[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 81 (Wednesday, June 11, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H3670-H3706]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
FOREIGN RELATIONS AUTHORIZATION ACT, FISCAL YEARS 1998 AND 1999
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 159 and rule
XXIII, the Chair declares the House in the Committee of the Whole House
on the State of the Union for the further consideration of the bill,
H.R. 1757.
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In the Committee of the Whole
Accordingly the House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole
House on the State of the Union for the further consideration of the
bill (H.R. 1757) to consolidate international affairs agencies, to
authorize appropriations for the Department of State and related
agencies for fiscal years 1998 and 1999, and for other purposes, with
Mr. Rogers (Chairman pro tempore) in the chair.
The Clerk read the title of the bill.
The CHAIRMAN pro tempore. When the Committee of the Whole rose on
Tuesday, June 10, 1997, the amendment offered by the gentleman from
Pennsylvania [Mr. Fox] had been disposed of.
Pursuant to the order of the House of that day, no further amendments
are in order except: The amendments en bloc by the gentleman from New
York [Mr. Gilman] pursuant to the order of the House of Thursday, June
5, 1997; and the amendment by the gentleman from South Carolina [Mr.
Sanford] regarding authorization levels.
Each amendment will be debatable under the 5-minute rule.
Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to strike the last
word.
The CHAIRMAN pro tempore. Without objection, the gentleman from New
York is recognized for 5 minutes.
There was no objection.
Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Chairman, this morning we are, as the Chair
indicated, resuming consideration of H.R. 1757, our foreign relations
authorization measure. We have a few amendments to consider today and
will be then prepared to move to final passage.
Through extensive deliberation, we have developed an en bloc
amendment that will merge the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency into
the State Department. This locks in the President's decision to
reorganize the foreign affairs agencies.
The first order of business will be a vote on the Rohrabacher
amendment to restrict aid to Russia because of missile deliveries to
China. Following that, we will take up the Sanford amendment to reduce
funding levels to fiscal 1997 levels. Finally, we will consider the
foreign affairs agencies consolidation, and then go on to final
passage.
In totality, this is a bipartisan bill and we hope to have the
support of our colleagues on the measure.
Announcement by the Chairman Pro Tempore
The CHAIRMAN pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 159,
proceedings will now resume on the amendment offered by the gentleman
from California [Mr. Rohrabacher], on which further proceedings were
postponed on Tuesday, June 10, 1997.
Amendment Offered by Mr. Rohrabacher
The CHAIRMAN pro tempore. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California
[Mr. Rohrabacher] on which further proceedings were postponed and on
which the noes prevailed by voice vote.
The Clerk will designate the amendment.
The text of the amendment is as follows:
Amendment offered by Mr. Rohrabacher:
At the end of the bill add the following (and conform the
table of contents accordingly):
DIVISION C--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SEC. 2001. ASSISTANCE FOR THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.
None of the funds made available to carry out chapter 11 of
part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2295
et seq.) for fiscal years 1998 and 1999 may be made available
for the Russian Federation if the Russian Federation, on or
after the date of the enactment of this Act, transfers an SS-
N-22 missile system to the People's Republic of China.
Recorded Vote
The CHAIRMAN pro tempore. A recorded vote has been demanded.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 225,
noes 190, not voting 19, as follows:
[Roll No. 178]
AYES--225
Abercrombie
Aderholt
Archer
Armey
Bachus
Baker
Barcia
Barr
Barrett (NE)
Barrett (WI)
Bartlett
Barton
Bilbray
Blunt
Bonilla
Bono
Boyd
Brady
Bryant
Bunning
Burr
Burton
Buyer
Callahan
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Canady
Cannon
Cardin
Castle
Chabot
Chambliss
Chenoweth
Christensen
Clement
Coble
Coburn
Collins
Combest
Condit
Cook
Cooksey
Costello
Cox
Cramer
Crapo
Cubin
Cunningham
Danner
Davis (VA)
Deal
DeFazio
DeLay
Diaz-Balart
Dickey
Doggett
Dreier
Duncan
Dunn
Ehlers
Emerson
English
Ensign
Everett
Fawell
Foley
Fowler
Fox
Franks (NJ)
Gallegly
Gibbons
Gilchrest
Gillmor
Goode
Goodlatte
Goodling
Gordon
Granger
Green
Greenwood
Gutknecht
Hall (TX)
Hansen
Hastert
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Hefley
Herger
Hill
Hilleary
Hinchey
Hobson
Hoekstra
Holden
Hostettler
Hulshof
Hunter
Hutchinson
Inglis
Istook
Jenkins
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Kaptur
Kasich
Kelly
Kim
Kingston
Kleczka
Klug
Largent
Latham
LaTourette
Lazio
Leach
Lewis (KY)
Lipinski
Livingston
LoBiondo
Lucas
Luther
Manzullo
Markey
Mascara
McCollum
McCrery
McHale
McHugh
McInnis
McIntosh
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinney
Meehan
Metcalf
Mica
Miller (CA)
Moran (KS)
Myrick
Neal
Nethercutt
Neumann
Ney
Northup
Norwood
Nussle
Packard
Pappas
Parker
Paul
Paxon
Pease
Pelosi
Peterson (MN)
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pickering
Pitts
Pombo
Portman
Poshard
Pryce (OH)
Quinn
Radanovich
Ramstad
Redmond
Riggs
Riley
Rivers
Rogan
Rogers
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Royce
Ryun
Salmon
Sanders
Sanford
Saxton
Scarborough
Schaefer, Dan
Schaffer, Bob
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shadegg
Shaw
Shays
Shimkus
Shuster
Skeen
Skelton
Smith, Linda
Snowbarger
Solomon
Souder
Spence
Stark
Stearns
Stump
Sununu
Talent
Tanner
Tauzin
Taylor (MS)
Thomas
Thornberry
Thune
Thurman
Tiahrt
Tierney
Traficant
Turner
Upton
Wamp
Watkins
Watts (OK)
Weldon (FL)
Weller
Whitfield
Wicker
Wolf
Wynn
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
NOES--190
Ackerman
Allen
Andrews
Baesler
Baldacci
Ballenger
Bass
Bateman
Becerra
Bentsen
Bereuter
Berman
Berry
Bilirakis
Bishop
Blagojevich
Bliley
Blumenauer
Boehlert
Bonior
Borski
Boswell
Boucher
Brown (CA)
Brown (FL)
Brown (OH)
Capps
Carson
Clay
Clayton
Clyburn
Conyers
Coyne
Cummings
Davis (FL)
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
Dellums
Deutsch
Dicks
Dingell
Dixon
Dooley
Doyle
Edwards
Ehrlich
Eshoo
Etheridge
Evans
Ewing
Fattah
Fazio
Filner
Foglietta
Ford
Frank (MA)
Frelinghuysen
Frost
Furse
Ganske
Gejdenson
Gekas
Gephardt
Gilman
Goss
Graham
Hall (OH)
Hamilton
Harman
Hastings (FL)
Hefner
Hilliard
Hinojosa
Hooley
Horn
Houghton
Hoyer
Hyde
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
John
Johnson (CT)
Johnson (WI)
Johnson, E.B.
