[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 63 (Wednesday, May 8, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H4536-H4550]
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 ESTABLISHING SELECT SUBCOMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE UNITED STATES ROLE IN 
              IRANIAN ARMS TRANSFERS TO CROATIA AND BOSNIA

  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I 
call up House Resolution 416 and ask for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                              H. Res. 416

       Resolved, That (a) there is established a Select 
     Subcommittee on the United States Role in Iranian Arms 
     Transfers to Croatia and Bosnia (hereinafter referred to as 
     the ``select subcommittee'') of the Committee on 
     International Relations. The select subcommittee is 
     authorized to sit and act during this Congress at such times 
     and places within the United States, including any common-
     wealth or possession thereof, or in any other country, 
     whether the House is in session or has adjourned.
       (b) The select subcommittee shall be composed of 8 members 
     of the Committee on International Relations appointed by the 
     chairman of the Committee on International Relations, 5 of 
     whom shall be members of the majority party and 3 of whom 
     shall be appointed upon the recommendation of the ranking 
     minority party member of the committee. The chairman of the 
     Committee on International Relations shall designate one of 
     the majority party members as chairman. Any vacancy occurring 
     in the membership of the select subcommittee shall be filled 
     in the same manner in which the original appointment was 
     made.
       (c) The select subcommittee is authorized and directed to 
     conduct a full and complete investigation, and to make such 
     findings and recommendations to the Committee on

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     International Relations as the select subcommittee deems 
     appropriate relating to the following matters:
       (1) The policy of the United States Government with respect 
     to the transfer of arms and other assistance from Iran or any 
     other country to countries or entities within the territory 
     of the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during any 
     period that an international arms embargo of the former 
     Yugoslavia was in effect.
       (2) The nature and extent of the transfer of arms or other 
     assistance from Iran or any other country to countries or 
     entities within the territory of the former Federal Republic 
     of Yugoslavia during the period that an international arms 
     embargo of the former Yugoslavia was in effect.
       (3) Any actions taken by the United States Government to 
     facilitate or to impede transfers described in paragraphs (1) 
     and (2).
       (4) Any communications or representations made to the 
     Congress of the United States or the American people with 
     respect to the matters described in paragraph (1), (2), or 
     (3), with respect to the international arms embargo of the 
     former Yugoslavia, or with respect to efforts to modify and 
     terminate United States participation in that embargo.
       (5) Any implication of the matters described in paragraphs 
     (1), (2), and (3) for the safety of United States Armed 
     Forces deployed in and around Bosnia, for the prompt 
     withdrawal of United States Armed Forces from Bosnia, for 
     relations between the United States and its allies, and for 
     United States efforts to isolate Iran.
       (6) Any actions taken to review, analyze, or investigate 
     any of the matters described in paragraph (1), (2), (3), (4), 
     or (5), or to keep such matters from being revealed.
       (7) All deliberations, discussions, or communications 
     within the United States Government relating to the matters 
     described in paragraph (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), or (6), and 
     all communications between the United States Government (or 
     any of its officers or employees) and other governments, 
     organizations, or individuals relating to such matters.
       (d) The select subcommittee shall be deemed to be a 
     subcommittee of a standing committee of the House of 
     Representatives for all purposes of the Rules of the House, 
     including clause 2(m) of rule XI, but not for purposes of 
     clause 6(d) of rule X. The select subcommittee may sit while 
     the House is reading for amendment under the five-minute 
     rule.
       (e)(1) The chairman of the select subcommittee, for 
     purposes of its investigation, may, upon consultation with 
     the ranking minority party member of the select subcommittee, 
     authorize the taking of affidavits and dispositions pursuant 
     to notice or subpoena, by a member of the select subcommittee 
     or of the staff of the Committee on International Relations 
     designated by the chairman of the select subcommittee, or 
     require the furnishing of information by interrogatory, under 
     oath administered by a person otherwise authorized by law to 
     administer oaths.
       (2) The select subcommittee shall provide other committees 
     and Members of the House with access to information and 
     proceedings, under procedures adopted by the select 
     subcommittee consistent with clause 7(c) of rule XLVIII of 
     the Rules of the House of Representatives. However, the 
     select subcommittee may direct that particular matters or 
     classes of matter shall not be made available to any person 
     by its members, staff, or others, or may impose any other 
     restriction. The select subcommittee shall, as appropriate, 
     provide access to information and proceedings to the Speaker, 
     the majority leader, the minority leader, and their 
     appropriate cleared and designated staff.
       (3) Authorized subpoenas may be signed by the chairman of 
     the select subcommittee.
       (f) The select subcommittee shall transmit a report to the 
     Committee on International Relations not later than 6 months 
     after the date on which this resolution is agreed to. The 
     report shall contain a detailed statement of the findings of 
     the select subcommittee, together with its recommendations.
       (g) The select subcommittee shall cease to exist 6 months 
     after the date on which this resolution is agreed to.

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  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Hansen). The gentleman from New York 
[Mr. Solomon] is recognized for 1 hour.
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, for the purposes of debate only, I yield 
the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Frost], 
pending which I yield myself such time as I might consume. Mr. Speaker, 
during consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is for the 
purpose of debate only.
  Mr. Speaker, House Resolution 416 was introduced on April 29 by the 
distinguished chairman of the Committee on International Relations, the 
gentleman from New York [Mr. Gilman], and referred exclusively to the 
Committee on Rules as a matter of original jurisdiction. It was 
considered by the Rules Committee on May 2 and reported to the floor 
that day.
  This resolution establishes a select committee of the Committee on 
International Relations to investigate the United States role in 
Iranian arms transfers to Croatia and Bosnia. The purpose of the 
resolution is to permit the Committee on International Relations to 
create a select committee, select subcommittee, for the exclusive 
purposes of investigating what role, if any, the United States played 
in the shipment of arms from Iran to Croatia and Bosnia, 
notwithstanding the 1991 United Nations embargo against such shipments 
to the former Nation of Yugoslavia.
  The resolution is designed to focus in a single unit of this House 
the primary responsibility for investigating this matter while 
permitting cooperation with other committees of jurisdiction, 
particularly the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Mr. 
Speaker.
  The resolution is also needed to provide certain additional 
authorities to the subcommittee to permit it to conduct a thorough, yet 
expeditious, investigation, and these would include the authority to 
sit and act both within and without the United States, the ability to 
sit while the House is considering legislation under the 5-minute rule, 
the authority for the chairman of the subcommittee, in consultation 
with the ranking minority member, to designate a single member of the 
subcommittee, or staff of the committee, to take depositions and 
affidavits.
  The select committee would be limited in both time and scope, as it 
should be, as the resolution specifically outlines its parameters and 
contains a 6-month sunset clause.
  Mr. Speaker, I do not want to go to great lengths in describing the 
events leading up to the need for this investigation. Needless to say, 
if the administration had adopted the policy that this Congress has 
recommended on at least two different occasions to unilaterally lift 
the embargo on Bosnia, then we might have avoided such a back-door 
approach by a country we have attempted to isolate, a terrorist Nation 
called Iran. What we know is that while the Clinton administration was 
vigorously opposing congressional attempts to lift this ill-advised, 
immoral arms embargo, it was simultaneously winking at one of the 
world's worst rogue regimes as it violated the arms embargo.
  Mr. Speaker, that not only makes no sense, it is simply outrageous. 
Only this administration, which has proven itself so completely 
incompetent in the field of foreign policy, could conclude that it was 
better for Iran to give arms to Bosnia than for the American Government 
or the American private sector to give arms to Bosnia.
  But even more fundamental questions arise, Mr. Speaker, as to the 
operations of our foreign policy and the administration's obligation to 
keep the Congress fully informed, which in this case it absolutely did 
not.
  Beyond that there are serious questions as to whether the 
administration even attempted to keep those parts of its own executive 
branch charged by law with overseeing such policies fully informed. 
They did not. It appears that not even the CIA was aware of this 
policy. Can my colleagues imagine that? In addition to the Defense 
Department and several U.S. Embassies in the Balkan region not even 
knowing what was going on, I mean they are an integral part of the 
administration and they were not even bothered to be told.
  Mr. Speaker, no one questions the need for secrecy regarding certain 
foreign policy initiatives or actions, certainly not this Member, but 
enough serious questions remain to warrant us getting to the bottom of 
this, and that is what this subcommittee will do, I am sure. I think we 
can have the greatest confidence in the leadership abilities and the 
fairness of the person designated to head this select committee, the 
gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Hyde]. I served on the Committee on 
Foreign Affairs with him for many, many years. In addition, he is the 
chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, highly respected by every 
Member of this body on both sides of the aisle. His foreign policy 
expertise, his intelligence and his integrity are certainly beyond 
reproach.
  Mr. Speaker, I think it is important to point out that this 
resolution does not go as far as some previous select committees or 
task forces have done because this is not a select committee and it is 
not a task force. It is a select subcommittee of a standing committee.
  For instance, a chairman of the subcommittee has not been delegated 
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authority to authorize subpoenas. That must be voted on by the whole 
subcommittee with the majority being present, just like it would be in 
any other standing committee.
  So I want to take this opportunity to commend the gentleman from New 
York [Mr. Gilman] on taking this necessary but very balanced approach 
to this disturbing set of circumstances that have to be cleared up in 
order to find out and to set a precedent for what kind of foreign 
policy we will have in the future.
  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 include extraneous 
material.)
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, this select committee is not only completely 
unnecessary but also completely political.
  It is being created to investigate a policy issue and nobody is 
claiming wrongdoing. Make no mistake about it, the rule we are 
discussing is pure politics and nothing else.
  The creation of this committee and the subsequent expenditure will 
amount to $1 million of work for the Dole campaign.
  The issue my Republican colleagues claim needs investigating, the 
issue of Iranian arms shipments to Bosnia and Croatia, has been common 
knowledge to every single Member of this House since early 1994 and 
absolutely no one objected to those shipments. In fact, in October of 
that same year, Congress voted to look the other way on enforcing the 
arms embargo. Furthermore, the Intelligence Oversight Board determines 
that there was no covert action and no violation of laws whatsoever.
  Mr. Speaker, here are the facts: Everyone knew these arms transfers 
were taking place; nobody objected; a majority of the House voted not 
to enforce sanctions; and absolutely no one is accusing the White House 
of any wrongdoing.
  So why on earth, Mr. Speaker, do my Republican colleagues want to 
spend $1 million to investigate nothing at all?
  Frankly, I don't see how anyone can stand here and tell me this 
ridiculous, trumped up charade which is scheduled to end the week 
before election day is anything more than a cheap political stunt.
  And, may I remind the House, Mr. Speaker, that the creation of this 
committee is being dictated by the same leadership that is asking 
congressional committees to perform opposition research for the Dole 
campaign.
  Mr. Speaker, I think the Republican leadership ought to be ashamed.
  They are creating a whole new congressional committee just because 
they can and it is wrong. They are actually trying to spend $1 million 
to investigate something no one objected to 2 years ago, and, on top of 
that, they are demanding the committee finish its work a week before 
election day.
  I don't think the creation of this committee could be any more 
transparent, Mr. Speaker.
  If this issue really needs to be investigated, which I doubt, and if 
it is not a political move, then why can't it take place in the 
existing structure of one of the standing congressional committees?
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to defeat the previous question in 
order to conduct this investigation within the existing structure of 
the Foreign Affairs Committee and using the existing resources instead 
of an additional $1 million.
  If the previous question is not defeated, I urge my colleagues to 
vote against the resolution to keep our legislative branch out of 
presidential politics: It's a waste of money; it's a waste of time; and 
it's insulting to the American people.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from 
Sanibel, FL [Mr. Goss], a very valuable member of the Committee on 
Rules and also a very valuable member of the Permanent Select Committee 
on Intelligence.
  (Mr. GOSS asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I thank the distinguished gentleman from New 
York [Mr. Solomon] for yielding this time to me.
  Mr. Speaker, this resolution provides a measured and appropriate 
response to recent disturbing disclosures about secret administration 
policy with respect to Iranian arms shipments during the Bosnian 
conflict. I think most Members would agree that there remain many 
serious questions about this policy, the circumstances surrounding its 
formulation and the lack of information provided to the Congress 
regarding its execution. These questions are particularly important 
given the presence of thousands of United States troops in Bosnia and 
the serious national security consequences of encouraging an Iranian 
foothold in Europe. It is not only the clear right, but also the 
obligation of Congress, to conduct a careful review in search of more 
thorough answers to these questions, a point made eloquently at the 
Rules Committee by the distinguished ranking member of the 
International Relations Committee, Mr. Hamilton. Mr. Hamilton advised 
that he believes this is undoubtedly an issue for Congress to 
investigate. As stewards of the management of this House, the majority 
has determined that the most effective means for conducting this review 
is to create a special purpose, temporary, select subcommittee within 
the International Relations Committee, and that is precisely what House 
resolution 416 proposes to do. It is our judgment, and the judgment of 
such respected foreign policy experts in this House as Mr. Gilman and 
Mr. Hyde, that this matter requires the focus, expanded resources, and 
clearly defined authority to gather information of a special select 
subcommittee. Given Mr. Hamilton's reasoned words and his candid 
assessment of the complexity of the issues involved in this matter, I 
am dismayed that some of his Democratic colleagues in the House are 
still resisting this investigation. This resistance is even more 
puzzling given news reports that the minority leader in the other body 
has publicly expressed no opposition to it. Although other committees, 
including Select Intelligence, on which I serve, will be exploring 
certain points of jurisdictional interest, it is sensible and practical 
for one body to accept the primary, exclusive and comprehensive 
responsibility for this task. In addition, through this resolution we 
are clearly defining the job description of this select subcommittee, 
while providing a clear and decisive end-date for the investigation.

