amendments.                      
H.R. 1977 *Rule Defeated*......  Interior            H. Res. 185          Open; waives sections             N/A.
                                  Appropriations.                          302(f) and 308(a) of                 
                                                                           the Budget Act and cl                
                                                                           2 and cl 6 of rule                   
                                                                           XXI; provides that                   
                                                                           the bill be read by                  
                                                                           title; waives all                    
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against the Tauzin                   
                                                                           amendment; self-                     
                                                                           executes Budget                      
                                                                           Committee amendment;                 
                                                                           waives cl 2(e) of                    
                                                                           rule XXI against                     
                                                                           amendments to the                    
                                                                           bill; Pre-printing                   
                                                                           gets priority.                       
H.R. 1977......................  Interior            H.Res. 187           Open; waives sections             N/A.
                                  Appropriations.                          302(f), 306 and                      
                                                                           308(a) of the Budget                 
                                                                           Act; waives clauses 2                
                                                                           and 6 of rule XXI                    
                                                                           against provisions in                
                                                                           the bill; waives all                 
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against the Tauzin                   
                                                                           amendment; provides                  
                                                                           that the bill be read                
                                                                           by title; self-                      
                                                                           executes Budget                      
                                                                           Committee amendment                  
                                                                           and makes NEA funding                
                                                                           subject to House                     
                                                                           passed authorization;                
                                                                           waives cl 2(e) of                    
                                                                           rule XXI against the                 
                                                                           amendments to the                    
                                                                           bill; Pre-printing                   
                                                                           gets priority.                       
H.R. 1976......................  Agriculture         H. Res. 188          Open; waives clauses 2            N/A.
                                  Appropriations.                          and 6 of rule XXI                    
                                                                           against provisions in                
                                                                           the bill; provides                   
                                                                           that the bill be read                
                                                                           by title; Makes Skeen                
                                                                           amendment first order                
                                                                           of business, if                      
                                                                           adopted the amendment                
                                                                           will be considered as                
                                                                           base text (10 min.);                 
                                                                           Pre-printing gets                    
                                                                           priority.                            
H.R. 1977 (3rd rule)...........  Interior            H. Res. 189          Restrictive; provides             N/A.
                                  Appropriations.                          for the further                      
                                                                           consideration of the                 
                                                                           bill; allows only                    
                                                                           amendments pre-                      
                                                                           printed before July                  
                                                                           14th to be                           
                                                                           considered; limits                   
                                                                           motions to rise.                     
H.R. 2020......................  Treasury Postal     H. Res. 190          Open; waives cl. 2 and            N/A.
                                  Appropriations.                          cl. 6 of rule XXI                    
                                                                           against provisions in                
                                                                           the bill; provides                   
                                                                           the bill be read by                  
                                                                           title; Pre-printing                  
                                                                           gets priority.                       
H.J. Res. 96...................  Disapproving MFN    H. Res. 193          Restrictive; provides             N/A.
                                  for China.                               for consideration in                 
                                                                           the House of H.R.                    
                                                                           2058 (90 min.) And                   
                                                                           H.J. Res. 96 (1 hr).                 
                                                                           Waives certain                       
                                                                           provisions of the                    
                                                                           Trade Act.                           
H.R. 2002......................  Transportation      H. Res. 194          Open; waives cl. 3 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).                    

