[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 67 (Tuesday, May 14, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D470-D471]
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                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Bills Introduced: 9 public bills, H.R. 3448-3456; and 2 resolutions, H. 
Res. 433-434, were introduced.
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Reports Filed: Reports were filed as follows:
  H.R. 2297, to codify without substantive change laws related to 
transportation and to improve the United States Code, amended (H. Rept. 
104-573); and
  H.R. 3376, to authorize major medical facility projects and major 
medical facility leases for the Department of Veterans Affairs for 
fiscal year 1997, amended (H. Rept. 104-574).
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Speaker Pro Tempore: Read a letter from the Speaker, wherein he 
designates Representative Foley to act as Speaker, pro tempore for 
today.
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Recess: House recessed at 1:14 p.m. and reconvened at 2 p.m. 
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Suspensions: House voted to suspend the rules and pass the following 
measures:
  Healthy Meals for Children: H.R. 2066, amended, to amend the National 
School Lunch Act to provide greater flexibility to Schools to meet the 
Dietary Guidelines for Americans under the school lunch and school 
breakfast programs;
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  Selma to Montgomery Trail: H.R. 1129, amended, to amend the National 
Trails Systems Act to designate the route from Selma to Montgomery as a 
National Historic Trail;
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  Goshute Indian Reservation: H.R. 2464, to amend Public Law 103-93 to 
provide additional lands within the State of Utah for the Goshute 
Indian Reservation;
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  Carbon Hill National Fish Hatchery: H.R. 2982, to direct the 
Secretary of the Interior to convey the Carbon Hill National Fish 
Hatchery to the State of Alabama;
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  Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation: H.R. 2967, amended, to extend the 
authorization of the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 
1978; and
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  Absentee Ballots: H.R. 3058, amended, to amend the Uniformed and 
Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to extend the period for receipt 
of absentee ballots.
  Pages H4921-22
Bills Re-referred: H.R. 3387, to designate the Southern Piedmont 
Conservation Research Center located at 1420 Experimental Station Road 
in Watkinsville, Georgia, as the ``J. Phil Campbell, Senior Natural 
Resource Conservation Center'', which was referred to the Committee on 
Resources, was re-referred to the Committee on Agriculture. 
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Amagansett National Wildlife Refuge: The House voted to suspend the 
rules and concur in the Senate amendment to H.R. 1836, to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to acquire property in the town of East 
Hampton, Suffolk County, New York, for inclusion in the Amagansett 
National Wildlife Refuge--clearing the measure for the President. 
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Water Resources Research: The Hose voted to suspend the rules and 
concur in the Senate amendment to H.R. 1743, to amend the Water 
Resources Research Act of 1984 to extend the authorizations of 
appropriations through fiscal year 2000--clearing the measure for the 
President.
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Personal Privilege; Representative Gunderson rose to a point of 
personal privilege and was recognized for one hour.
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Presidential Messages: Read the following messages from the President:
  Weapons of Mass Destruction: Message wherein he transmits his report 
on the national emergency declared by Executive Order No. 12938 of 
November 14, 1994, in response to the threat posed by the proliferation 
of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons (``weapons of mass 
destruction'') and of the means of delivering such weapons--referred to 
the Committee on International Relations and ordered printed (H. Doc. 
104-210); and
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  Budget and Impoundment Control Act: Message wherein he transmits his 
report on one revised deferral of budgetary resources, totaling $1.4 
billion, affecting the International Security Assistance program--
referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered printed (H. 
Doc. 104-211).
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Department of Defense Authorization: The House completed all general 
debate and began consideration of amendments to, H.R. 3230, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1997 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense and to prescribe military personnel 
strengths for fiscal year 1997. Consideration of amendments will resume 
on Wednesday, May 15.
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Agreed To:
  The Shays amendment that requires the President to seek increases in 
defense burden sharing by U.S. allies; provides authorities to the 
President to achieve

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increases in burden sharing by U.S. allies; and requires the DOD to 
report on progress made by increasing allied burden sharing an 
alternative forward deployment configurations that would meet alliance 
requirements or U.S. national security interests (agreed to by a 
recorded vote of 353 ayes to 62 noes, Roll No. 168).