  Mr. Speaker, Members of this House and the American people have a 
right to know how it was that, at a time when the administration was 
publicly opposing bipartisan efforts in this Congress to lift the 
Bosnian arms embargo, the President and a few others working for him 
pursued a policy of tacit approval for Iranian arms shipments through 
Croatia to the Bosnian Government. Apparently we had Americans working 
against Americans in our Croatian country team--the White House 
reportedly working against itself and Congress. In addition to the 
troubling gap between the public exhortations of the Clinton 
administration about preserving the arms embargo and the apparent 
private decision to allow Iran to supply arms in contravention of the 
embargo--I am troubled at the apparently calculated lack of 
congressional notification about these events. This was not CIA; 
ironically they were the whistleblowers, according to the press. This 
was a small band of the President's men, it seems. And, perhaps most 
troubling of all, I am deeply concerned about the long-term impact of 
allowing an outlaw terrorist nation, Iran, to establish a presence in 
Bosnia. This goes beyond foolish policy to increased national security 
risks and it is not a matter to be taken lightly by this Congress. We 
need the truth from the White House, the whole truth. This resolution 
starts us in that direction. I support this resolution and urge my 
colleagues to do the same.

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  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Texas 
[Mr. Doggett].
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, this resolution is designed to implement 
the oft-repeated trademark of the self-styled Gingrich revolutionaries: 
Promises made, promises broken. They came to the floor of this Congress 
last January and told us they were interested in reforming the 
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cutting the amount of taxpayer money spent in this Congress.
  As a new Member, I joined with them in that effort. How do they 
proposed to fulfill that promise today? By adding a $1 million 
subcommittee, $1 million paid by the taxpayers of America; another 
subcommittee that is five times more expensive than the average 
subcommittee in this House. That is promises made, promises broken.
  Who says the Republicans do not want to raise the minimum wage? They 
proposed to pay four of their political backers over $100,000 each to 
man this expensive subcommittee. They want to raise the minimum wage. 
They just want to do it for a handful of their political friends, 
instead of for the hardworking people of this country.
  This subcommittee should rightfully be called the rabbit trail 
subcommittee, because they are down there chasing another rabbit. They 
have not got the slightest idea how to solve the real problems of the 
American people, so instead of focusing on those problems, they head 
off to Bosnia. Instead of focusing on solving our problems here at 
home, in dealing with the real troubles that hardworking families 
across this country have, they want to chase off to Bosnia.
  Mr. Speaker, last year they caught shutdown fever and they could not 
seem to get rid of it. This year they are suffering another malady. It 
is the same malady, but there are other symptoms. They are called 
sinking spells. They just keep sinking right on down into the ground in 
the polls, because the American people understand that all they have 
given us is promises made, promises broken. As a solution for this 
sinking spell that they are now suffering, they proposed gimmicks like 
this subcommittee.
  Mr. Speaker, I would say to my Republican colleagues, heal thyselves. 
Stop wasting taxpayer money on this kind of frivolity.
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 1 brief minute to call 
attention to a report that was put out by the Democratic leadership 
back in 1992. It is ``Management of the Federal Government: A Decade of 
Decline.''
  As the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Clinger] says in his letter 
to the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. Gingrich]:

       I have enclosed for your information and your use a staff 
     report from the former Committee on Government Operations 
     entitled ``Managing the Federal Government: A Decade of 
     Decline.'' This report chronicles mismanagement and ethical 
     lapses which occurred throughout the Reagan and Bush 
     administrations.

  I could go on, but it is strange to hear them come here now and 
complain, when they went to considerable time and expense using 
committee staff to put out this report. I just do not understand this 
kind of logic.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Claremont, CA 
[Mr. Dreier], a valuable member of the Committee on Rules.
  (Mr. DREIER asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend for yielding time to me.
  Mr. Speaker, I think some very important questions have to be 
addressed here. That is the reason that we are strongly supporting 
establishment of this subcommittee. It seems to me that as we look at 
these questions, to have my friends on the other side of the aisle 
saying this is totally unnecessary, one must ask: Was the 
administration telling the American people, Congress, our allies, and 
even most of the executive branch one thing while it was doing another? 
Did any of the administration's actions violate U.S. law? Was the U.S. 
Government's role in these arms transfers simply passive, or was it, as 
the Los Angeles Times stated on April 17, more hands on? Which 
Government officials knew about these arms transfers and when?
  How extensive was the effort to keep Congress uninformed of the 
Iranian operations? Why did the Clinton administration allow Iran to 
extend its influence into Europe after the administration had announced 
a policy of isolating Iran? Why would the Clinton administration allow 
Iran, a State Department terrorist nation, as it is designated, to 
unilaterally violate the arms embargo, after repeatedly ignoring U.S. 
congressional pleas and directives for the United States to do so? Did 
the administration's action increase the risk to United States Armed 
Forces deployed in Bosnia, or decrease the likelihood of a timely 
withdrawal of United States Armed Forces from Bosnia?
  Mr. Speaker, these are among the many questions that must be 
answered. For my friends on the other side of the aisle to claim that 
this is totally unnecessary is preposterous. These need to be answered 
because of our constitutional responsibility, and the fact that we are 
accountable to the American people and to those who are courageously 
standing and serving on behalf of our country.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Connecticut [Mr. Gejdenson]
  Mr. GEJDENSON. Mr. Speaker, I think it is important to look at the 
history here. We had 4 years of the Bush administration where they did 
nothing while mass murder continued in Yugoslavia. President Clinton 
came along and, with tremendous effort, was able to get a peace process 
that is now holding.
  Why are we here today? The gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Walker] 
and the gentleman from Iowa [Mr. Nussle], two of the gentlemen who are 
the gentleman from Georgia, Mr. Gingrich's, closest associates, sent 
out a message to committee chairmen: Use taxpayer money to get the 
President. What are they trying to get the President on?
  Let us take a look at it. The Iranians were shipping arms to the 
Muslims in the former Yugoslavian area from the beginning, but in April 
1994 the administration did not stop the Iranians from sending arms 
into Bosnia.
  Mr. Speaker, there was no law, no U.N. resolution that mandated they 
do that. But that is what happened in April. In May, the Washington 
Post publishes a report of Iranian arms shipments into the former 
Yugoslavian Republics. That was in April 1994.
  Now we are in May 1994. Everybody who reads the Washington Post now 
knows it is going on, or they ought to have a pretty good suspicion. 
What happens in June? Congress passes an amendment calling for a 
unilateral lifting of the arms embargo, violating our U.N. agreement, 
maybe putting our embargo of Libya in danger. But we are all concerned 
about what is happening with the slaughter there.
  Just in case Members think Republicans missed the Post article, here 
we have on June 24 a Washington Times story: ``Iranian Weapons Sent. 
Aid Gets U.S. Wink.'' It is included in the Senate Record by Mr. 
McCain, who is leading the effort for Senator Dole's reelection.
  Now, just in case you think Congress knew about it and wanted to stop 
it after it was in the papers, what did Congress do, with the gentleman 
from New York [Mr. Gilman] and the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Hyde] 
voting in favor of the resolution? It passed a resolution in the 
defense authorization bill which said that the President should be 
prohibited from interfering with arms shipments into the former 
Yugoslavian Republics; the President should be prohibited. It did not 
say the President should be prohibited except for the Iranians who have 
been shipping arms there to the Muslims from the beginning. It simply 
said, across the board, the President ought to be prohibited from 
interfering with arms shipments.
  The U.N. resolution did not call on us to take this action. There was 
no congressional action to have the President interfere with Iranian 
arms shipments. To the contrary, this Congress passed a resolution that 
told the President he was not to interfere with arms shipments from 
other countries.
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, it seems odd to see the gentleman from Connecticut, 
whose name has appeared on the National Taxpayers Union's list of 
biggest spenders since the year he came here, complaining about wasting 
taxpayers' money.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to my good friend, the distinguished 
gentleman from California [Mr. Cox], the chairman of the Republican 
Policy Committee.
  Mr. COX of California. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for 
yielding time to me.
  Mr. Speaker, during his recent circumnavigation of the planet, 
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hector our allies about leaning harder on the Iranian mullahs who are 
shipping arms to the Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon. But while he was 
publicly condemning Iran, and while the administration and the 
President were calling Iran the main source of international terrorism, 
we find that President Clinton was in fact conniving for even larger 
Iranian shipments into the Balkans.
  Mr. Speaker, let us take a look at the history of this. It was May 
1992 that the United Nations imposed an arms embargo on the former 
Yugoslavia. The United States supported this arms embargo, but Bill 
Clinton, who was running for President, opposed it. He said it was a 
cruel arms embargo, and that we ought to lift it. He became President 
and completely changed his policy, and broke that promise and said, 
``No, we are going to have an arms embargo, because it would be wrong 
now for anyone to ship arms into the Balkans.''
  The Congress, for its part, agreed with candidate Clinton, not 
President Clinton, and supported lifting the arms embargo with a view 
not to letting Iran into Europe but, rather, our allies such as Saudi 
Arabia and Turkey supply the Bosnian Muslims with arms. But the 
President of the United States opposed even that, and in particular, of 
course, he opposed the United States in any way being involved in arms 
shipments into the Balkans.
  Finally, Mr. Speaker, we discover that the President concealed not 
just from the American people, not just from the Congress, but from the 
CIA and from the Joint Chiefs of Staff the United States' complicity, 
through our American Ambassador, in these direct Iranian shipments into 
the Balkans.
  What is wrong with this? First, it is wrong to structure an operation 
of this type for the express purpose of concealing something from the 
Congress. All that has gone before about whether or not these shipments 
were taking place, whether or not people knew about them, elides over 
the fact that what we did not know and what the CIA station chief did 
not know and what the Joint Chiefs did not know was about the 
administration's and the President's and the Ambassador's own 
involvement, all of this structured for the purpose of concealing this 
from the Congress.
  What about the policy? It is insane. It is absolutely insane to give 
Iran a toehold into Europe. That is the policy that was being concealed 
here. One can understand why.
  Is it worthwhile for us to have a very time-limited and financially 
limited committee to take a look at this? Of course it is.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
Colorado [Mrs. Schroeder].
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding time 
to me.
  Mr. Speaker, there is more misinformation going on around here, and 
especially by people who call themselves great budget hawks. Let us 
talk about what is going on. They want $1 million, that is five times 
more than the average subcommittee has in this Congress, $1 million for 
a short-term subcommittee. They are going to take care of these people, 
too. Four are going to make over $100,000 apiece.
  They have a line item in here for bottled water. This is the bottled 
water subcommittee. They have another line item that they get new RCA 
color TV's. That makes you wonder a bit, too. But the real issue is 
this House is already spending $37.2 million for 132 staff people to 
look at foreign affairs issues. There are supposedly three Bosnia 
investigations going on right now in those standing committees, so this 
will be investigation No. 4.
  The only way I can read this is the three are not turning up what 
they want, or they figure if you have four and you keep having enough 
committees out there, maybe somebody will finally find something on 
President Clinton. This is desperation politics, I think, at its very 
worst.
  Let us think about what else they did. We have done away with the 
committee on drugs, we have done away with the committee for seniors, 
we have even done away with the committee on hunger, children, youth, 
and families. Apparently those are not issues anymore. We do not have 
enough money to spend on those issues. But we can now have the fourth 
investigation on Bosnia, the fourth.
  Mr. Speaker, that does not make any sense to me. I think if we do not 
think the other three are doing well, then fire the people who are in 
charge of them, put the right people in, but you do not keep piling on 
more. That is why we are so suspicious. Having this follow the 
political memo, this looks like a political subcommittee.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Indiana [Mr. Hamilton].
  Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding time to 
me.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the resolution. I think it is 
overkill. This is really not the way to handle a dispute on American 
foreign policy.