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H.R. 2586......................  Temporary Increase  H. Res. 262          Closed; provides for              N/A.
                                  in the Statutory                         the immediate                        
                                  Limit on the                             consideration of a                   
                                  Public Debt.                             motion by the                        
                                                                           Majority Leader or                   
                                                                           his designees to                     
                                                                           dispose of the Senate                
                                                                           amendments (1hr).                    
H. Res. 250....................  House Gift Rule     H. Res. 268          Closed; provides for                2R
                                  Reform.                                  consideration of the                 
                                                                           bill in the House; 30                
                                                                           min. of debate; makes                
                                                                           in order the Burton                  
                                                                           amendment and the                    
                                                                           Gingrich en bloc                     
                                                                           amendment (30 min.                   
                                                                           each); waives all                    
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           amendments; Gingrich                 
                                                                           is only in order if                  
                                                                           Burton fails or is                   
                                                                           not offered.                         
H.R. 2564......................  Lobbying            H. Res. 269          Open; waives cl.                  N/A.
                                  Disclosure Act of                        2(l)(6) of rule XI                   
                                  1995.                                    against the bill's                   
                                                                           consideration; waives                
                                                                           all points of order                  
                                                                           against the Istook                   
                                                                           and McIntosh                         
                                                                           amendments.                          
H.R. 2606......................  Prohibition on      H. Res. 273          Restrictive; waives               N/A.
                                  Funds for Bosnia                         all points of order                  
                                  Deployment.                              against the bill's                   
                                                                           consideration;                       
                                                                           provides one motion                  
                                                                           to amend if offered                  
                                                                           by the Minority                      
                                                                           Leader or designee (1                
                                                                           hr non-amendable);                   
                                                                           motion to recommit                   
                                                                           which may have                       
                                                                           instructions only if                 
                                                                           offered by Minority                  
                                                                           Leader or his                        
                                                                           designee; if Minority                
                                                                           Leader motion is not                 
                                                                           offered debate time                  
                                                                           will be extended by 1                
                                                                           hr.                                  
H.R. 1788......................  Amtrak Reform and   H. Res. 289          Open; waives all                  N/A.
                                  Privatization Act                        points of order                      
                                  of 1995.                                 against the bill's                   
                                                                           consideration; makes                 
                                                                           in order the                         
                                                                           Transportation                       
                                                                           substitute modified                  
                                                                           by the amend in the                  
                                                                           report; Bill read by                 
                                                                           title; waives all                    
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           substitute; makes in                 
                                                                           order a managers                     
                                                                           amend as the first                   
                                                                           order of business, if                
                                                                           adopted it is                        
                                                                           considered base text                 
                                                                           (10 min.); waives all                
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           amendment; Pre-                      
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           priority.                            
H.R. 1350......................  Maritime Security   H. Res. 287          Open; makes in order              N/A.
                                  Act of 1995.                             the committee                        
                                                                           substitute as                        
                                                                           original text; makes                 
                                                                           in order a managers                  
                                                                           amendment which if                   
                                                                           adopted is considered                
                                                                           as original text (20                 
                                                                           min.) unamendable;                   
                                                                           pre-printing gets                    
                                                                           priority.                            
H.R. 2621......................  To Protect Federal  H. Res.              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. ** NR.                      
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. ** NR.                     
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. ** NR.                      
H.R. 2924......................  Social Security     H. Res. 355          Closed; ** NR.........            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.                       NR.                                  
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. **                  
                                                                           NR.                                  
H.R. 2703......................  The Effective       H. Res. 380          Restrictive; makes in        6D; 7R; 4
                                  Death Penalty and                        order only the            Bipartisan.
                                  Public Safety Act                        amendments printed in                
                                  of 1996.                                 the report; waives                   
                                                                           all points of orer                   
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           amendments; gives                    
                                                                           Judiciary Chairman en                
                                                                           bloc authority (20                   
                                                                           min.) on enblocs;                    
                                                                           provides a Senate                    
                                                                           hook-up with S. 735.                 
                                                                           ** NR.                               
H.R. 2202......................  The Immigration     H. Res. 384          Restrictive; waives        12D; 19R; 1
                                  and National                             all points of order       Bipartisan.
                                  Interest Act of                          against the bill and                 
                                  1995.                                    amendments in the                    
                                                                           report except for                    
                                                                           those arising under                  
                                                                           sec. 425(a) of the                   
                                                                           Budget Act (unfunded                 
                                                                           mandates); 2 hrs. of                 
                                                                           general debate on the                
                                                                           bill; makes in order                 
                                                                           the committee                        
                                                                           substitute as base                   
                                                                           text; makes in order                 
                                                                           only the amends in                   
                                                                           the report; gives the                
                                                                           Judiciary Chairman en                
                                                                           bloc authority (20                   
                                                                           min.) of debate on                   
                                                                           the en blocs; self-                  
                                                                           executes the Smith                   
                                                                           (TX) amendment re:                   
                                                                           employee verification                
                                                                           program..                            
H.J. Res. 165..................  Making further      H. Res. 386          Closed; provides for              N/A.
                                  continuing                               the consideration of                 
                                  appropriations                           the CR in the House                  
                                  for FY 1996.                             and gives one motion                 
                                                                           to recommit which may                
                                                                           contain instructions                 
                                                                           only if offered by                   
                                                                           the Minority Leader;                 
                                                                           the rule also waives                 
                                                                           cl 4(b) of rule XI                   
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           following: an omnibus                
                                                                           appropriations bill,                 
                                                                           another CR, a bill                   
                                                                           extending the debt                   
                                                                           limit. ** NR.                        
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Contract Bills, 67% restrictive; 33% open. ** All legislation 1st Session, 53% restrictive; 47% open. ***     
  Legislation 2d Session. 91% restrictive; 9% open. **** All legislation 104th Congress 62% restrictive; 38%    
  open. ***** NR indicates that the legislation being considered by the House for amendment has circumvented    
  standard procedure and was never reported from any House committee. ****** 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. FROST. Mr. Speaker, as I stated earlier, I am asking for a ``no'' 
vote on the previous question. This matter, we fully explored this 
matter today. I would only point out to the gentleman on the other side 
the concept of martial law really was a concept that was talked about 
by a Member on his side of the aisle during preceding Congresses, the 
gentleman from Pennsylvania, Mr. Walker, who is still with us, and he 
may want to discuss that with Mr. Walker some time. But it is Mr. 
Walker, who when we were in the majority, stood up at that microphone 
when they were in the minority and railed against this procedure time 
and time again. I have not seen Mr. Walker on the floor today.
  Mr. Speaker, I would be interested to share his observations at this 
point because he was the leading proponent on your side of the aisle 
for not suspending the rules, for not doing what you are doing today 
and have done for 4 months now. I urge my colleagues to vote down the 
previous question and to proceed with the consideration of this measure 
in an orderly manner.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. McINNIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, let us first start out by advising the gentleman from 
Texas that the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. Gephardt] is the one who 
first utilized this rule in this fashion. Second of all, I do consider 
the gentleman from Texas a professional friend. We have had a good 
working business relationship. But let me offer a little advice. Do not 
shut down the Government in a battle over this rule. It is not right. 
It is not going to work, and it is going to backfire on you.
  Now, from a political viewpoint, maybe it would benefit the 
Republicans for you to take the hit on this deal, but you do not need 
to take the hit. I am putting myself above that partisanship and 
worrying about 250 million people, 230 million people in this country. 
We

