[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 124 (Wednesday, September 11, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D921-D922]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Bills Introduced: 16 public bills, H.R. 4046-4061; and 4 resolutions, 
H. Con. Res. 212, and H. Res. 518-520 were introduced.
  Page H10235
Reports Filed: No reports were filed today.
Speaker Pro Tempore. Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he 
designated Representative Hefley to act as Speaker pro tempore for 
today.
  Page H10175
Recess: The House recessed at 9:02 a.m. and reconvened at 12:00 noon. 
                                                   Pages H10175, H10179
Address by the Prime Minister of Ireland: The House and Senate met in a 
joint meeting to receive an address by His Excellency John Bruton, 
Prime Minister of Ireland. Prime Minister Bruton was escorted to and 
from the House Chamber by Senators Simpson, Cochran, Stevens, Mack, 
Daschle, Kennedy, Leahy, and Pell; and by Representatives Armey, DeLay, 
Boehner, Cox, Gilman, Blute, Franks of New Jersey, King, Lazio, Quinn, 
English, Flanagan, Kelly, Martini, Bonior, Kennelly, Hoyer, Montgomery, 
Markey, Kildee, Williams, Borski, Manton, McDermott, Neal, Moran, 
Maloney, and Kennedy of Rhode Island.
  Pages H10175-79
VA/HUD Appropriations: House disagreed with the Senate amendments to 
H.R. 3666, making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans 
Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent 
agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 1997 and agreed to a conference. Appointed as 
conferees, Representatives Lewis, DeLay, Vucanovich, Walsh, Hobson, 
Knollenberg, Frelinghuysen, Neumann, Livingston, Stokes, Mollohan, 
Chapman, Kaptur, and Obey.
  Pages H10182-89
  Agreed to the Stokes motion to instruct conferees that the managers 
on the part of the House be instructed to agree to the amendments of 
the Senate numbered 95, 117, and 118 (agreed to by a yea-and-nay vote 
of 392 yeas to 17 nays, Roll No. 407).
                                                        Pages H10182-89
Immigration in the National Interest: House disagreed with the Senate 
amendment to H.R. 2202; to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to 
improve deterrence of illegal immigration to the United States by 
increasing border patrol and investigative personnel, by increasing 
penalties for alien smuggling and for document fraud, by reforming 
exclusion and deportation law and procedures, by improving the 
verification system for eligibility for employment, and through other 
measures, to reform the legal immigration system and facilitate legal 
entries into the United States; and agreed to a conference. Appointed 
as conferees: Representatives Hyde, Smith of Texas, Gallegly, McCollum, 
Goodlatte, Bryant of Tennessee, Bono, Goodling, Cunningham, McKeon, 
Shaw, Conyers, Frank of Massachusetts, Berman, Bryant of Texas, 
Becerra, Martinez, Green of Texas, and Jacobs.
  Pages H10189-95
  Rejected the Conyers motion to instruct conferees that managers on 
the part of the House be instructed to recede to the provisions 
contained in section 105 relating to increased personnel levels for the 
Labor Department (rejected by a yea-and-nay vote of 181 yeas to 236 
nays, Roll No. 408).
                                                        Pages H10189-95
Suspensions: House voted to suspend the rules and pass the following 
measures which were debated on Tuesday, September 10:
  Monitoring the Student Right to Know and Campus Security Act: H. Res. 
470, expressing the sense of the Congress that the Department of 
Education should play a more active role in monitoring and enforcing 
compliance with the provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965 
related to campus crime (agreed to by a yea-and-nay vote of 413 yeas, 
Roll No. 409);
  Pages H10195-96
  Student Debt Reduction Act: H.R. 3863, amended, to amend the Higher 
Education Act of 1965 to permit lenders under the unsubsidized Federal 
Family Education Loan program to pay origination fees

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on behalf of borrowers (passed by a yea-and-nay vote of 414 yeas to 1 
nay, Roll no. 410) and;
  Pages H10196-97
  FAA Authorization: H.R. 3539, amended, to amend title 49 United 
States Code, to reauthorize programs of the Federal Aviation 
Administration (passed by a recorded vote of 398 ayes to 17 noes, Roll 
No. 411).
  Page H10197
Suspension Failed--Exports, Jobs, and Growth Act: By a yea-and-nay vote 
of 157 yeas to 260 nays, Roll No. 412, the House failed to suspend the 
rules and pass H.R. 3759, amended, to extend the authority of the 
Overseas Private Investment Corporation. This measure was debated on 
Tuesday, September 10.
  Pages H10197-98
Late Report: Conferees received permission to have until midnight 
tonight to file a conference report on H.R. 3816, making appropriations 
for Energy and Water Development for fiscal year 1997.
  Page H10198
Sonny Montgomery Medical Center: House passed S. 1669, to name the 
Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Jackson, Mississippi, 
as the ``G. V. (Sonny) Montgomery Department of Veterans Affairs 
Medical Center''--clearing the measure for the President.
  Page H10198
Referral: One Senate-passed measure, S. 1669, to establish areas of 
wilderness and recreation in the State of Oregon, was referred to the 
Committees on Resources, Agriculture, and Commerce.
  Page H10228
Senate Message: Message received from the Senate today appears on page 
H10179.
Quorum Calls--Votes: Five yea-and-nay votes and one recorded vote 
developed during the proceedings of the House today and appear on pages 
H10188-89, H10195, H10195-96, H10196-97, H10197, and H10197-98. There 
were no quorum calls.
Adjournment: Met at 9:00 a.m. and adjourned at 7:45 p.m.