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  The Spence en bloc amendment that increases funding for chemical 
weapons demilitarization research; authorizes additional $10 million 
for development of field emission flat panel technology for MI Tank 
Upgrade; requires competitive procedures for dual-use cost shared 
programs and mandates cooperative agreements when such shared programs 
are infeasible; clarifies language concerning development of an 
improved high altitude, low observable, unmanned aerial reconnaissance 
vehicle; provides that the President will certify to Congress whether 
or not the U.S. has the capability to prevent illegal importation of 
nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons; requires DOD to establish a 
natural resources assessment and training delivery system; provides DOD 
the authority to enter into cooperative agreements with State and local 
governmental agencies; clarifies Major Range and Test Facilities 
management constraints; allows a second opportunity to sign up for the 
mobilization Income Insurance Program for Guardsmen or Reservists; 
broadens military healthcare to include prostate and colon cancer 
screenings; codifies Congressional intent that the Monterey 
demonstration project was not to be delayed by regulatory requirements; 
permits transportation of health professionals engaged in the provision 
of humanitarian assistance; amends the foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
to include excess property of the Coast Guard; requires the Secretary 
of Defense to develop uniform procedures for possible forfeiture of 
retired pay of members or former members of the uniformed services who 
willfully remain outside the U.S. to avoid criminal prosecution or 
civil liability; calls for the Army and FEMA to implement site-specific 
Integrated Product and Process Teams as a management tool of the 
Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program; establishes a 
reporting requirement of all co-production deals between the U.S. and 
foreign countries; requires that violations of veterans' preferences in 
DOD hiring and promoting be treated as a prohibited personnel practice; 
sense of Congress calling on the President to impose the strongest 
sanctions available under U.S. law on Chinese companies involved in the 
export of military and industrial products, and sense of Congress 
regarding nuclear weapons proliferation and policies of the People's 
Republic of China; authorizes the transfer to the city of Vallejo, 
California of a nuclear submarine awaiting decommissioning in Pearl 
Harbor; allows the Secretary of Defense to evaluate equipment used in 
the 1996 Olympic Games to determine whether it would be appropriate for 
use in digital, audio, and visual global broadcasting; limits the White 
House Communications Agency to providing telecommunications support to 
the President; and provides confirmation that the authority granted to 
convey property at Ft. Sheridan in the fiscal year 1996 Military 
Construction Act be ongoing pending the environmental remediation 
expected to be completed in fiscal year 1997.
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Rejected:
  The DeLauro amendment that sought to reverse action taken last year 
which prohibited privately funded abortions for military women and 
dependents at overseas military hospitals (rejected by a recorded vote 
of 192 ayes to 225 noes, Roll No. 167).
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Late Report: Committee on the Budget received permission to have until 
midnight on Tuesday, May 14, to file a report on a concurrent 
resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1997. It was made in order 
that the House consider the concurrent resolution on Wednesday, May 15 
under the following terms: the Speaker may declare the House resolved 
into the Committee on the Whole House on the state of the Union for 
consideration of the concurrent resolution; the first reading of the 
concurrent resolution shall be dispensed with; all points of order 
against consideration of the concurrent resolution shall be waived; 
general debate shall be confined to the congressional budget and shall 
not exceed three hours (including one hour on the subject of economic 
goals and policies) equally divided and controlled by the chairman and 
ranking minority member of the Committee on the Budget; after general 
debate the Committee shall rise without motion; and no further 
consideration of the concurrent resolution shall be in order except 
pursuant to a subsequent order of the House.
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Referrals: One Senate-passed measure was referred to the appropriate 
House committees.
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Quorum Calls--Votes: Two recorded votes developed during the 
proceedings of the House today and appear on pages H5021-22 and H5026-
27. There were no quorum calls.
Adjournment: Met at 12:30 a.m. and adjourned at 11:36 p.m.