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  The select committee is unnecessary. There are no compelling reasons 
for it. There really are no disputes about the facts. There are no 
allegations of violation of the law. It is a simple dispute over 
policy.
  The fact is that in the spring of 1994, the President had some very 
tough judgments to make. Does he try to stop the arms shipment and 
watch the Bosnian Government go down the tubes? Does he lift the arms 
embargo unilaterally, and that would fracture the NATO allies? Or does 
he do nothing, and thereby allow shipments of arms from Iran to go 
through Croatia to Bosnia?
  He chose the third alternative. Some people may disagree with that. 
Some may believe it is bad policy, but three things about it I think 
can be said: First, the policy worked. It produced peace, and through 
this peace the Iranian presence in Bosnia has been reduced practically 
to zero. Second, many Members knew about the arms shipment at the time 
and they did not protest. And third, Congress, just 3 months after the 
administration decision, codified into law where it directed that no 
funds be used to enforce the arms embargo.
  The second point I would make is that creating this subcommittee is a 
mistake because it duplicates the efforts of a lot of other committees 
at a cost of about $1 million. There are already three committees in 
the House, I do not know how many in the Senate, looking into this 
matter and will continue looking into it.
  Just a few minutes ago, the Committee on International Relations, the 
full committee, not a subcommittee, under the very able leadership of 
my friend from New York, Mr. Gilman, voted to subpoena the testimony of 
two State Department officials. That is a clear indication that the 
committee is conducting an investigation, and that investigation of 
policy is proper and reasonable, but there is no reason to set up a 
separate subcommittee to do this.
  Finally, may I say that I think it is a mistake to establish this 
subcommittee simply because it falls far short in ensuring the rights 
of the minority. We were not consulted in drafting this resolution. The 
resolution gives the minority almost no role in the establishment or 
the operation of the subcommittee.
  I want to say that I have confidence in the chairman of this select 
committee to be established, I assume the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. 
Hyde]. I think we will work well together. But it is not an 
unreasonable request to insist that the resolution adequately protect 
minority rights.
  Therefore, I urge my colleagues to defeat the resolution. We need 
instead to let the standing committees of the House do their work and 
report back to the House on the question. We do not need a select 
committee with a very large payroll to examine the wisdom of the 
administration's policies.
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the very distinguished 
gentleman from California [Mr. Thomas].
  Mr. THOMAS. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding me the 
time.
  Mr. Speaker, I would respond to my friend and colleague from Indiana 
that he knows full well we just went through a committee funding 
procedure in which the chairman of the select subcommittee made a 
number of statements on the record.
  But before I talk about a comparison between the October Surprise 
Task Force, which was chaired by the gentleman from Indiana, and the 
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select subcommittee, I just think we need to revisit the statements 
made by the chairman of the October Surprise Task Force as to the 
rationale for the Democrats, who were then in the majority, to conduct 
a task force which for 8 months ran without any funding whatsoever and 
wound up spending five times as much, open-ended funding. This is what 
the gentleman from Indiana said when asked about the task force in 
front of the then-Committee on House Administration.
  Representative Lee Hamilton said, quote, ``There was no clear 
pervasive evidence of wrongdoing, but we ought to go forward.'' He said 
he did not know if the allegations were true or false, but we ought to 
spend $4.5 million.
  He then went on and said he did not know, quote, ``how to get to the 
bottom of it unless you have a formal investigation with a body with 
some kind of empowerment to issue subpoenas and to take statements 
under oath.'' He said the objective of the task force that the 
Democrats put in when they were in the majority was a simple one: ``The 
objective is to simply find out what happened.''
  If you heard the gentleman from California [Mr. Cox], about how this 
President, even within the secret inner sanctums of the national 
security structure, did not talk about letting Iran into Europe, I 
think the Congress of the United States ought to at least know what was 
happening.
  Now, let us talk about the funding and the ratios. As I said, the 
October Surprise Task Force operated for over 8 months and spent 
virtually the entire amount of this select subcommittee before ever 
coming before a committee to be authorized to spend money.
  Let us talk about relationships. The gentleman from Indiana said he 
did not know what the relationships were. Hogwash. During the hearing 
in front of the Committee on House Oversight, it was clearly spelled 
out by the chairman of the full committee and the chairman of the 
select subcommittee what those ratios were going to be, and guess what? 
In terms of the consultants, it is a 50-50 split.
  In no use of staff is the now-minority being treated in any way worse 
than the old minority, which is the majority. As a matter of fact, the 
new majority is treating the old majority in a fairer way.
  So there are some differences. We are putting the money up front. We 
have a time limit on it. But the questions, the reason for creating of 
the October Surprise Task Force and this one are the same. We want to 
get to the bottom of what could be a very smelly situation.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Virginia [Mr. Moran].
  Mr. MORAN. Mr. Speaker, it is immoral to stand by while a quarter of 
a million people are massacred as victims of genocide. Maybe that is 
why for the last 2 years the Congress has not done anything about the 
information that it had in June 1994. The Congress reads the papers. It 
listens to its colleagues on the floor of the House and Senate.
  In June 1994, Senator McCain said clearly, unequivocally:

       Croatia has become a major transit point for covert Iranian 
     arms shipments to Bosnia with the tacit approval of the 
     Clinton administration, which publicly remains opposed to a 
     unilateral lifting of the international arms embargo.