[[Page H2576]]

do not need to shut the Government down. That is exactly what you are 
doing by urging what is, in essence, a ``no'' vote on the rule. Let us 
pass the rule. Let us get some more negotiating time for the good-faith 
negotiations that are going on between the President, the U.S. Senate 
and the U.S. House.
  Mr. Speaker, on this issue of the rule, the gentleman from Texas [Mr. 
Frost] had the opportunity last night to entertain the type of motions 
that he is now having introduced into the Record. In fact, he did not 
bring it up on his own initiative, as certainly he had in the past, but 
he did not bring it up last night. I am not being critical of that 
point. The point I am making is the chairman of the committee, the 
Republican chairman, offered to the gentleman from Texas the 
opportunity to do exactly what he is attempting to do today on the 
floor.
  Mr. Speaker, now they have revised their strategy, and I think their 
strategy is headed straight for a Government shutdown as that hand 
moves 24 hours on that clock. We do not want to close this Government 
down. We should not want to close this Government down. Let us keep the 
Government open. Let us vote ``yes'' on the rule.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and I move the 
previous question on the resolution.
  The previous question was ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Burton of Indiana). The question is on 
ordering the previous question.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the noes appeared to have it.
  Mr. McINNIS. 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.
  Pursuant to clause 5 of rule XV, the Chair announces that he will 
reduce to a minimum of 5 minutes the period of time within which a vote 
by electronic device, if ordered, will be taken on the question of 
agreeing to the resolution.
  The Sergeant at Arms will notify absent Members.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 234, 
nays 187, not voting 10, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 80]