Kanjorski
Kennedy (MA)
Kennedy (RI)
Kennelly
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kind (WI)
King (NY)
Klink
Knollenberg
Kolbe
Kucinich
LaFalce
LaHood
Lampson
Lantos
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lofgren
Lowey
Maloney (CT)
Maloney (NY)
Manton
Martinez
Matsui
McCarthy (MO)
McCarthy (NY)
McDade
McDermott
McGovern
Meek
Menendez
Millender-McDonald
Miller (FL)
Minge
Mink
Moakley
Moran (VA)
Morella
Murtha
Nadler
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Owens
Oxley
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor
Payne
Pickett
Pomeroy
Porter
Price (NC)
Rahall
Rangel
Regula
Reyes
Rodriguez
Roemer
Rothman
Roukema
Roybal-Allard
Rush
Sabo
Sanchez
Sandlin
Sawyer
Scott
Serrano
Sherman
Sisisky
Skaggs
Slaughter
Smith (MI)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (OR)
Smith, Adam
Snyder
Spratt
Stabenow
Stokes
Strickland
Stupak
Tauscher
Taylor (NC)
Thompson
Torres
Towns
Velazquez
Vento
Visclosky
Waters
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Watt (NC)
Waxman
Weldon (PA)
Wexler
Weygand
White
Wise
Woolsey
Yates
NOT VOTING--19
Boehner
Crane
Davis (IL)
Doolittle
Engel
Farr
Flake
Forbes
Gonzalez
Gutierrez
Linder
McNulty
Molinari
Mollohan
Schiff
Schumer
Smith (TX)
Stenholm
Walsh
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Messrs. FROST, EWING, and KNOLLENBERG changed their vote from ``aye''
to ``no.''
Messrs. PITTS, FOX of Pennsylvania, LATHAM, POSHARD, COSTELLO, HALL
of Texas, PACKARD, MORAN of Kansas, and SHAYS and Ms. RIVERS changed
their vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Amendment Offered by Mr. Sanford
Mr. SANFORD. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
The Clerk read as follows:
Amendment offered by Mr. Sanford:
At the end of the bill add the following (and conform the
table of contents accordingly):
DIVISION C--LIMITATION ON AMOUNT APPROPRIATED
SEC. 2001. LIMITATION ON AMOUNT APPROPRIATED.
Notwithstanding the specific authorizations of
appropriations in the preceding provisions of this Act (and
the amendments made by this Act), the aggregate amount
appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations
for each of the fiscal years 1998 and 1999 provided in this
Act (and the amendments made by this Act) may not exceed the
amount appropriated for fiscal year 1997 for the provisions
described in this Act (and the provisions of law amended by
this Act).
Mr. SANFORD (during the reading). Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous
consent that the amendment be considered as read and printed in the
Record.
The CHAIRMAN pro tempore (Mr. Rogers). Is there objection to the
request of the gentleman from South Carolina?
There was no objection.
Mr. SANFORD. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment here that would save
U.S. taxpayers $265 million in 1998 authorization, and it would save
them $265 million in 1999 authorization. That seems to me something
worth doing for a couple of different reasons.
First, it seems to me to be in line with what the taxpayers are
asking for. What taxpayers are consistently saying to me in my home
district is that if we are asked to do more with less, why cannot
Government do more with less? Individuals are asked to do more with
less, businesses are asked to do more with less.
What this amendment does is not to ask the State Department to do
more with less, but simply to do what they are doing with what they
have, because this is just a freeze, and I stress that word ``freeze,''
at 1997 levels.
Too, I think this is of interest and again an amendment worth passing
because I think it is what our children are looking for. Lawrence
Kotklikoff up at the University of Boston did a study on a thing called
generational accounting, and in this study they looked at the imputed
lifetime tax for a child born into America today; I mean for each of my
three young sons, Marshall 4, Landon, 3 and Bolton, 1, for each of
those children, the imputed lifetime tax is 84 percent. To me that is
unconscionable. That either means the equivalent of economic
enslavement or it means the end of the capitalistic system as we know
it, but in either case it means unpleasantness for each of my three
boys or any of our respective kids or grandkids. Here is a chance to
lower, in essence to lighten, the burden by $265 million off one
shoulder and $265 million off the other shoulder. That, to me, seems
worth doing.
The third reason that I think that this amendment again makes sense
is it is consistent with the math. What we talked about in committee
last year when we talked about merging two cold-war-era programs, U.S.
Information Agency and the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, both of
which were designed to counter Soviet influence, when we talked about
merging those two programs, we talked about billions of dollars worth
of savings. Yet if we look at the funding here, as we can see by the
bill, it goes up by $265 million. This is a chance to take advantage of
that savings that we talked about in committee.
A fourth reason that I think this makes a lot of sense is that it
reflects reality. If the Berlin Wall had not fallen in 1989, I would
not be offering this amendment. But the Berlin Wall did fall, and with
it many things changed. If our spending on diplomatic missions and
embassies and a whole host of other section 150-related expenditures
was to reflect that change, we would have seen a dramatic decrease. But
instead, funding has gone up from 1987 to 1994, it dipped slightly
after 1994, and now it is on the way back up. To me, that does not
reflect reality.
In fact, if we look at State Department funding, State Department
funding has in essence doubled from the early 1980's to present. Again,
I do not think that reflects the change that came with the fall of the
Berlin Wall.
Lastly, I would just mention that a whole host of groups, whether it
is Women for Tax Reform, Citizens Against Government Waste, the
National Taxpayers Union, Citizens for a Sound Economy, Americans for
Tax Reform or the Association of Concerned Taxpayers, think that this
amendment is in the best interest of the American taxpayer, and I would
urge its adoption.
Mr. MENENDEZ. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
(Mr. MENENDEZ asked and was given permission to revise and extend his
remarks.)
Mr. MENENDEZ. Mr. Chairman, I rise to oppose my colleague's
amendment, an amendment that I believe is shortsighted. Mr. Chairman,
foreign aid is not a frivolous expense of the United States tax dollar,
especially when it is in the form of funds to support the State
Department and our embassies abroad which serve to represent U.S.
political and economic interests overseas.
The men and women who work in our missions overseas are not living in
the lap of luxury. To the contrary, let me tell my colleagues, I was
recently in Angola where our embassy staff, American citizens, both
work and reside in trailer homes inside a heavily-guarded concrete
compound where electricity and water are often cut off. These
individuals live under these circumstances so that the United States
might have some impact with the new government of that country, and to
protect the millions of the many U.S. investments that exist in that
country.