  Senator McCain said that to all the Senate. The House was aware of 
that information, and yet for 2 years no Member of the House or the 
Senate has asked for a hearing. No Member of the House or the Senate 
objected to what they knew the administration was doing. We said 
nothing. We are the ones who kept quiet about it.
  I think that there is good reason why we kept quiet about it. For one 
thing, the majority would have as a reason that they might be 
embarrassed that it was the Bush administration that lost Yugoslavia, 
and it was the Bush administration that supported the U.N. Security 
Council resolution that imposed the arms embargo in the first place.
  That arms embargo was supposed to apply to Serbia and Croatia, who 
were the aggressors in the conflict, who had plenty of arms, who had 
access to plenty of arms. But in effect the arms embargo only applied 
to Bosnia, who did not have sufficient arms to protect itself, who did 
not have access to arms, so it was an unfair policy.
  Because it was such an unfair policy, this House of Representatives 
put itself on record 3 months after the Clinton administration was 
aware that the arms might go into Bosnia, we put ourselves on record 
demanding that the Clinton administration do just what we are today 
accusing them of doing. We told the President not to use any 
appropriated funds to enforce the arms embargo, and 3 months later it 
became law. We legally required the Clinton administration to do 
exactly what we are now accusing them of doing, and it was an 
overwhelming vote in both the House and Senate.
  I think that we should also be careful, and I do not want to offer 
any advice to the other side, but to bring up the Iran-Contra situation 
in this context I think is a serious mistake, because the Iran-Contra 
situation was clearly illegal. This was not illegal. The Clinton 
administration did not supply any arms to Bosnia. It did not take any 
overt activity. But it was illegal for the Reagan administration to 
sell arms to Iran and then to use the money subsequently for another 
illegal operation.
  We should not waste the taxpayers' money on this politically inspired 
witch hunt.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I would inquire of the time remaining on each 
side.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Hansen). The gentleman from New York has 
11\1/2\ minutes, and the gentleman from Texas has 13\1/2\ minutes.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 4\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from 
Maryland [Mr. Hoyer].
  (Mr. HOYER asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, it is with a certain degree of sadness that I 
rise. I think frankly that the specter of election-year politics raises 
its head very high in this instance.
  I am one who consistently opposed the Clinton administration's 
policies and without exception supported the unilateral, immediate 
lifting of the arms embargo. I did that so that peoples under siege, 
peoples being raped, pillaged, children being killed, ethnic cleansing 
occurring, yes; genocide occurring could be stopped. I believed that it 
was immoral and wrong for the United States and its Western allies to 
keep from the Bosnian people the means for self-defense. But the West 
as a joint policy, with the British and the French leading the 
argument, ``Do not arm. It will put our troops at risk that are on the 
ground.''
  Contrary to the representations of the gentleman from California [Mr. 
Cox], the President did not lie. He said he wanted a unilateral 
withdrawal, but he thought it would undermine our alliance and 
therefore would not support it.
  But the fact of the matter is we, as the gentleman from Virginia 
pointed out, by law, and I do not know how the gentleman from Illinois 
[Mr. Hyde] or the gentleman from California [Mr. Dornan] or the 
gentleman from New York [Mr. Solomon] or the gentleman from Florida 
[Mr. Goss] or the gentleman from New York [Mr. Gilman] or the gentleman 
from New Jersey [Mr. Smith], who are on the floor, voted on that, but 
we said, ``Mr. President, you must stop arms coming to these 
defenseless people.''
  We said that. We directed them in the defense authorization bill of 
1994. Now, as the Presidential campaign is about to get underway, we 
lament the fact that the President of the United States followed the 
law and allowed them to get from whichever source they could the arms 
to defend their homes, their freedom, the democracy that they wanted to 
establish, the multicultural society which had been a fact of life in 
Sarajevo and in Bosnia.
  What a tragedy, Mr. Speaker, that we now found ourselves driven 
solely by politics to this point where we raise the issue that a 
President of the United States, any President of the United States, and 
I will tell my friend from Virginia, I thought the Bush policy 
initially was correct in Bosnia, which was to leave it to the 
Europeans. It turned out we were all wrong. The Europeans did not 
engage it and solve it. Ultimately the United States had to do that.
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whom I have great respect, and the gentleman from Illinois, for whom I 
have very great respect, are at this time looking at what I believe to 
be a very short time frame, not the long time frame where history will 
judge America not only by what it does, but if we had stopped the 
Bosnians from getting arms from whomever they could, we would have been 
wrong.
  A gentlewoman on your side of the aisle, one of your most 
conservative Members walking with me yesterday said, ``Well, good for 
the Iranians getting them arms. They needed arms, and I was for them 
getting arms.''
  That was an honest, nonpolitical response.

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  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, I cannot imagine any conservative 
Republican woman in this body saying such a thing, but I will have to 
take the gentleman's word for it.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from New York [Mr. 
Gilman], the very distinguished chairman of the Committee on 
International Relations.
  (Mr. GILMAN asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding me time. 
Mr. Speaker, I regret the gentleman from Maryland has characterized 
this as a political action.
  Mr. Speaker, in April 1994, the Clinton administration secretly 
decided to permit Iran to ship weapons to Bosnia in violation of an 
international arms embargo.
  The administration took this action even as it strongly opposed the 
efforts of many of us in the Congress to terminate that unjust embargo 
against Bosnia.
  The administration argued that our allies feared that terminating the 
embargo would endanger their troops on the ground.
  The result of this foolish and deceitful policy has been to give the 
terrorist state of Iran a sizeable foothold in Europe, endangered our 
troops in Bosnia, as well as peace and security there.
  The administration has argued that this is no big deal, stating that 
Congress forced them to stop enforcing the arms embargo in November 
1994.
  According to the Los Angeles Times, the idea of not enforcing the 
embargo was proposed by Senator Sam Nunn at a meeting in August 1994 
with Ambassador Charles Redmond--then our chief negotiator in the 
Balkans.
  The article states that Redmond discussed at length the legislative 
language the administration would accept.
  But he never disclosed that the administration had already given Iran 
a go-ahead to smuggle arms into Bosnia.
  This is the same Iran that the administration's own annual report on 
terrorism, issued just last week, states that it is a major supporter 
of such terrorist groups as Hizbollah and Hamas.
  The report also states, and I quote: ``Because of Tehran's and 
Hizbollah's deep antipathy towards the United States, U.S. missions and 
personnel abroad continue to be at risk.'' Close quote.
  A select subcommittee of our International Relations Committee is 
needed to find out just how and why the Clinton administration made 
this major change in policy without telling Congress, the American 
people, or even our NATO Allies.
  A select committee is needed to find out why--if the administration 
did want the Bosnians to have arms, it allowed a terrorist state like 
Iran to provide the arms and secure a beachhead in the Balkans.
  Accordingly, I urge our colleagues to support the resolution.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
California [Mr. Berman].
  (Mr. BERMAN asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. BERMAN. Mr. Speaker, my friend from New York claims this is not 
political. Forty-five minutes ago he, under the direction of his 
leadership, with the passionate support of his Republican members of 
the Committee on International Relations egging him on, pushed through 
that committee a subpoena of two of our Ambassadors, not to the select 
committee that we are creating for $1 million now, but to the committee 
on International Relations, notwithstanding the fact that the Secretary 
of State this very morning had called him and told him he would make 
these people available at any mutually agreeable time and wanted to do 
anything he could to cooperate with the committee's efforts.
  This is purely political.
  We talk about Iran and we hear these comments. I do remember a time 
when we gave lend-lease to the Stalinist thugs who had committed the 
purges and killed millions of people because we thought a national 
interest required us to do that. The country of Bosnia was about to go 
down. I remember my friend from Illinois speaking in the committee 
about article 51, the compelling moral and legal right to help somebody 
defend themselves from extinction. That was what was at stake in this 
particular issue.
  Mr. Speaker, I have not heard one word of any question of either the 
legality or the morality of this particular decision. Our options were 
not good, we had to make a decision based on the circumstances at the 
time. The administration made that decision. A country was saved. To 
now, for what I believe are truly political motivations as I watched 
what happened this morning in the Committee on International Relations, 
go back to the people who most passionately spoke in favor of helping 
this country get arms to defend itself, now wanting to make political 
hay out of it, I think is quite a tragedy for this House.
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman 
from California [Mr. Dornan], another very distinguished member of this 
body who has served on the Committee on Foreign Affairs with me, served 
on the Committee on National Security and the Permanent Select 
Committee on Intelligence. He is a very outstanding member of this 
body.
  Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, I guess it is every man for himself on both 
sides of the aisle, whether or not their heart is pure and they think 
it is political. If anybody wants to tell me that my feelings on this 
issue are political, I'll just laugh in your face. I have been over 
there in that area more than any other Member of the House or Senate, 
except for staffers on both sides, and administration staffers, and I 
am a bit offended that my good friend from Texas would get up and say 
that it is ridiculous, trumped up, a charade, cheap political stunts, 
he is ashamed of us.
  I am on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in my eighth 
year. What was wrong with the schizophrenic Clinton policy is that the 
leaders of all of our committees, Intelligence, Foreign Affairs, 
Defense, everybody was shut out of this policy. It came down to a 
handful, as I predicted it would 3\1/2\ years ago, to the Strobe Talbot 
team, figuring out how they could have their cake and eat it too.
  It looked like they were licking the boots of the countries that 
wanted no Muslim state on European soil, the leaders of England and 
France, Great Britain and France principally, and then to allow the 
infrastructure of a terrorist state to win the hearts of the people who 
were being genocided was a nightmare policy.
  I read the NID, the National Intelligence Daily, as assiduously as 
any member of our Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. I cannot 
speak for the Senate. And I can feel the pressure building. I can feel 
the similarities to Lebanon, which occurred under my hero, President 
Ronald Reagan, where one suicide terrorist bomber was able to destroy 
241 Navy, Army, and of them 221 young Marines. Now we have got a 
pressure cooker building because we did not have the guts, as I wanted 
to do, to go against the Bush policy and put a helicopter attack raid 
on the Auschwitz type camps that the Serbians were running in Bosnia. 
Remember with the four times more expensive, politicized Gary Sick 
affair, you had to accept that George Bush got on a SR-71 Blackbird, 
ditching his Secret Service at an Air Force base in New Jersey, flew to 
Spain, special refueling tankers, met with Iranian terrorists and come 
back from Spain. Absurd. But my friend who I hold in high esteem said 
let us get the facts. I am talking about Mr. Hamilton.
  All I am saying is let us try to keep politics out of it. Not easy in 
an election year. But let us get the facts and stop the nightmarish 
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the Iranian terrorists who hate our guts and call us the great Satan 
and making their new friends in Bosnia. What a nightmare Clinton has 
created. I predicted it right here.
  Mr. Speaker, here are several reasons why Congress must investigate 
the United States role in Iranian arms transfers to Bosnia:
  First, in response to the overwhelming and horrific evidence of 
atrocities committed against the Bosnians, Members of this House during 
eight different legislative occasions either indicated, authorized, or 
directed the President to lift the arms embargo--unilaterally if 
necessary--and provide arms to the Bosnian Government and treat the 
Croatians fairly.
  Second, at the same time that the Clinton administration was working 
so stridently to prevent Congress from allowing the Bosnians to arm and 
thus defend themselves, it connived to allow the Iranians to gain a 
position of influence through backdoor arms transfers.
  Third, according to the administration's own assessment, the Bosnians 
would have needed at least 1 billion dollars' worth of arms to defend 
themselves--so no one can argue that Iran's program was a suitable 
alternative to United States support.
  Fourth, President Clinton's policy of don't pursue the truth on the 
Iranian arms supply operation was unnecessary and dangerous in the 
extreme. Clinton's small inexperienced Strobe Talbot team withheld from 
Congress, our allies, the CIA and the American people, information 
about Iran's dangerous involvement because they knew it could not 
withstand public scrutiny.
  Fifth, the Clinton administration has been claiming that Congress 
supported their policy of acquiescence toward Iranian arms transfers by 
enacting the Nunn legislation which prohibited United States 
enforcement of the international arms embargo.
  Sixth, according to the May 2 Los Angeles Times, Senator Sam Nunn 
acknowledged that the Clinton administration had encouraged him to 
offer language to terminate United States participation in efforts to 
enforce the embargo--subsequently viewed by the Clinton administration 
as in effect ratifying their policy of inviting Iran into Bosnia. This 
legislation was also political cover for those who were unwilling to 
fight to lift the arms embargo.
  Here are six more facts to consider:
  First, Clinton and other key officials knew about Iranian involvement 
in Bosnia and the approximate scope of their presence from 1993 onward.
  Second, as we learned from the tragedy in Beirut on October 23, 1983, 
it only takes one determined suicide terrorist to slaughter our troops.
  Third, the capture of two Iranian passport holders at a terrorist 
training center in Bosnia by NATO troops last February should cause 
sufficient alarm about Iranian involvement and intentions.
  Fourth, Iran's large diplomatic presence conflicts with the mission 
of IFOR.
  Fifth, Iran has been classified by the United States State Department 
as a terrorist state.
  Sixth, it is characteristic of Clinton's schizophrenic policies and 
leadership that he can sign an antiterrorism bill and at the same time 
introduce a terrorist infrastructure into southern Europe.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Colorado [Mr. Skaggs].
  Mr. SKAGGS. Mr. Speaker, I have three ideas that come to mind in this 
debate right now: footholds; duplication; and the legitimate interests 
of my Republican colleagues.
  There has been, I think, fairly casual use of language and logic in 
suggesting that the President's ``no instructions'' instruction in the 
spring of 1994 occasioned the Iranians gaining a foothold in Bosnia. 
Unclassified intelligence makes it very, very clear that there were 
hundreds of Iranian revolutionary guards and others, unfortunately, in 
Bosnia in 1993, way before any of the events in question here took 
place.
  Second point, the question of duplication. Are we going to learn 
anything new from creating this select subcommittee that we are not 
already going to learn?
  Mr. Speaker, this matter is already under investigation by the House 
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on National 
Security has jurisdiction, the Committee on Government Reform and 
Oversight has jurisdiction. The Committee on International Relations 
can have plenty of jurisdiction, too, without spending one million 
bucks to create another select committee. We have so many people 
looking at this they are going to be stepping all over each other 
trying to schedule witnesses and everything else during the next few 
months.
  Finally, the question, and it is a very legitimate one, should not 
the opposition in the Government; that is, the Republican majority here 
in Congress, in the opposition as to the administration, have a right 
to have their own look at this?
  Of course they should. But let us also keep in mind that the 
distinguished former Senator from New Hampshire, Warren Rudman, a 
Republican who serves on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory 
Board, who used to serve on the Senate Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence, has reviewed the Intelligence Oversight Board 
investigation of this matter and found nothing illegal, no violation of 
U.S. law. This already has the blessing, if you will, of a 
distinguished Republican overseer of the matter. I think that is 
terribly important.
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from 
Florida [Mr. Goss].
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I think the distinguished gentleman from 
Colorado would agree that the comments and the allegations he made 
about Senator Rudman go to a very narrow issue with regard to covert 
action findings, and do not go the broad comprehensive policy we are 
talking about.
  Mr. SKAGGS. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. GOSS. I yield to the gentleman from Colorado.
  Mr. SKAGGS. Mr. Speaker, the point is that Senator Rudman said no 
illegality, no covert action. What is left, as he put it in his words, 
is a matter of politics.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, reclaiming my time, to a very narrow point 
that they were looking into, which we cannot talk about, regrettably, 
too much in the open, I agree that was a correct finding, but it is not 
the whole story.
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Indiana [Mr. Buyer], a member of the Committee on National Security.
  Mr. BUYER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding me time.
  Mr. Speaker, with quite a bit of interest I listened to the debate, 
because I was not here in the Congress back during the Bush 
administration, but I recognize that in 1991, the United Nations, with 
the full support of the United States Government imposed the arms 
embargo on the entire former Yugoslavia. Then, as outgunned, the 
Bosnian military suffered repeated defeats and the Bosnian civilian 
casualties mounted, many people came to see the embargo as unfair to 
the Bosnians.
  In January 1993, when President Clinton took office, he attempted to 
persuade our allies to multilaterally lift the embargo. This attempt 
was not successful, but President Clinton would not support a 
unilateral lifting of the embargo. They continued to support the 
embargo and enforced it with U.S. Naval forces. The Clinton 
administration has always opposed the unilateral lifting of the 
embargo, until the Dayton peace accords were signed in late 1995.
  Now the Undersecretary of State has confirmed the United States 
officially, by this alleged secret agreement with Croatia, turned a 
blind eye to covert arms shipments by Iran into Croatia and Bosnia. 
This leads to the potential of a terrorist state such as Iran claiming 
a foothold into Europe.
  I think that there are many important questions to be asked. What 
prompted the President to enter into a secret agreement with Croatia to 
allow the shipments of large quantities of arms into Bosnia and Iran, 
in violation of the U.N. arms embargo, at the time he was lobbying 
Congress not to lift the arms embargo? Did the administration officials 
initiate this deal, and did it involve them directly or indirectly with 
Iranian officials? Why did the President not notify Congress of the 
secret agreement when it was made at that time? Has the administration 
been honest with the public and private statements on the issue during 
its testimony before Congress, in statements