                               YEAS--234

     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
     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
     Cooley
     Cox
     Crane
     Crapo
     Cremeans
     Cubin
     Cunningham
     Davis
     Deal
     DeLay
     Diaz-Balart
     Dickey
     Doolittle
     Dornan
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Ehlers
     Ehrlich
     Emerson
     English
     Ensign
     Everett
     Ewing
     Fawell
     Fields (TX)
     Flanagan
     Foley
     Fowler
     Fox
     Franks (CT)
     Franks (NJ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Frisa
     Funderburk
     Gallegly
     Ganske
     Gekas
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Goodlatte
     Goodling
     Goss
     Graham
     Greenwood
     Gunderson
     Gutknecht
     Hall (TX)
     Hancock
     Hansen
     Hastert
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Heineman
     Herger
     Hilleary
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Hoke
     Horn
     Hostettler
     Houghton
     Hunter
     Hutchinson
     Hyde
     Inglis
     Istook
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Kasich
     Kelly
     Kim
     King
     Kingston
     Klug
     Knollenberg
     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
     Myers
     Myrick
     Nethercutt
     Neumann
     Ney
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Oxley
     Packard
     Parker
     Paxon
     Petri
     Pombo
     Porter
     Portman
     Pryce
     Quillen
     Quinn
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Riggs
     Roberts
     Rogers
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     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)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     White
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Zeliff
     Zimmer

                               NAYS--187

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Andrews
     Baldacci
     Barcia
     Barrett (WI)
     Becerra
     Beilenson
     Bentsen
     Berman
     Bevill
     Bishop
     Bonior
     Borski
     Boucher
     Brewster
     Browder
     Brown (CA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brown (OH)
     Bryant (TX)
     Cardin
     Chapman
     Clay
     Clayton
     Clement
     Clyburn
     Coleman
     Collins (MI)
     Condit
     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
     Geren
     Gibbons
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green
     Gutierrez
     Hall (OH)
     Hamilton
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Hefner
     Hilliard
     Hinchey
     Holden
     Hoyer
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jacobs
     Jefferson
     Johnson (SD)
     Johnson, E. B.
     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
     Mollohan
     Montgomery
     Moran
     Murtha
     Nadler
     Neal
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Orton
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pastor
     Payne (NJ)
     Payne (VA)
     Pelosi
     Peterson (FL)
     Peterson (MN)
     Pickett
     Pomeroy
     Poshard
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reed
     Richardson
     Rivers
     Roemer
     Rose
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Sabo
     Sanders
     Sawyer
     Schroeder
     Schumer
     Scott
     Serrano
     Sisisky
     Skaggs
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Spratt
     Stenholm
     Studds
     Stupak
     Tanner
     Taylor (MS)
     Tejeda
     Thompson
     Thornton
     Thurman
     Torres
     Torricelli
     Towns
     Traficant
     Velazquez
     Vento
     Visclosky
     Volkmer
     Ward
     Watt (NC)
     Waxman
     Wilson
     Wise
     Woolsey
     Wynn
     Yates

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Collins (IL)
     Forbes
     Johnston
     Moakley
     Radanovich
     Scarborough
     Stark
     Stokes
     Waters
     Williams

                              {time}  1159

  Ms. RIVERS and Mr. COYNE changed their vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  Mr. GILMAN changed his vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So the previous question was ordered.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                          personal explanation

  Mr. SCARBOROUGH. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 80, I was unavoidably 
detained and was unable to vote. Had I been present, I would have voted 
``yea.''
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Burton of Indiana). The question is on 
the resolution.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.