Those of my colleagues who would find it politically expedient to
vote to cut foreign aid and operating expenses for our foreign service
agencies fail to understand that there clearly is a price for
leadership, and that price is far less, far less, than the cost of any
military engagement that we can avoid through our diplomatic efforts,
far less than a terrorist attack, far less than even a trade war in
terms of dollars and lives.
Although the cold war is over, America has to remain alert to new
threats, political instability, international terrorism, nuclear
proliferation, epidemic diseases. All of these are things that we face
in the context of this funding that we are trying to authorize.
Continued U.S. engagement in international organizations and through
unilateral and multilateral actions allow us to exert among our allies
and our foes to diminish the threats to our political and economic
security. Despite the rhetoric about the excesses of foreign policy
budget and foreign affairs, the fact of the matter is, we are talking
about 1 percent, 1 percent of the total Federal budget in contrast to
the defense budget, which is about 18 percent of this Federal budget.
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Despite what Members may have heard, annual expenditures for our
assistance abroad is quite small and provide a big bang for our buck.
In fact, many foreign assistance dollars never get abroad. Eighty
percent of U.S. aid contracts and grants go to U.S.-based organizations
and firms, and 95 percent of all food aid purchases, for those of the
Members who are farmers in the Midwest, are made in the United States,
95 percent of all of those purchases. Nearly all of our military
assistance is spent on U.S. goods and services for those who have the
suppliers in their districts who create these particular goods.
Those Members who are considering supporting this amendment should
consider this: Isolationism is a far greater
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threat to the U.S. economy and to American workers than the meager
expenditures that we are doing under this agreement. Even opponents of
foreign aid must agree that we have economic interests overseas,
including economic interests where people are employed here in the
United States by what we promote abroad. The Commerce Department
estimates that for every 1 billion dollars' worth of exports, we
generate over 20,000 U.S. jobs here at home. In that regard, U.S.
assistance to promote economic and political stability in developing
countries is very, very dramatic.
As we approach the 21st century, we have to understand, as Madeleine
Albright, our Secretary of State, has said, we cannot have foreign
policy on the cheap. I am talking about looking at the bottom line, our
interests here at home. Our interests here at home are fueled by the
meager expenditure we make in this regard in the context of our entire
budget.
In fact, being able to dictate what the new technologies are at
Geneva in the respective organizations that we are participating in;
promote U.S. interests abroad; promote the technological advancements
that we have set in this service economy, that we have the ability to
make a difference in; promote, as I just did in our trip to Africa and
South Africa the hundreds of millions of dollars of expenditures by the
pharmaceutical industry that are under threat because of a change in
South African law as it relates to that pharmaceutical industry, so
important to my State of New Jersey, we cannot be engaged in those
arguments if we do not have the proper representation at our embassies
abroad.
Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the requisite
number of words.
Mr. Chairman, I rise to oppose the amendment. I do so with some
reluctance. The gentleman from South Carolina [Mr. Sanford] is a
respected and valuable member of our committee. I know that he acts
from exactly the right motives in offering this amendment.
I would warmly support this amendment if some of the cuts came to the
multibillion dollar foreign aid accounts, of course, not the foreign
aid that goes to save children's lives or feed the hungry, but the
foreign aid that goes to international social engineering and sometimes
to prop up dictatorships. But let me remind Members that we have
already cut the major foreign aid provisions out of this bill. They are
not in the bill that is before this body.
Then let us look at the numbers. The total spending in this bill, and
this is the administration of foreign relations and refugee
protection--it is not foreign aid per se although there are some
provisions in it--the total spending in this bill is only 3.1 percent
over fiscal year 1997, which is approximately the rate of inflation.
There is no money in this bill to fund empire-building, no money for
big new programs or even expansion of old ones. The bill is already
substantially below the administration's budget request for fiscal year
1998, approximately $181 million below the administration's request.
That is also below the budget resolution, which all of us in this
committee have voted for, or at least most of us.
This bill saves money, as against the budget agreement. Again, we are
already on record as supporting that agreement. It is a Republican-
initiated, administration-backed agreement. We are below that, so
anyone who says we are exceeding that--yes, we are below last year's,
but we are well in line with the budget resolution.
Second, this bill means even greater savings in fiscal year 1999. If
we do not pass this bill, the administration will almost certainly
request and perhaps even get higher spending on the State Department
and related agencies in fiscal year 1999. This bill actually reduces
spending in that fiscal year.
Even more important, we have structured this bill so that the modest
increases do not primarily go to fund the Federal bureaucracy. Instead,
we enhance profreedom, prodemocracy initiatives such as refugee
protection, Radio Free Asia, and human rights programs such as the
scholarships for young people who have been forced to flee Tibet,
Burma, and East Timor.
Even though the Sanford amendment is not aimed specifically at
refugees or at Radio Free Asia, the aggregate cuts it imposes would
almost certainly result in cuts in these programs. Unfortunately, the
refugee account has already taken a cut in real dollars. The modest
funding for refugee protection is not even enough to cover the last
couple of years' worth of inflation. In real dollar terms, refugees
still take a substantial cut over 3 years. Let us not forget we are
awash in refugees. Some 26 million people are refugees throughout the
world.
Mr. Chairman, I have a letter that I have received from the
InterAction Committee on Refugee Assistance, a dozen organizations,
including the principal Catholic, Jewish, Lutheran, and Episcopalian
refugee assistance agencies, as well as other humanitarian and human
rights groups, which details what these groups call the alarming trend
toward reduction of resources for refugee protection overseas.
Mr. Chairman, at the proper time I will ask that that be made a part
of the Record so Members can see how these cuts, this slowing down of
refugee protection money, has hurt the Christian Karen refugees from
Thailand to Burma, has hurt people in Liberia and elsewhere, simply
because there is not enough money to protect these very vulnerable
people.
I also want to call attention to the effect that this amendment will
almost certainly have on the enhancement we voted for last week, on the
amendment that I offered to provide and to boost Radio Free Asia by $70
million. That was, and I want to repeat this as I did last week, an
initiative that Speaker Gingrich came up with; that rather than 8 hours
per day of broadcasting, Radio Free Asia ought to be bumped up to 24
hours a day into China, to send the message of freedom and hope to that
beleaguered country. This legislation boosts that from the $10 million
in the bill each fiscal year, $20 million total, by $70 million. Again,
that was an initiative that the Speaker suggested to us.
Mr. Chairman, I ask Members to vote down this amendment. I do so with
reluctance, because I so greatly respect the gentleman from South
Carolina [Mr. Sanford], but I think we have done a good job.
In my Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights, and
I know that the presiding chairman will look at this very carefully as
well, we have tried to hold the line on spending. It is a good bill.
Again, we are almost $200 million below the budget resolution so we
come in under that number.