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to the American people that it is diplomatic dialog with our European 
allies? And were any laws violated?
  We do not know the answers to those questions, and I think it is 
very, very appropriate to ask.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from West 
Virginia [Mr. Wise].

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  Mr. WISE. Mr. Speaker, now I just want to get this straight, myself 
and a lot of taxpayers. This Congress is about to approve a million-
dollar select committee to hold hearings into matters that three other 
subcommittees are already holding hearings into.
  The complaint apparently is that the United States knew that Iran was 
sending arms to the Bosnian Muslims. Now, this is the same Congress 
that voted overwhelmingly to lift the arms embargo so that the Bosnian 
Muslims could get arms from wherever to defend themselves.
  Was not this the same Congress, headed by Senate Majority Leader 
Dole, who led the effort to lift the arms embargo so the Bosnian 
Muslims could get arms from wherever to defend themselves? Mr. Speaker, 
the most open secret around here, if indeed published news reports are 
secret, was that the Bosnian Muslims were getting arms to defend 
themselves from the Iranians, which was what everybody said they wanted 
to happen, that they have arms from somewhere to defend themselves.
  Now that requires a million-dollar select subcommittee, in addition 
to the three subcommittees already investigating it?
  Mr. Speaker, this is a group that likes hearings. I have sat in on a 
bunch of them myself on the Committee on Government Reform and 
Oversight. The record so far is that this million-dollar subcommittee 
will be added to the 44 days of hearings and $30 million that has so 
far been spent on Whitewater; 14 days of hearings on Ruby Ridge; 10 
days of hearings on Waco, that certainly changed national policy; and 
countless wasted hours and taxpayer dollars on other types of 
politically motivated investigations.
  We have three committees already looking into this. Mr. Speaker, 
there is no need to spend a million dollars, add more staff, add more 
fluff, to do what those three committees are already charged with doing 
and are doing.
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman 
from Illinois [Mr. Hyde], someone very important in this debate. He 
will be the chairman of this new select subcommittee. He is one of the 
most respected Members of this body.
  (Mr. HYDE asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. HYDE. Mr. Speaker, you will miss my tirade about October 
Surprise. How soon we forget the greatest wild goose chase in history 
which spent $1.3 million. I have quotations about how important that 
quest was for the Emerald City that my friends on the other side of the 
aisle led us on. Oh, it was not political; it was just 10 years old in 
an election year. But my friends do not know anything about politics, 
and I will not raise the issue.
  Mr. Speaker, we are not talking about the wisdom of the embargo. 
Everybody agreed, except the Clinton administration while they lived 
under it, that the embargo was wrong and immoral. We agree with that. 
But what we are concerned about is the wisdom, the propriety, the 
common sense of standing by while the most terrorist nation on Earth 
comes into the bosom of the most volatile place on Earth. The wisdom of 
that is a legitimate inquiry of the Committee on International 
Relations. It is legitimate.
  We want to know the genesis of this brainstorm, because we need to 
know if there were options? Was Iran the only country that could supply 
training and arms? Is not Turkey nearby? Is not Egypt nearby? Is not 
Pakistan nearby?
  What about the countries that were on our side, the Muslim countries 
in Operation Desert Storm? Why, of all the countries in the world, do 
we turn a blind eye to terrorist Iran? That is a legitimate inquiry.

  Politics? We did not learn about this until April 5, until the Los 
Angeles Times did what the administration should have done: Let us in 
on it. Oh, my Democrat colleagues say we had notices that arms were 
trickling in. Sure. We never knew that we had a policy of looking the 
other way while the most terrorist nation on Earth was getting a 
foothold in the most volatile place on Earth.
  Well, the timing is yours; it is not ours. Politics? Listen, I cannot 
help it if it is an election year. We are not going to abandon our 
responsibility to find out who dreamed up this policy, what is our 
role, what are the options, and most significantly, what are the 
consequences for our troops there? Our credibility as a country, saying 
one thing and doing another, those are important issues. We have a 
responsibility to get at the bottom of them. I wish it was last year, 
but it is not.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  First, Mr. Speaker, I urge a ``no'' vote on the previous question. If 
the previous question is defeated, I will offer an amendment to the 
rule which would make in order a substitute amendment. My substitute 
simply directs the International Relations Committee--using existing 
resources--to do the very same investigation the Republicans would have 
their new subcommittee do.
  There is no dispute that the appropriate committees ought to review 
and investigate the foreign policy decision of this or any other 
President. But before you can say we need to create a new subcommittee, 
you have to establish that the existing committees aren't capable of 
doing their job. No one has made that case. Frankly, the only 
difference between the Republican resolution and our substitute is 
whether to create a million dollar subcommittee or whether to carry out 
the investigation within the current committees using funding already 
available.
  Vote ``no'' on the previous question.
  The text of the proposed amendment is as follows:

       Strike all after the resolving clause and insert the 
     following:
     That (a) the Committee on International Relations is 
     authorized and directed to conduct a full and complete 
     investigation (using existing committee resources), and to 
     make such findings and recommendations to the House as it 
     deems appropriate relating to the following matters:
       (1) The policy of the United States Government with respect 
     to the transfer of arms and other assistance from Iran or any 
     other country to countries or entities within the territory 
     of the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during any 
     period that an international arms embargo of the former 
     Yugoslavia was in effect.
       (2) The nature and extent of the transfer of arms or other 
     assistance from Iran or any other country to countries or 
     entities within the territory of the former Federal Republic 
     of Yugoslavia during the period that an international arms 
     embargo of the former Yugoslavia was in effect.
       (3) Any actions taken by the United States Government to 
     facilitate or to impede transfers described in paragraphs (1) 
     and (2).
       (4) Any communications or representations made to the 
     Congress of the United States or the American people with 
     respect to the matters described in paragraph (1), (2), or 
     (3), with respect to the international arms embargo of the 
     former Yugoslavia, or with respect to efforts to modify or 
     terminate United States participation in that embargo.
       (5) Any implication of the matters described in paragraphs 
     (1), (2), and (3) for the safety of United States Armed 
     Forces deployed in and around Bosnia, for the prompt 
     withdrawal of United States Armed Forces from Bosnia, for 
     relations between the United States and its allies, and for 
     United States efforts to isolate Iran.
       (6) Any actions taken to review, analyze, or investigate 
     any of the matters described in paragraph (1), (2), (3), (4), 
     or (5), or to keep such matters from being revealed.
       (7) All deliberations, discussions, or communications 
     within the United States Government relating to the matters 
     described in paragraph (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), or (6), and 
     all communications between the United States Government (or 
     any of its officers or employees) and other governments, 
     organizations, or individuals relating to such matters.
       (b)(1) The chairman of the Committee on International 
     Relations, for purposes of its investigation, may, upon 
     consultation with the ranking minority party member of that 
     committee, authorize the taking of affidavits and depositions 
     pursuant to notice or subpoena, by a member or staff of the 
     committee designated by the chairman, or require the 
     furnishing of information by interrogatory, under oath 
     administered by a person otherwise authorized by law to 
     administer oaths.
       (2) The Committee on International Relations shall provide 
     other committees and Members of the House with access to 
     information and proceedings, under procedures adopted by the 
     committee consistent with clause 7(c) of rule XLVIII of the 
     Rules of the House of Representatives. However, the committee 
     may direct that particular classified