                             recorded vote

  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 237, 
noes 183, not voting 11, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 81]

                               AYES--237

     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
     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
     Cooley
     Crane
     Crapo
     Cremeans
     Cubin
     Cunningham
     Davis
     Deal
     DeLay
     Diaz-Balart
     Dickey
     Doolittle
     Dornan
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Ehlers
     Ehrlich
     Emerson
     English
     Ensign
     Everett
     Ewing
     Fawell
     Fields (TX)
     Flanagan
     Foley
     Forbes
     Fowler
     Fox
     Franks (CT)
     Franks (NJ)

[[Page H2577]]


     Frelinghuysen
     Frisa
     Funderburk
     Gallegly
     Ganske
     Gekas
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Goodlatte
     Goodling
     Goss
     Graham
     Greenwood
     Gunderson
     Gutknecht
     Hall (TX)
     Hancock
     Hansen
     Hastert
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Heineman
     Herger
     Hilleary
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Hoke
     Horn
     Hostettler
     Houghton
     Hunter
     Hutchinson
     Hyde
     Inglis
     Istook
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Kasich
     Kelly
     Kim
     King
     Kingston
     Klug
     Knollenberg
     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
     Montgomery
     Moorhead
     Morella
     Myers
     Myrick
     Nethercutt
     Neumann
     Ney
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Oxley
     Packard
     Parker
     Paxon
     Petri
     Pombo
     Porter
     Portman
     Pryce
     Quillen
     Quinn
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Riggs
     Roberts
     Rogers
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roth
     Roukema
     Royce
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Saxton
     Scarborough
     Schaefer
     Schiff
     Seastrand
     Sensenbrenner
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Shuster
     Skeen
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Souder
     Spence
     Stearns
     Stockman
     Stump
     Talent
     Tate
     Tauzin
     Taylor (NC)
     Thomas
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Torkildsen
     Traficant
     Upton
     Vucanovich
     Waldholtz
     Walker
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Watts (OK)
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     White
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Zeliff
     Zimmer

                               NOES--183

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Andrews
     Baldacci
     Barcia
     Barrett (WI)
     Becerra
     Beilenson
     Bentsen
     Berman
     Bevill
     Bishop
     Bonior
     Borski
     Boucher
     Brewster
     Browder
     Brown (CA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brown (OH)
     Bryant (TX)
     Cardin
     Chapman
     Clay
     Clayton
     Clement
     Clyburn
     Coleman
     Collins (MI)
     Condit
     Conyers
     Costello
     Coyne
     Cramer
     Danner
     de la Garza
     DeFazio
     DeLauro
     Dellums
     Deutsch
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Dixon
     Doggett
     Dooley
     Doyle
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Evans
     Fattah
     Fazio
     Fields (LA)
     Filner
     Flake
     Foglietta
     Ford
     Frank (MA)
     Frost
     Furse
     Gejdenson
     Gephardt
     Geren
     Gibbons
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green
     Gutierrez
     Hall (OH)
     Hamilton
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Hefner
     Hilliard
     Hinchey
     Holden
     Hoyer
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jacobs
     Jefferson
     Johnson (SD)
     Johnson, E. B.
     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
     Mollohan
     Moran
     Murtha
     Nadler
     Neal
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Orton
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pastor
     Payne (NJ)
     Payne (VA)
     Pelosi
     Peterson (FL)
     Peterson (MN)
     Pickett
     Pomeroy
     Poshard
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reed
     Richardson
     Rivers
     Roemer
     Rose
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Sabo
     Sanders
     Sawyer
     Schroeder
     Schumer
     Scott
     Serrano
     Sisisky
     Skaggs
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Spratt
     Stenholm
     Studds
     Stupak
     Tanner
     Taylor (MS)
     Tejeda
     Thompson
     Thornton
     Thurman
     Torres
     Torricelli
     Towns
     Velazquez
     Vento
     Visclosky
     Volkmer
     Ward
     Watt (NC)
     Waxman
     Wise
     Woolsey
     Wynn
     Yates

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Collins (IL)
     Cox
     Farr
     Johnston
     Moakley
     Radanovich
     Solomon
     Stark
     Stokes
     Waters
     Williams

                              {time}  1208

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

                          ____________________