Mr. Speaker, I insert the following for the Record:
American Council for
Voluntary International Action,
Washington, DC, April 9, 1997.
Hon. Benjamin Gilman,
Chair, House International Relations Committee, Washington,
DC.
Dear Chairman Gilman: As you work to develop State
Department authorization legislation for fiscal years 1998
and 1999, the undersigned agencies urge you to authorize at
least $700 million for Migration and Refugee Assistance
(MRA), and to work with the Appropriations Committee to
ensure that this amount is provided. The MRA account has
suffered funding reductions in recent years that seriously
jeopardizes the protection of refugees worldwide.
In addition, we urge you to increase the authorization
level for the Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance
account to $100 million. This life saving account is a no-
year appropriation that has been essential in providing
needed flexibility to the Administration to address emergency
needs such as the most recent refugee crisis in the Great
Lakes Region of Africa.
The authorized level for MRA is currently $671 million, and
this amount was appropriated for fiscal years 1994 through
1996. However, for FY 1997 the appropriation was reduced to
$650 million (which is the amount requested by the
Administration for FY 1998). In addition, Congressional
appropriators permitted $12 million of the FY 1997 MRA
funding to be used for the administrative expenses of the
State Department's Bureau for Populations, Refugees, and
Migration (PRM), thus reversing a prohibition on such use of
MRA funds that had existed for the previous two years (during
those two years, PRM administrative expenses were funded
through appropriations for Diplomatic and Consular
functions). The Administration again seeks $12 million for
this purpose in FY 98. The effect of this earmark is to
further reduce the amount available for direct assistance to
refugees. In real terms, this means that unless Congress acts
this time, there will be $33 million less available for
refugees in fiscal year 1998 as compared
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to 1996. This real reduction in resources for refugees
overseas is not acceptable.
Within the MRA account, the funding specified for overseas
assistance ($468 million in FY 1997) is used for
contributions to international organizations, primarily the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The
role of UNHCR in providing life-saving and other assistance
to refugees is critical to the protection goal of U.S.
refugee policy. For this reason, inadequate MRA funding has a
direct impact on the achievement of refugee protection.
examples of unmet refugee protection needs
In recent months, several alarming trends have been noted.
Among these is understaffing in UNHCR's protection division.
Site visits by many of our agencies to refugee situations
worldwide regularly find that UNHCR's protection corps is
dangerously understaffed, which exposes refugees to serious
risks and deprives UNHCR of the ability to fulfill its
primary task of protection. The results of inadequate
resources are seen in the following examples, provided
through site visits by our organizations:
A site visit to Uganda in Central Africa in 1996 found that
UNHCR did not have a single protection officer in northern
Uganda to monitor the grave protection needs of 200,000
Sudanese refugees there. More than 100 Sudanese were killed
in northern Uganda last year during rebel raids on refugee
settlements. Similarly, in West Africa UNHCR had a single
protection officer in the field to address the needs of
300,000 Liberian refugees in Ivory Coast. These refugees lack
proper identification cards and are vulnerable to harassment
and abuse by local soldiers as well as by combatants
infiltrating refugee sites from Liberia.
In Burundi some 70,000 Burundian refugees were to be
repatriated into potentially dangerous areas of the country,
UNHCR had to suspend its resettlement efforts in part because
it lacked the resources to monitor the safety of returnees.
Because of Burundi's dangerous highways, UNHCR needs an
expensive air capacity to monitor the safety of recent
returnees and gain an early warning capacity for new refugee
flows in inaccessible areas of the country.
The United States has advocated for elections in Liberia at
the earliest appropriate time, even though 750,000 Liberian
refugees--nearly one-fourth of the electorate--are out of the
country and potentially disenfranchised. In order to ensure
the credibility of any Liberian election, UNHCR may need to
bring the electoral process to Liberian refugees if
conditions remain too dangerous to bring refugees home to
Liberia to vote. It would be an expensive but important
undertaking.
In India, UNHCR has terminated assistance to many urban
refugees living in Delhi because of lack of funds. The
refugees, who live in dire circumstances even with UNHCR
assistance, have been despondent, saying that they have no
means to survive. One refugee killed herself after her
assistance was terminated.
In Nepal, border guards continue to hand over Tibetan
refugees to the Chinese authorities. UNHCR is only able to
visit the border occasionally, when a full-time presence
would be warranted. Also in Nepal, UNHCR has reduced the
level of assistance to Bhutanese refugees, despite the fact
that there are not prospects for their repatriation or local
integration.
unmet needs in the voluntary return of refugees
In addition, underfunding of UNHCR's core programs and
special initiatives prevents needed assistance to refugees,
thwarts efforts at repatriation, and in other ways undermines
the goals of the U.S. refugee program. The results of
inadequate resources are seen in the following examples,
provided through site visits by our organizations:
Landmines have become a more prevalent danger to
repatriation. The pending return of 300,000 refugees to
Angola is a case in point--Angola is estimated to contain as
many as 10 million landmines. A major coordinated effort with
international organizations is needed to address this
major impediment to safe repatriation. The threat of
landmines affects relief routes and repatriation routes,
and necessitates landmines awareness programs among
refugees. Removal of landmines is usually an expensive but
necessary component of reconstruction to facilitate the
voluntary return of refugees.
A massive repatriation of 300,000 refugees to Sierra Leone
under a fragile peace accord is being pursued. Yet UNHCR's
financial constraints have impeded efforts to place a
protection officer in the field outside the capital. Similar
constraints exists in Liberia as plans for a massive
repatriation effort from Ivory Coast and Guinea are being
considered. A site visit to Guinea in 1996 found that broken
delivery trucks were hampering food deliveries to 200,000
Liberian refugees over some of Africa's most difficult roads.
Lack of spare parts for truck repairs is a major problem. The
UNHCR had two field officers trying to meet the assistance
needs of 200,000 refugees. Some experts consider the
acceptable ration to be one field officer per 25,000
refugees.
One of the most promising young countries in Africa.
Eritrea, still waits the return home of up to 300,000
refugees. Their repatriation has been stalled for three
years, in part by the expense of conducting a repatriation
program that provides the level of support that returnees
will need in order to rebuild after decades of destruction
from civil war.
American agencies working on the ground in Bosnia continue
to report the lack of shelter, services, and economic
activity as a major deterrent to repatriation of refugees.
With the lifting of temporary protection for Bosnians in
Europe, there is a need for comprehensive durable solutions
to be found. These include voluntary return for most
refugees, who will need an infrastructure to be rebuilt in
their villages and towns. For others, it will involve
resettlement opportunities in third countries such as the
United States.
special needs of refugee children
UNHCR and other international organizations have recently
recognized that special efforts must be made with regard to
refugee children. Children constitute over 50% of UNHCR's
refugee caseload, and children separated from their parents
and normal care givers constitute one of the most vulnerable
refugee populations. These children need the assistance of
staff trained and equipped to deal with their legal, physical
and mental needs.