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     materials shall not be made available to any person by its 
     members, staff, or others, or may impose any other 
     restriction. The committee shall, as appropriate, provide 
     access to information and proceedings to the Speaker, the 
     majority leader, the minority leader, and their appropriately 
     cleared and designated staff.
                                                                    ____


        The Vote on the Previous Question: What It Really Means

       This vote, the vote on whether to order the previous 
     question on a special rule, is not merely a procedural vote. 
     A vote against ordering the previous question is a vote 
     against the Republican majority agenda and a vote to allow 
     the opposition, at least for the moment, to offer an 
     alternative plan. It is a vote about what the House should be 
     debating.
       Mr. Clarence Cannon's Precedents of the House of 
     Representatives, (VI, 308-311) describes the vote on the 
     previous question on the rule as ``a motion to direct or 
     control the consideration of the subject before the House 
     being made by the Member in charge.'' To defeat the previous 
     question is to give the opposition a chance to decide the 
     subject before the House. Cannon cites the Speaker's ruling 
     of January 13, 1920, to the effect that ``the refusal of the 
     House to sustain the demand for the previous question passes 
     the control of the resolution to the opposition'' in order to 
     offer an amendment. On March 15, 1909, a member of the 
     majority party offered a rule resolution. The House defeated 
     the previous question and a member of the opposition rose to 
     a parliamentary inquiry, asking who was entitled to 
     recognition. Speaker Joseph G. Cannon (R-Illinois) said: 
     ``The previous question having been refused, the gentleman 
     from New York, Mr. Fitzgerald, who had asked the gentleman to 
     yield to him for an amendment, is entitled to the first 
     recognition.''
       Because the vote today may look bad for the Republican 
     majority they will say ``the vote on the previous question is 
     simply a vote on whether to proceed to an immediate vote on 
     adopting the resolution . . . [and] has no substantive 
     legislative or policy implications whatsoever.'' But that is 
     not what they have always said. Listen to the Republican 
     Leadership Manual on the Legislative Process in the United 
     States House of Representatives, (6th edition, page 135). 
     Here's how the Republicans describe the previous question 
     vote in their own manual:
       ``Although it is generally not possible to amend the rule 
     because the majority Member controlling the time will not 
     yield for the purpose of offering an amendment, the same 
     result may be achieved by voting down the previous question 
     on the rule. When the motion for the previous question is 
     defeated, control of the time passes to the Member who led 
     the opposition to ordering the previous question. That 
     Member, because he then controls the time, may offer an 
     amendment to the rule, or yield for the purpose of 
     amendment.''
       Deschler's Procedure in the U.S. House of Representatives, 
     the subchapter titled ``Amending Special Rules'' states: ``a 
     refusal to order the previous question on such a rule [a 
     special rule reported from the Committee on Rules] opens the 
     resolution to amendment and further debate.'' (Chapter 21, 
     section 21.2) Section 21.3 continues: Upon rejection of the 
     motion for the previous question on a resolution reported 
     from the Committee on Rules, control shifts to the Member 
     leading the opposition to the previous question, who may 
     offer a proper amendment or motion and who controls the time 
     for debate thereon.''
       The vote on the previous question on a rule does have 
     substantive policy implications. It is the one of the only 
     available tools for those who oppose the Republican 
     majority's agenda to offer an alternative plan.

  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I submit the following material for the 
Record:

          FLOOR PROCEDURE IN THE 104TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION; 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;                 
                                                                           PQ.                                  
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; PQ.                      
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;                 
                                                                           PQ.                                  
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; PQ.                      
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) of 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.                                                            

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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; PQ.                        
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                            order only the            Bipartisan.
                                  Act; 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; PQ.                         
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; PQ.                          
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; PQ.                      
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); PQ.                     
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; PQ.                              
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; PQ.                       
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; PQ.                  
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; PQ.                   
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; PQ.                   
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; PQ.                        
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; PQ.                   
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; PQ. *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 Bliley                     
                                                                           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; PQ.                           
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 sections             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 as well as                
                                                                           cl. 5(a) of rule XXI                 
                                                                           and cl. 1(q)(10) of                  
                                                                           rule X 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; PQ.                   

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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(c) of rule XXI (\3/                
                                                                           5\ requirement on                    
                                                                           votes raising taxes);                
                                                                           PQ.                                  
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(c) of rule XXI (\3/                
                                                                           5\ requirement on                    
                                                                           votes raising taxes);                
                                                                           PQ.                                  
H.R. 1833......................  Partial Birth       H. Res. 251          Closed................            N/A.
                                  Abortion Ban Act                                                              
                                  of 1995.                                                                      
H.R. 2546......................  D.C.                H. Res. 252          Restrictive; waives                N/A
                                  Appropriations FY                        all points of order                  
                                  1996.                                    against the bill's                   
                                                                           consideration; Makes                 
                                                                           in order the Walsh                   
                                                                           amendment as the                     
                                                                           first order of                       
                                                                           business (10 min.);                  
                                                                           if adopted it is                     
                                                                           considered as base                   
                                                                           text; waives cl 2 and                
                                                                           6 of rule XXI against                
                                                                           the bill; makes in                   
                                                                           order the Bonilla,                   
                                                                           Gunderson and                        
                                                                           Hostettler amendments                
                                                                           (30 min.); waives all                
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           amendments; debate on                
                                                                           any further                          
                                                                           amendments is limited                
                                                                           to 30 min. each.                     
H.J. Res. 115..................  Further Continuing  H. Res. 257          Closed; Provides for               N/A
                                  Appropriations                           the immediate                        
                                  for FY 1996.                             consideration of the                 
                                                                           CR; one motion to                    
                                                                           recommit which may                   
                                                                           have instructions                    
                                                                           only if offered by                   
                                                                           the Minority Leader                  
                                                                           or a designee.                       
H.R. 2586......................  Temporary Increase  H. Res. 258          Restrictive; Provides               5R
                                  in the Statutory                         for the immediate                    
                                  Debt Limit.                              consideration of the                 
                                                                           CR; one motion to                    
                                                                           recommit which may                   
                                                                           have instructions                    
                                                                           only if offered by                   
                                                                           the Minority Leader                  
                                                                           or a designee; self-                 
                                                                           executes 4 amendments                
                                                                           in the rule; Solomon,                
                                                                           Medicare Coverage of                 
                                                                           Certain Anti-Cancer                  
                                                                           Drug Treatments,                     
                                                                           Habeas Corpus Reform,                
                                                                           Chrysler (MI); makes                 
                                                                           in order the Walker                  
                                                                           amend (40 min.) on                   
                                                                           regulatory reform.                   
H.R. 2539......................  ICC Termination...  H. Res. 259          Open; waives section    ..............
                                                                           302(f) and section                   
                                                                           308(a).                              
H.J. Res. 115..................  Further Continuing  H. Res. 261          Closed; provides for              N/A.
                                  Appropriations                           the immediate                        
                                  for FY 1996.                             consideration of a                   
                                                                           motion by the                        
                                                                           Majority Leader or                   
                                                                           his designees to                     
                                                                           dispose of the Senate                
                                                                           amendments (1hr).                    
H.R. 2586......................  Temporary Increase  H. Res. 262          Closed; provides for              N/A.
                                  in the Statutory                         the immediate                        
                                  Limit on the                             consideration of a                   
                                  Public Debt.                             motion by the                        
                                                                           Majority Leader or                   
                                                                           his designees to                     
                                                                           dispose of the Senate                
                                                                           amendments (1hr).                    
H. Res. 250....................  House Gift Rule     H. Res. 268          Closed; provides for                2R
                                  Reform.                                  consideration of the                 
                                                                           bill in the House; 30                
                                                                           min. of debate; makes                
                                                                           in order the Burton                  
                                                                           amendment and the                    
                                                                           Gingrich en bloc                     
                                                                           amendment (30 min.                   
                                                                           each); waives all                    
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           amendments; Gingrich                 
                                                                           is only in order if                  
                                                                           Burton fails or is                   
                                                                           not offered.                         
H.R. 2564......................  Lobbying            H. Res. 269          Open; waives cl.                  N/A.
                                  Disclosure Act of                        2(l)(6) of rule XI                   
                                  1995.                                    against the bill's                   
                                                                           consideration; waives                
                                                                           all points of order                  
                                                                           against the Istook                   
                                                                           and McIntosh                         
                                                                           amendments.                          
H.R. 2606......................  Prohibition on      H. Res. 273          Restrictive; waives               N/A.
                                  Funds for Bosnia                         all points of order                  
                                  Deployment.                              against the bill's                   
                                                                           consideration;                       
                                                                           provides one motion                  
                                                                           to amend if offered                  
                                                                           by the Minority                      
                                                                           Leader or designee (1                
                                                                           hr non-amendable);                   
                                                                           motion to recommit                   
                                                                           which may have                       
                                                                           instructions only if                 
                                                                           offered by Minority                  
                                                                           Leader or his                        
                                                                           designee; if Minority                
                                                                           Leader motion is not                 
                                                                           offered debate time                  
                                                                           will be extended by 1                
                                                                           hr.                                  
H.R. 1788......................  Amtrak Reform and   H. Res. 289          Open; waives all                  N/A.
                                  Privatization Act                        points of order                      
                                  of 1995.                                 against the bill's                   
                                                                           consideration; makes                 
                                                                           in order the                         
                                                                           Transportation                       
                                                                           substitute modified                  
                                                                           by the amend in the                  
                                                                           report; Bill read by                 
                                                                           title; waives all                    
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           substitute; makes in                 
                                                                           order a managers                     
                                                                           amend as the first                   
                                                                           order of business, if                
                                                                           adopted it is                        
                                                                           considered base text                 
                                                                           (10 min.); waives all                
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           amendment; Pre-                      
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           priority.                            
H.R. 1350......................  Maritime Security   H. Res. 287          Open; makes in order              N/A.
                                  Act of 1995.                             the committee                        
                                                                           substitute as                        
                                                                           original text; makes                 
                                                                           in order a managers                  
                                                                           amendment which if                   
                                                                           adopted is considered                
                                                                           as original text (20                 
                                                                           min.) unamendable;                   
                                                                           pre-printing gets                    
                                                                           priority.                            
H.R. 2621......................  To Protect Federal  H. Res. 293          Closed; provides for              N/A.
                                  Trust Funds.                             the adoption of the                  
                                                                           Ways & Means                         
                                                                           amendment printed in                 
                                                                           the report. 1 hr. of                 
                                                                           general debate; PQ.                  
H.R. 1745......................  Utah Public Lands   H. Res. 303          Open; waives cl                   N/A.
                                  Management Act of                        2(l)(6) of rule XI                   
                                  1995.                                    and sections 302(f)                  
                                                                           and 311(a) of the                    
                                                                           Budget Act against                   
                                                                           the bill's                           
                                                                           consideration. Makes                 
                                                                           in order the                         
                                                                           Resources substitute                 
                                                                           as base text and                     
                                                                           waives cl 7 of rule                  
                                                                           XVI and sections                     
                                                                           302(f) and 308(a) of                 
                                                                           the Budget Act; makes                
                                                                           in order a managers'                 
                                                                           amend as the first                   
                                                                           order of business, if                
                                                                           adopted it is                        
                                                                           considered base text                 
                                                                           (10 min).                            
H. Res. 304....................  Providing for       N/A                  Closed; makes in order          1D; 2R
                                  Debate and                               three resolutions;                   
                                  Consideration of                         H.R. 2770 (Dornan),                  
                                  Three Measures                           H. Res. 302 (Buyer),                 
                                  Relating to U.S.                         and H. Res. 306                      
                                  Troop Deployments                        (Gephardt); 1 hour of                
                                  in Bosnia.                               debate on each.                      
H. Res. 309....................  Revised Budget      H. Res. 309          Closed; provides 2                N/A.
                                  Resolution.                              hours of general                     
                                                                           debate in the House;                 
                                                                           PQ.                                  
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; PQ.                  
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; PQ.                 
H.R. 1358......................  Conveyance of       H. Res. 338          Closed; provides to               N/A.
                                  National Marine                          take the bill from                   
                                  Fisheries Service                        the Speaker's table                  
                                  Laboratory at                            with the Senate                      
                                  Gloucester,                              amendment, and                       
                                  Massachusetts.                           consider in the House                
                                                                           the motion printed in                
                                                                           the Rules Committee                  
                                                                           report; 1 hr. of                     
                                                                           general debate;                      
                                                                           previous question is                 
                                                                           considered as                        
                                                                           ordered. ** NR; PQ.                  
H.R. 2924......................  Social Security     H. Res. 355          Closed; ** NR; PQ.....            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; PQ.                 
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 Speaker's 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 order                  
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           amendments; gives                    
                                                                           Judiciary Chairman en                
                                                                           bloc authority (20                   
                                                                           min.) on en blocs;                   
                                                                           provides a Senate                    
                                                                           hook-up with S. 735.                 
                                                                           ** NR.                               

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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; PQ.                         
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.                        
H.R. 125.......................  The Gun Crime       H. Res. 388          Closed; self-executes              N/A
                                  Enforcement and                          an amendment;                        
                                  Second Amendment                         provides one motion                  
                                  Restoration Act                          to recommit which may                
                                  of 1996.                                 contain instructions                 
                                                                           only if offered by                   
                                                                           the Minority Leader                  
                                                                           or his designee. **                  
                                                                           NR.                                  
H.R. 3136......................  The Contract With   H. Res. 391          Closed; provides for               N/A
                                  America                                  the consideration of                 
                                  Advancement Act                          the bill in the                      
                                  of 1996.                                 House; self-executes                 
                                                                           an amendment in the                  
                                                                           Rules report; waives                 
                                                                           all points of order,                 
                                                                           except sec. 425(a)                   
                                                                           (unfunded mandates)                  
                                                                           of the CBA, against                  
                                                                           the bill's                           
                                                                           consideration; orders                
                                                                           the PQ except 1 hr.                  
                                                                           of general debate                    
                                                                           between the Chairman                 
                                                                           and Ranking Member of                
                                                                           Ways and Means; one                  
                                                                           Archer amendment (10                 
                                                                           min.); one motion to                 
                                                                           recommit which may                   
                                                                           contain instructions                 
                                                                           only if offered by                   
                                                                           the Minority Leader                  
                                                                           or his designee;                     
                                                                           Provides a Senate                    
                                                                           hookup if the Senate                 
                                                                           passes S. 4 by March                 
                                                                           30, 1996. **NR.                      
H.R. 3103......................  The Health          H. Res. 392          Restrictive: 2 hrs. of             N/A
                                  Coverage                                 general debate (45                   
                                  Availability and                         min. split by Ways                   
                                  Affordability Act                        and Means) (45 split                 
                                  of 1996.                                 by Commerce) (30                     
                                                                           split by Economic and                
                                                                           Educational                          
                                                                           Opportunities); self-                
                                                                           executes H.R. 3160 as                
                                                                           modified by the                      
                                                                           amendment in the                     
                                                                           Rules report as                      
                                                                           original text; waives                
                                                                           all points of order,                 
                                                                           except sec. 425(a)                   
                                                                           (unfunded mandates)                  
                                                                           of the CBA; makes in                 
                                                                           order a Democratic                   
                                                                           substitute (1 hr.)                   
                                                                           waives all points of                 
                                                                           order, except sec.                   
                                                                           425(a) (unfunded                     
                                                                           mandates) of the CBA,                
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           amendment; one motion                
                                                                           to recommit which may                
                                                                           contain instructions                 
                                                                           only if offered by                   
                                                                           the Minority Leader                  
                                                                           or his designee;                     
                                                                           waives cl 5(c) of                    
                                                                           Rule XXI (requiring                  
                                                                           \3/5\ vote on any tax                
                                                                           increase) on votes on                
                                                                           the bill, amendments                 
                                                                           or conference reports.               
H.J. Res. 159..................  Tax Limitation      H. Res. 395          Restrictive; provides               1D
                                  Constitutional                           for consideration of                 
                                  Amendment.                               the bill in the                      
                                                                           House; 3 hrs of                      
                                                                           general debate; Makes                
                                                                           in order H.J. Res.                   
                                                                           169 as original text;                
                                                                           allows for an                        
                                                                           amendment to be                      
                                                                           offered by the                       
                                                                           Minority Leader or                   
                                                                           his designee (1 hr)                  
                                                                           ** NR; PQ.                           
H.R. 842.......................  Truth in Budgeting  H. Res. 396          Open; 2 hrs. of                    N/A
                                  Act.                                     general debate; Pre-                 
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           priority.                            
H.R. 2715......................  Paperwork           H. Res. 409          Open; Preprinting get              N/A
                                  Elimination Act                          priority.                            
                                  of 1996.                                                                      
H.R. 1675......................  National Wildlife   H. Res. 410          Open; Makes the Young              N/A
                                  Refuge                                   amendment printed in                 
                                  Improvement Act                          the 4/16/96 Record in                
                                  of 1995.                                 order as original                    
                                                                           text; waives cl 7 of                 
                                                                           rule XVI against the                 
                                                                           amendment;                           
                                                                           Preprinting gets                     
                                                                           priority; **NR.                      
H.J. Res. 175..................  Further Continuing  H. Res. 411          Closed; provides for               N/A
                                  Appropriations                           consideration of the                 
                                  for FY 1996.                             bill in the House;                   
                                                                           one motion to                        
                                                                           recommit which, if                   
                                                                           containing                           
                                                                           instructions, may be                 
                                                                           offered by the                       
                                                                           Minority Leader or                   
                                                                           his designee. **NR.                  
H.R. 2641......................  United States       H. Res. 418          Open; Pre-printing                 N/A
                                  Marshals Service                         gets priority; Senate                
                                  Improvement Act                          hook-up. **PQ.                       
                                  of 1996.                                                                      
H.R. 2149......................  The Ocean Shipping  H. Res. 419          Open; Makes in order a             N/A
                                  Reform Act.                              managers amendment as                
                                                                           the first order of                   
                                                                           business (10 min.);                  
                                                                           if adopted it is                     
                                                                           considered as base                   
                                                                           text; waives cl 7 of                 
                                                                           rule XVI against the                 
                                                                           managers amendment;                  
                                                                           Pre-printing gets                    
                                                                           priority; makes in                   
                                                                           order an Obestar en                  
                                                                           bloc amendment.                      
H.R. 2974......................  To amend the        H. Res. 421          Open; waives cl 7 of               N/A
                                  Violent Crime                            rule XIII against                    
                                  Control and Law                          consideration of the                 
                                  Enforcement Act                          bill; makes in order                 
                                  of 1994 to                               the Judiciary                        
                                  provide enhanced                         substitute printed in                
                                  penalties for                            the bill as original                 
                                  crimes against                           text; waives cl 7 of                 
                                  elderly and child                        rule XVI against the                 
                                  victims.                                 substitute; Pre-                     
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           priority.                            
H.R. 3120......................  To amend Title 18,  H. Res. 422          Open; waives cl 7 of               N/A
                                  United States                            rule XIII against                    
                                  Code, with                               consideration of the                 
                                  respect to                               bill; makes in order                 
                                  witness                                  the Judiciary                        
                                  retaliation,                             substitute printed in                
                                  witness tampering                        the bill as original                 
                                  and jury                                 text; waives cl 7 of                 
                                  tampering.                               rule XVI against the                 
                                                                           substitute; Pre-                     
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           priority.                            
H.R. 2406......................  The United States   H. Res. 426          Open; makes in order               N/A
                                  Housing Act of                           the committee                        
                                  1996.                                    substitute printed in                
                                                                           the bill as original                 
                                                                           text; waives cl 5(a)                 
                                                                           of rule XXI against                  
                                                                           the substitute; makes                
                                                                           in order a managers                  
                                                                           amendment as the                     
                                                                           first order of                       
                                                                           business (10 min); if                
                                                                           adopted it is                        
                                                                           considered as base                   
                                                                           text; Pre-printing                   
                                                                           gets priority;                       
                                                                           provides a Senate                    
                                                                           hook-up.                             
H.R. 3322......................  Omnibus Civilian    H. Res. 427          Open; waives cl                    N/A
                                  Science                                  2(l)(2) of rule XI                   
                                  Authorization Act                        against the bill's                   
                                  of 1996.                                 consideration; makes                 
                                                                           in order a managers                  
                                                                           amendment as the                     
                                                                           first order of                       
                                                                           business (10 min); if                
                                                                           adopted it is                        
                                                                           considered as base                   
                                                                           text; waives cl 5(a)                 
                                                                           of rule XXI against                  
                                                                           the bill; pre-                       
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           priority.                            
H.R. 3286......................  The Adoption        H. Res. 428          Restrictive; provides   ..............
                                  Promotion and                            consideration of the                 
                                  Stability Act of                         bill in the House;                   
                                  1996.                                    makes in order the                   
                                                                           Ways & Means                         
                                                                           substitute printed in                
                                                                           the bill as original                 
                                                                           text; makes in order                 
                                                                           a Gibbons amendment                  
                                                                           to title II (30 min)                 
                                                                           and a Young amendment                
                                                                           (30 min); provides                   
                                                                           one motion to                        
                                                                           recommit which may                   
                                                                           contain instructions                 
                                                                           only if offered by                   
                                                                           the Minority Leader                  
                                                                           or his designee.                     
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* Contract Bills, 67% restrictive; 33% open. ** All legislation 1st Session, 53% restrictive; 47% open. *** All 
  legislation 2d Session, 86% restrictive; 14% open. **** All legislation 104th Congress, 57% restrictive; 43%  
  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. ****** PQ Indicates that previous question
  was ordered on the resolution. ******* 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.                                                      