These services are particularly crucial in order to prevent
the recruitment of children as child soldiers, military
porters, prostitutes, and forced marriage partners. Refugees
families and communities must be assisted in helping their
children cope with the effects of physical and psychological
trauma and prolonged periods of insecurity and interrupted
family life.
With adequate funding and staffing. UNHCR can coordinate
with ICRC, UNICEF, nongovernmental organizations, and others
to engage in quick intervention, tracing, and reunification
programs. These coordinated efforts can help reunite children
with caring members of their families or former friends and
neighbors willing to help children preserve their language,
culture, and relationships with family and their communities.
Conflicts also produce families headed by children, who
need special attention to care for the needs of their younger
siblings while in exile and particularly on return to their
homelands, where they often lack necessary life and
vocational skills. Other children with special needs include
older teens who have spent years in exile or refugee camps;
demobilized child soldiers; victims of sexual abuse or
torture; and handicapped or landmine injured minors.
Only 30% of refugee children benefit from formal
educational programs, and often teachers and curriculum for
these programs are poor. Agencies are anxious to produce and
oversee better teaching training and to provide curriculum
materials that are educationally challenging and can help
children understand the importance of basic human rights and
democratic values. Such efforts will help these young
students contribute to the reconciliation of their
communities and the rebuilding of their societies.
The MRA account also provides funds for the admission of
refugees to the U.S. We wish to note in this regard that over
the past several years the Administration has drastically
reduced the ceiling for refugee admissions. The current
admissions level of 78,000, for example, represents a 13%
decrease from the FY96 ceiling of 90,000 which in turn was
about 20% lower than the FY95 figure of 112,000. This
decrease is clearly contrary to the will of Congress, as
expressed in last year's defeat of efforts in both the House
and Senate to statutorily cap the number of refugee
admissions. In addition, recent letters to the State
Department from Members in both chambers have urged that the
admissions ceiling be restored to between 90,000 and 100,000.
We thank you for your ongoing work on behalf of refugees
and other forced migrants, and we appreciate your
consideration of our views on this critical funding issue.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Ferris, Chair, Committee on Migration and
Refugee Affairs. Executive Director, Immigration &
Refugee Program, Church World Service. On behalf of the
following agencies: Tsehaye Teferra, Executive
Director, Ethiopian Community Development Council; C.
Richard Perkins, Director, Episcopal Migration
Ministries; Martin A. Wenick, Executive Director,
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society; Roger Winter, Executive
Director, Immigration & Refugee Services of America,
U.S. Committee for Refugees; Robert Devecchi,
President, International Rescue Committee; Ralston H.
Deffenbaugh, Jr., Executive Director, Lutheran
Immigration and Refugee Service; Le Xuan Khoa,
President, Southeast Asia Resource Action Center; John
Swenson, Director, U.S. Catholic Conference/Migration &
Refugee Services; Don Hammond, Vice President, World
Relief Corporation.
Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the requisite
number of words.
Mr. Chairman, I rise today to oppose the Sanford amendment, the
amendment of my colleague. Really, honestly, I would say to the
gentleman from South Carolina, I will say that he misconstrues foreign
aid and foreign assistance and what we do in the United States.
Further, the gentleman's amendment guts foreign affairs spending
levels
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that we agreed to last week in the budget resolution. Even more
important, I think the gentleman ignores the fact, and I heard him in
his comments say that we have increased our foreign affairs funding in
the last decade, when in fact the last 2 fiscal years we have reduced
our foreign affairs funding by 14 percent.
Let me put a human face on this. In January I went with a
congressional delegation, the largest one ever to leave the United
States to go to China, led by the gentleman from Arizona, Jim Kolbe.
Subsequent to that I went with the Speaker of the House again to China
in March.
In each instance it was extremely cold in China, particularly in
January. We met at our Embassy in China for what is referred to as a
country team briefing. That place was leaking and dilapidated. All I
can say to Ambassador Sasser and the people that are there is that it
must be exceedingly difficult to keep their morale up in just that
particular country alone.
I went home in March with a youngster that works at that Embassy who
lives in a facility that does not have hot water, did not have heat,
and his electricity is off more than it is on. The morale of people in
foreign services then, would, of course, be reduced if we find these
circumstances.
My colleague, the ranking member, just spoke about being in Angola. I
was with him in Angola just 2 weeks ago. When we got there, I do not
know whether the gentleman remembers, I would say to the gentleman from
New Jersey [Mr. Menendez], but we were told a body was found out on the
street the Sunday before we were there. The building next door to the
Embassy had been rafed with bullets. Here we have a dilapidated
structure, again, with our Ambassador living in it, with potable water
being a difficulty, that Ambassador having had malaria seven times, he
reported, in addition to others that I have heard that complaint about.
I have talked to the people in the Embassies, and their morale is
low. What the gentleman would do is cause that to be a problem.
Mr. SANFORD. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. I yield to the gentleman from South
Carolina.
Mr. SANFORD. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for yielding. Does
that mean, then, that the morale is very high, for instance, in
Argentina, where the Embassy is appraised at over $20 million?
Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. I cannot say that the morale is high in
Argentina, I do not know that. I can tell the gentleman about Angola
and about Zaire, the former Congo. I can tell the gentleman about the
Ukraine, where 25 percent of all of what the Embassy does is expedite
U.S. business problems.
That is where the gentleman is shortsighted, Mr. Chairman. The
gentleman is thinking that the money just goes out and the residual
does not leave an impact in the United States of America. It has a
tremendous impact, what Embassies do to help American businesses; but
even more important, American citizens. We cannot have people, either
in tourism or in business, all over the world and not have our
facilities to help them.
Mr. SANFORD. If the gentleman will continue to yield, Mr. Chairman, I
wholeheartedly agree that our Ambassador staff, our Embassy staffs
around the globe do a great job. What I am struggling with is the same
thing that the American taxpayer is struggling with. That is that many
of them live not in $200 million homes. I have a long list of
residences that are appraised at over $1 million.
Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Taking back my time, Mr. Chairman, that is
disingenuous. I do not know that Embassy, but I know the one in Prague,
in Paris, in England. Many of those buildings were purchased some time
ago, sometimes at almost crazy costs that they were sold for.
So surely American citizens do not live in $20 million homes, but
American citizens benefit by low-cost products, American citizens
benefit by safe and inhabitable environments that are sometimes
produced in circumstances where our Embassies and consulates, which we
have already cut immensely around the globe, have caused them to
benefit greatly.
That is where I think a part of the mistake is. It is as if we take
$16 billion and throw it, poof, up in the air and nothing comes back to
us. One whole lot comes back to this country. In Angola, I heard them
discussing how Chevron and how Texaco use our Embassy in helping them
to be expedited. I can tell the Members, safety and security is a vital
concern. The gentleman's measure would ignore that.
Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the requisite number of
words.
Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the amendment offered by my
colleague and I would say my friend, the gentleman from South Carolina
[Mr. Sanford], because he is a very thoughtful Member. However, I
disagree with him strongly on the issue of whether or not we should
make this kind of cut in our State Department authorization.
Mr. Chairman, it would be appropriate if the chairman of the
Committee of the Whole House, gentleman from Kentucky, who is also the
chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee that funds the State
Department, were down here speaking on this. I do not presume to speak
for him. But having worked with him for the last 10 years on this
issue, I think I have some understanding, as I know the gentleman has
an even greater understanding, of the needs in foreign policy.
I would like to focus on one reason that the gentleman from South
Carolina gave in support of his amendment. He gave as his fourth reason
that the amount of money we are spending in foreign policy does not
reflect the reality of the world since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
I would say it is exactly contrary to that. It is precisely because
of the fall of the Berlin Wall, it is precisely because of the end of
the cold war, that our requirements, our foreign policy
responsibilities, have grown apace. The United States still continues
to be the only country in the world that is a diplomatic superpower, a
military superpower, an economic superpower, and a political
superpower. That gives us, whether we like it or not, very substantial
responsibilities that we as a country must continue to discharge.
We know this is not a less dangerous world that we live in today
simply because of the end of the cold war. Indeed, we find that in many
regions of the world conflicts and problems that had heretofore been
kept under the surface by an overarching superpower conflict, have now
risen to the surface and pose potential dangers to the United States
and to the rest of the world.
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These are problems that pose potential dangers to the security of the
world and to peace in various regions of the world.
Not long ago I took a congressional delegation to China. I mention
that because during our visit we went to our Embassy in Beijing. One of
the things that this amendment would do would be to cut the funds that
are available for renovation and repair of Embassies. We are talking
about the U.S. mission in what is the largest country of the world from
a population standpoint, the third largest country of the world in
terms of its gross domestic product, its economy, and the country with
the largest trade deficit that the United States has.
In Beijing, our Embassy is woefully inadequate; it is desperately in
need of repair; it is leaking through the roof; it has inadequate
plumbing and inadequate electricity. Frankly, it does not enhance the
credibility of the United States, the largest country of the world, the
major power in that region, to be in such a woefully inadequate
facility. That sends a message that I believe is the wrong kind of
message.
But it is more than just the Embassy renovations we are talking about
in this proposed cut. What about the Embassy security? We have
Embassies all over the world that desperately need to be upgraded from
a security standpoint. We are committed to increasing the amount of
broadcasting in Radio Free Asia. We are committed to doing more, as the
gentleman from New Jersey said, in refugee protection; and an area that
I am concerned about, environmental protections along the United
States-Mexico border. Commitments that we made as part of the North
American Free-Trade Agreement would be substantially cut as a result of
this
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amendment. We would be cutting our efforts to try to establish an
Embassy in Jerusalem, our efforts to eliminate child labor all over the
world. These are just some of the issues that would be affected by this
cut.
The reality is, Mr. Chairman, that we have a funding need that is
driven in very large part by currency exchange rates. That is one of
the things the gentleman from South Carolina did not focus on when he
talked about the rising cost of the State Department. Frequently, the
cost is beyond our control. Currency exchange rates drive the amount of
money we have to spend overseas. It has nothing to do with the actual
dollars that we would be appropriating if all those dollars were being
spent here at home. But they're not. We have to pay our foreign
nationals in their currency. We have to buy food in that currency. We
have to pay for repairs in that currency. So we are driven by factors
that are often outside the control of the subcommittee, as the chairman
well knows, when we appropriate funds in our subcommittee.
I urge my colleagues to not support this amendment. It simply is not
the right time to be sending a signal to the rest of the world that we
are going to reduce our involvement, that we are going to reduce our
commitment to American foreign policy. I urge my colleagues to reject
this amendment.
Mr. BERMAN. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the requisite number of
words.
Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the amendment offered by the
gentleman from South Carolina. This is probably a fairly easy amendment
for the Members of this body to vote for. The political repercussions
of a ``yes'' vote in the short-term future would not be great, and one
could certainly find it very attractive to talk about cutting spending
and trimming back government.
But I would suggest that in terms of the long-term U.S. national
interest, this could be one of the most devastating votes that we could
make. We are at the point, in terms of our funding of our diplomatic
agencies, that we are getting to the point where the inadequacy of the
funding, the level of demoralization of the staff, the lack of ability
to deal with the rising cost stemming from terrorism and proliferation
and all of the other still existing threats to our national security
are going to render our diplomatic agencies unable to meet the
challenges that they face.
Just a couple of facts in terms of background. We spend less in our
international relations spending now than we spent in fiscal year 1985
in unadjusted dollars. In terms of just straight dollar amounts, we are
spending less now than we spent in 1985. The budget for the State
Department and other diplomatic agencies has already been cut in the
past 2 years by 14 percent.
This amendment violates the budget agreement, overrides the vast
majority of the Committee on International Relations in terms of the
appropriate level, removes the flexibility of the appropriators who are
dealing with a very difficult situation where three important agencies,
the Justice Department, the Commerce Department and the State
Department, are all within their budget, and puts an artificial lid on
one aspect of that, which makes their ability to make sensible priority
decisions much weaker.
It cuts the Embassy security. It limits our ability to build up Radio
Free Asia. It cuts refugee protection. It very much impacts in our
effort to develop a broader program for the Mexican-United States
border which would allow us to ensure that the very necessary
commercial relations, if it exists, are documented, that people have
the appropriate credentials and at the same time are not able to come
across the border illegally. There is no point to going any further
with these cuts.
Mr. SANFORD. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
Mr. BERMAN. I yield to the gentleman from South Carolina.
Mr. SANFORD. Mr. Chairman, could the gentleman show me any of those
cuts?
Mr. BERMAN. Could I show the gentleman the cuts?
Mr. SANFORD. Yes, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. BERMAN. The cuts in what the administration has requested in
terms of State Department funding?
Mr. SANFORD. Mr. Chairman, if the gentleman will continue to yield,
in other words, I would call a cut a cut from what we are spending
today. I think we both know this is simply a freeze at 1997 levels.
Mr. BERMAN. Mr. Chairman, we sit here and we decide, we want to build
the following Embassies. We want to institute the following new program
on the Mexican border. We want the diplomatic security bureau of the
Department of State to undertake the following new security measures.
We want more commercial attaches in the following Embassy. Then we put
on top of that a resolution which freezes the budget. The result of
that is a massive cut in other functions that was never anticipated, a
reduction in the ability to process passports and all the other basic
services that the State Department undertakes. You cannot engage in a
whole series of new initiatives and then freeze the budget without
expecting massive cuts in other areas.