             Legislation in the 104th Congress, 2d Session

       To date 13 out of 23, or 57 percent of the bills considered 
     under rules in the 2d session of the 104th Congress have been 
     considered under an irregular procedure which circumvents the 
     standard committee procedure. They have been brought to the 
     floor without any committee reporting them. They are as 
     follows:
       H.R. 1643, to authorize the extension of nondiscriminatory 
     treatment (MFN) to the products of Bulgaria.
       H.J. Res. 134, making continuing appropriations for fiscal 
     year 1996.
       H.R. 1358, conveyance of National Marine Fisheries Service 
     Laboratory at Gloucester, MA.
       H.R. 2924, the Social Security Guarantee Act.
       H.R. 3021, to guarantee the continuing full investment of 
     Social Security and other Federal funds in obligations of the 
     United States.
       H.R. 3019, a further downpayment toward a balanced budget.
       H.R. 2703, the Effective Death Penalty and Public Safety 
     Act of 1996.
       H.J. Res. 165, making further continuing appropriations for 
     fiscal year 1996.
       H.R. 125, the Crime Enforcement and Second Amendment 
     Restoration Act of 1996.
       H.R. 3136, the Contract With America Advancement Act of 
     1996.
       H.J. Res. 159, tax limitation constitutional amendment.
       H.R. 1675, National Wildlife Refuge Improvement Act of 
     1995.
       H.J. Res. 175, making further continuing appropriations for 
     fiscal year 1996.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  Mr. Speaker, I say to my colleagues, particularly on this side of the 
aisle, look what I have in my hand. It is the United States Department 
of State's April 1996, Patterns of Global Terrorism Report from 1 month 
ago. Let me read what it says.
  It says, ``Iran: Iran remains the premier state sponsor of 
international terrorism and is deeply involved in the planning and 
execution of terrorist acts, both by its own agents and by surrogate 
groups.'' Surrogate groups that were placed in Bosnia to do their dirty 
work.
  The report goes on to say, ``Iran gives varying degrees of assistance 
to an assortment of radical Islamic and secular groups. Iran continues 
to view the United States of America as its principal foreign 
adversary, supporting groups such as Hezbollah that pose a threat to 
United States citizens.''
  Mr. Speaker, that is what this is all about. To my colleagues who 
will attempt to defeat the previous question in order to force the 
Committee on International Relations to accomplish this same thing 
without the addition of one additional subcommittee, I say we cannot do 
that because on opening day a year and a half ago we cut one-third of 
the employees of this Congress. We have cut them out by one-third. We 
eliminated two subcommittees in the Committee on International 
Relations. They cannot do it without this amendment, without this 
report, without this resolution.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge Members to please defeat the previous question 
and let us get on with our business.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and I move the 
previous question on the resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Hansen). 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.

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  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, I object to the vote on the ground that a 
quorum is not present and make the point of order that a quorum is not 
present.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Evidently a quorum is not present.
  The Sergeant at Arms will notify absent Members.
  Pursuant to the provisions of clause 5 of rule XV, the Chair 
announces that he will reduce to a minimum of 5 minutes the period of 
time within which a vote by electronic device, if ordered, will be 
taken on the question of agreeing to the resolution.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 227, 
nays 187, not voting 19, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 150]

                               YEAS--227

     Allard
     Archer
     Armey
     Bachus
     Baker (CA)
     Baker (LA)
     Ballenger
     Barr
     Barrett (NE)
     Bartlett
     Barton
     Bass
     Bateman
     Bereuter
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bliley
     Blute
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bono
     Brownback
     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)
     Frelinghuysen
     Frisa
     Funderburk
     Gallegly
     Ganske
     Gekas
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Goodlatte
     Goodling
     Goss
     Graham
     Greenwood
     Gunderson
     Gutknecht
     Hancock
     Hansen
     Hastert
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Heineman
     Herger
     Hilleary
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Hoke
     Horn
     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
     Martinez
     Martini
     McCollum
     McCrery
     McDade
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McKeon
     Metcalf
     Meyers
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Moorhead
     Morella
     Myers
     Myrick
     Nethercutt
     Neumann
     Ney
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Oxley
     Packard
     Parker
     Paxon
     Petri
     Pombo
     Porter
     Portman
     Pryce
     Quillen
     Quinn
     Radanovich
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Roberts
     Rogers
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roukema
     Royce
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Saxton
     Scarborough
     Schaefer
     Schiff
     Seastrand
     Sensenbrenner
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Shuster
     Skeen
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Solomon
     Souder
     Spence
     Stearns
     Stockman
     Stump
     Talent
     Tate
     Taylor (NC)
     Thomas
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Torkildsen
     Upton
     Vucanovich
     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
     Baesler
     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 (IL)
     Collins (MI)
     Condit
     Conyers
     Costello
     Cramer
     Cummings
     Danner
     DeFazio
     DeLauro
     Dellums
     Deutsch
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Dixon
     Doggett
     Dooley
     Doyle
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Evans
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fazio
     Fields (LA)
     Filner
     Flake
     Foglietta
     Frank (MA)
     Frost
     Furse
     Gejdenson
     Gephardt
     Geren
     Gibbons
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green (TX)
     Gutierrez
     Hall (OH)
     Hall (TX)
     Hamilton
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Hefner
     Hilliard
     Hinchey
     Holden
     Hoyer
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jacobs
     Jefferson
     Johnson (SD)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnston
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kennedy (MA)
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kennelly
     Kildee
     Kleczka
     Klink
     LaFalce
     Lantos
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lincoln
     Lipinski
     Lofgren
     Lowey
     Luther
     Maloney
     Manton
     Markey
     Mascara
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McDermott
     McHale
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek
     Menendez
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (CA)
     Minge
     Mink
     Moakley
     Mollohan
     Moran
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     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Orton
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     Pastor
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     Pelosi
     Peterson (FL)
     Peterson (MN)
     Pickett
     Pomeroy
     Poshard
     Rahall
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     Reed
     Richardson
     Rivers
     Rose
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Sabo
     Sanders
     Sawyer
     Schroeder
     Schumer
     Scott
     Serrano
     Sisisky
     Skaggs
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Spratt
     Stark
     Stenholm
     Stokes
     Studds
     Stupak
     Tanner
     Taylor (MS)
     Tejeda
     Thompson
     Thornton
     Thurman
     Torres
     Torricelli
     Towns
     Traficant
     Velazquez
     Vento
     Volkmer
     Ward
     Waters
     Watt (NC)
     Waxman
     Williams
     Wise
     Wynn
     Yates

                             NOT VOTING--19

     Cox
     Coyne
     de la Garza
     Ford
     Greene (UT)
     Hayes
     Hostettler
     McIntosh
     Molinari
     Montgomery
     Owens
     Payne (VA)
     Riggs
     Roemer
     Roth
     Tauzin
     Visclosky
     Wilson
     Woolsey

                              {time}  1256

  The Clerk announced the following pair:
  On this vote:

       Mr. McIntosh for, with Mr. Roemer against.

  Mr. CRAMER changed his vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  So the previous question was ordered.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Hansen). 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 is a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 224, 
noes 187, not voting 22, as follows:

                             [Roll No 151]

                               AYES--224

     Allard
     Archer
     Armey
     Bachus
     Baker (CA)
     Baker (LA)
     Ballenger
     Barr
     Barrett (NE)
     Bartlett
     Barton
     Bass
     Bateman
     Bereuter
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bliley
     Blute
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bono
     Brownback
     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
     Doolittle
     Dornan
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Ehlers
     Ehrlich
     Emerson
     English
     Ensign
     Everett
     Ewing
     Fawell
     Fields (TX)
     Flanagan
     Foley
     Forbes
     Fowler
     Fox
     Franks (CT)
     Franks (NJ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Frisa
     Funderburk
     Gallegly
     Ganske
     Gekas
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Goodlatte
     Goodling
     Goss
     Graham
     Greenwood
     Gunderson
     Gutknecht
     Hall (TX)
     Hancock
     Hansen
     Hastert
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Heineman
     Herger
     Hilleary
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Hoke
     Horn
     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
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Lightfoot
     Linder
     Livingston
     LoBiondo
     Longley
     Lucas
     Manzullo
     Martinez
     Martini
     McCollum
     McCrery
     McDade
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McIntosh
     McKeon
     Metcalf
     Meyers
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Moorhead
     Morella
     Myers
     Myrick
     Nethercutt
     Neumann
     Ney
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Oxley
     Packard
     Parker
     Paxon
     Petri
     Pombo
     Porter
     Portman
     Quillen
     Radanovich
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Roberts
     Rogers
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roukema
     Royce
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Saxton
     Scarborough
     Schaefer
     Schiff
     Seastrand
     Sensenbrenner
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Shuster
     Skeen
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Solomon
     Souder
     Spence
     Stearns
     Stockman
     Stump
     Tate
     Taylor (MS)
     Taylor (NC)
     Thomas
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Torkildsen
     Upton
     Vucanovich
     Walker
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Watts (OK)
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     White
     Wicker
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Zeliff
     Zimmer

                               NOES--187

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Andrews
     Baesler
     Baldacci
     Barcia
     Barrett (WI)
     Becerra
     Beilenson

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     Bevill
     Bishop
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     Borski
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     Browder
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     Brown (OH)
     Bryant (TX)
     Cardin
     Chapman
     Clay
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     Clement
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     Farr
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     Fazio
     Fields (LA)
     Filner
     Flake
     Foglietta
     Frank (MA)
     Frost
     Furse
     Gejdenson
     Gephardt
     Geren
     Gibbons
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green (TX)
     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
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     Lipinski
     Lofgren
     Lowey
     Luther
     Maloney
     Manton
     Markey
     Mascara
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McDermott
     McHale
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek
     Menendez
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (CA)
     Minge
     Mink
     Moakley
     Mollohan
     Moran
     Murtha
     Nadler
     Neal
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Orton
     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
     Stark
     Stenholm
     Stokes
     Studds
     Stupak
     Tanner
     Tejeda
     Thompson
     Thornton
     Thurman
     Torres
     Torricelli
     Towns
     Traficant
     Velazquez
     Vento
     Volkmer
     Ward
     Waters
     Watt (NC)
     Waxman
     Williams
     Wise
     Woolsey
     Wynn
     Yates

                             NOT VOTING--22

     Cox
     Coyne
     de la Garza
     Dickey
     Ford
     Greene (UT)
     Hayes
     Hostettler
     Johnston
     Leach
     Molinari
     Montgomery
     Owens
     Pryce
     Quinn
     Riggs
     Roth
     Talent
     Tauzin
     Visclosky
     Whitfield
     Wilson

                              {time}  1305

  Mr. NEUMANN changed his vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  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.

                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mr. RIGGS. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 150, the previous question on 
House Resolution 416, and 151, adoption of House Resolution 416, I was 
unavoidably absent from the Capitol on personal family matters--a 
conference at my son's school. Had I been present, I would have voted 
``yes'' on both issues.

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