Mr. SANFORD. Mr. Chairman, I suppose it would be a matter of
viewpoint on that. Again, in 1983 the State Department was funded with
$1.9 billion. Today it is funded with $3.97 billion. To me that would
not be a cut.
Mr. BERMAN. Mr. Chairman, fiscal year 1985, using that as the base,
we spent more money on the international relations budget in that year
than is being proposed by the President to spend this coming fiscal
year. This House has already cut the administration's budget in this
area by several hundred million dollars. This amendment would cut it by
an additional $200 to $300 million. I think that is a terrible mistake.
I urge that the amendment be defeated.
Mr. LEACH. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the requisite number of
words.
Mr. Chairman, let me say that I consider the gentleman who has
offered the amendment one of the Congress's most distinguished young
leaders. My concern, and I would like to extend a little bit beyond,
although in full agreement with the last speaker, Mr. Berman, as well
as the previous speaker, the gentleman from Arizona, Mr. Kolbe, relates
to the nature of the world. There are two things that I think this body
has to relevantly consider.
As the cold war has come to an end certain international issues are
more complicated. It is not just an ``us versus them'' circumstance. A
lot more sophistication is needed. We are also seeing a number of new
countries develop. Some of these new countries are former States of the
former Soviet Union. Some are former states of a split country, the
former Yugoslavia. Some are in other parts of the world.
But the point I would make is that if you want to give legitimacy to
these states, you have to recognize them in appropriate ways. That
means establish embassies in these countries; that means make it clear
that the United States of America legitimizes the state structure that
has come into being, which is in our enormous national interest.
Second, if in a very broad sense one can characterize the last half
century as being principally one of geopolitics, we all hope and there
is certain potential in the making that the next half century will be
largely about geoeconomics. In this contest I think an enormous case
can be made that to help American business we are going to have to have
not less representation abroad but significantly more, particularly in
the area of commercial activities and decentralized consulates.
When you have significant countries with regions that are the
equivalent manyfold of the average nation-state, it is very important
that the United States business community have an anchor in those
regions, whether it be the Shanghais or other cities within the new
China or whether they be part of the older countries of western Europe.
My sense is that we shortchange the Department of State at great risk
to the national security of the United States and also in a very
significant way to the future of American commerce.
The State Department has done a very poor job in contract with the
last century in projecting commerce as a signal mission. But I think in
the coming decades on this commercial component of American
representation abroad and the need to have structures to support the
commercial component are going to be increasingly important.
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So as easy as this amendment seems to be to vote for, I think the
membership ought to take great caution and support the budget
agreement, support the President, who is, after all, all of our
President when it comes to foreign policy, and support the leadership
of the committee.
Mr. CAPPS. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the requisite number of
words.
Mr. Chairman, I oppose the gentleman's amendment for many reasons,
but I wish to speak specifically on cutting off funds to upgrade our
facilities in China.
Mr. Chairman, I have been to China. I have been to the U.S. Embassy
in Beijing, as others who spoke before me have. I have witnessed the
deplorable conditions of the building in which Ambassador Sasser and
his very able staff do their work. Our quarters there, in my judgment,
are an embarrassment to this country. They need to be upgraded, and
this is not an excessive request. It simply has to do with doing what
is right so that we can do our work and maintain the morale of our
talented and well-trained representatives in Beijing and throughout the
world.
This is not the time to adopt an isolationist foreign policy. On the
contrary, the allocations for the State Department are justifiable, so
I oppose the amendment and I urge my colleagues to vote against it.
Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the requisite number of
words.
Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of the amendment offered by my
friend, the gentleman from South Carolina [Mr. Sanford]. For the first
time in recent memory, the Congress is moving away from its free-
spending ways. A balanced budget in the next 5 years is now a real
possibility. Tax breaks for working American families, albeit not large
enough tax breaks, I think we should go much larger than those that are
proposed at this time, but they appear to be in the offing. But we
could go much further.
The gentleman's amendment, similar to the one I voted for in
committee, is a fair one. It simply freezes spending authorization at
the level appropriated for fiscal year 1997. Freezes. It was not a cut,
although I would support a cut. It is a freeze. We are simply saying
that while we work toward a balanced budget, while we reduce taxes for
the overburdened American people who are just overtaxed, while we try
to move our own citizens off welfare rolls and into productive jobs,
that the State Department, the foreign aid bureaucracy and others learn
to live on the same allocation appropriated by this Congress for fiscal
year 1997.
Mr. Chairman, the gentleman from South Carolina [Mr. Sanford] in my
opinion offers a modest amendment, an amendment that will allow us to
proceed even faster to balancing the budget and to giving tax relief to
the American people. They are entitled to tax relief.
We keep hearing that we are drastically cutting back, that we are
slashing this and slashing that and cutting this. This is not a cut.
Some of us would agree to drastically and dramatically cutting, but
that is not what this is. This merely freezes last year's levels.
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American families go through this type of process, this
decisionmaking process, when they have to set priorities all the time.
They oftentimes freeze parts of their budget. This is what we ought to
do.
It is a modest proposal. We ought to support it. I know the gentleman
has already mentioned this early on, but we have had a lot of folks
against this amendment for a while. There are a lot of very significant
groups that favor this amendment, such as Women For Tax Reform,
Citizens Against Government Waste, the National Taxpayers Union,
Citizens For A Sound Economy, Americans For Tax Reform. These very pro-
taxpayer groups support this amendment.
I would strongly urge my colleagues to support this amendment.
Mr. SANFORD. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
Mr. CHABOT. I yield to the gentleman from South Carolina.
Mr. SANFORD. Mr. Chairman, there has been much talk about cuts, and
as my colleague just pointed out, this amendment does not cut, it
simply freezes. But with the conversations that have taken place, I
would have thought there would be leaking roofs, walls falling in.
I want to suggest two places, in addition to again this being a
freeze, where savings might come in. One, the State Department itself,
as of October 1995, had a list of over 100 properties for potential
sale valued at over $467 million. I want to say that again: $467
million. That would take care of, again, any of these shortfalls that
have been suggested.
The other thing is a lot of the spending that is proposed in this
bill, I mean, for instance, $178 million, we have to multiply these
numbers by two; but $178 million for the International Tropical Timber
Organization? How about $234,000 for the International Natural Rubber
Study Organization? Or how about $134,000 for the International
Hydrographic Organization? How about $203,000 for the International
Cotton Advisory Study Group? Or $51,000 for the International Copper
Study Group?
There are a host of places wherein we could come up with the savings
that would keep our embassies doing what they ought to be doing.
Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Chairman, reclaiming my time, I urge my colleagues to
support this very modest amendment. Many of us would be willing to go
much further than this, and really think we should cut. This does not
cut, it merely freezes at last year's levels.
Mr. WEXLER. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the requisite number of
words.
Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the amendment and would like to
speak to the aspect of the amendment that I believe cuts really close
to the American people. Oftentimes when this Congress speaks about
foreign affairs, many Americans do not perceive it as something that
touches their lives in any concrete fashion.
One aspect of this amendment, I think, cuts very close to the people
in my State, Florida, and in fact to the people of the United States.
That is, maybe it is mundane, but that is the ability of Americans to
obtain their passports and their visas in a timely manner.
In my community, if individuals need to get a passport in a fast
fashion, they are likely to stand in line for 3 hours, 4 hours, 5
hours, sometimes over a couple of days. If there is an emergency, if
there is a business need, a family need, oftentimes it will be very
difficult to accomplish that purpose of getting a visa or a passport in
a quick fashion.
When this Government was shut down a year and a half ago,
extraordinary havoc was created throughout Florida, and I can only
imagine throughout the Nation, in the private sector by business people
who could not conduct their business.
Now, in fairness, this amendment does not shut down Government, but
what it does is it reduces the amount of opportunity, the ability of
the State Department to improve their services with respect to
Americans obtaining their passports and visas.
The sponsor of the amendment very eloquently spoke of his three
little children and the tax burden that they will incur as they grow
up. Well, I too, have three little children, but I would respectfully
suggest that the manner in which all of America's children will have
the ability to pay for our Government in the 21st century and pay for
our obligations to our veterans and our senior citizens and our
military forces and the obligation of what we call the American way of
life, the manner in which we do that is not to stick our head in the
sand and pretend that our opportunities cease at our borders; rather, I
believe, it is common sense that the manner in which America's children
will have the opportunities in the 21st century to pay for the kind of
society we want is to increase our opportunities.
Increasing opportunities overseas means to have a very valid presence
overseas. The way in which we increase our economic opportunities, our
ability to travel, our ability to trade, our ability to make certain
that there is peace rather than conflict is not by cutting money in
today's budget, in today's bill, which has already been cut from the
President's budget proposal; but rather it is to keep it where the
President ultimately wanted.
To do otherwise, I believe, would be to defeat the exact purpose that
the
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sponsor of the amendment seeks, and that is to make there be less of a
burden on today's children for tomorrow.
Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the requisite number of
words.
Mr. Chairman, I wanted to rise in strong support of the Sanford
amendment to reduce this bill by $265 million, and I also wanted to
respond to some of the previous comments.
We have been told that, if the Sanford amendment passes, America
would be sticking our heads in the sands and withdrawing from our
international responsibilities. Let me give my colleagues some numbers
here. This is $265 million, a lot of money, Mr. Chairman. However,
compare that with the overall amount of the bill, which is $6.3
billion. In addition, later on this year we will pass a foreign aid
bill which will be approximately $12 billion, or somewhere thereabout.
In addition to that, we will be spending around $260 billion on
defense. Those are huge numbers.
Mr. Chairman, if I had long hair, this amendment is not even clipping
off an inch or two of my long hair. What it does is it plucks out a few
of the hairs out of my head. I will still have plenty of hair in my
head with or without the Sanford amendment. But I would suggest and
recommend strongly that we do have to clip, we do have to trim, because
we are over $5 trillion in debt. That is what this is about. This is
about trying to make the future good for our children by not enslaving
them year after year from deficit spending and increasing the debt.
I want to give my colleagues three areas where we could find savings
in this bill. No. 1, we spend hours, and we have already had two or
three amendments on the United Nations. One of them talked about
pulling America out of the United Nations, another asked for a study so
they could find better ways to restructure. Yet, with this bill, we are
increasing support for international organizations $68 million. That
seems a little odd when we have so many Members who want to actually
cut out spending.
We have heard that this amendment will cause a lot of the overseas
real estate to go in disrepair and have roofs that leak. And yet, Mr.
Chairman, we have already passed the Bachus amendment that moved to
sell unnecessary real estate that should give us a 5-year savings of
$109 million. Now, that is rather odd, Mr. Chairman, when we are told
that this amendment would actually cripple our overseas real estate
investment, because the bill itself calls for an increase of $389
million for the next 2 years, each year, for new real estate.
What is it we are trying to do? On the one hand we are trying to
reduce, and on the other hand we are trying to expand. What this
amendment does is it forces us to get our priorities right.
What is the third area? One of the reasons why most Members are
ultimately going to support this bill is because it does consolidate
and eliminate two agencies, the Arms Control Disarmament Agency and the
U.S. Information Agency.
Now, as one who believes in smaller government, I am excited by this.
I think it is very important to consolidate and eliminate duplicative
agencies and commissions; and yet this, apparently, is not going to
save any money. So why are we doing it; for window decoration? If we
are not doing it for more efficiency, why are we doing it? And if we
are doing it for inefficiency, is it not true that it will save money?
Mr. Chairman, if we are truthful and sincere about our desire to
reduce the size of government and to consolidate and eliminate
unnecessary agencies, certainly we are doing that with the implied goal
of saving taxpayers' dollars.
The $265 million is a lot of money back in the First District of
Georgia, as I am sure it is in all 435 congressional districts; but in
terms of a bill that has a cost of over $6.3 billion, in terms of $260
billion in defense that we will be spending around the globe, in terms
of $12 billion in foreign aid we will be spending, this $265 million is
small and it is reasonable. But it is an important and symbolic first
step toward fiscal responsibility.
Mr. Chairman, I urge Members to pass the Sanford amendment.
Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the requisite number of
words.
My colleagues, when we were in the State senate, we had a
parliamentary provision in our rules that would allow us to divide the
question on any issue. And when we had an amendment that involved a
broad number of areas, we, as members of the State senate, could then
make a motion to the chair to divide the issue.
While I respect the sponsors of this amendment, and I think that they
are right in wanting to cut Federal Government spending and State
Department spending, for the Congress to micromanage to this extent is
wrong.
They ought to ask the question on individual amendments. They should
ask me if I want to cut Embassy security. Of course, I do not want to
cut Embassy security. Our Embassies need security. They need the
protection and the money that provides that protection. So maybe we
could extract this from the Sanford amendment, and maybe it would be
more palatable to me.
They could ask me if I want to cut freedom broadcasting to Cuba. No,
I do not want to cut freedom broadcasting to Cuba. So why do we not
extract this, Mr. Chairman, from this amendment, and then maybe it
would be more palatable to me.
Maybe we could say we want to cut environmental programs along the
gulf, the United States-Mexican border. I do not want to do that. There
are some parts of the gentleman's measure that I like, but this
micromanaging by the Congress is just wrong.
We cannot dictate to the administrative branch of Government
everything. We are going to give them an amount of money and we are
going to tell them to spend this money judiciously and spend it in such
a manner as it is not wasted. So while I respect the gentleman, and I
would like to be able to support the philosophy of what he is trying to
do, I think that this type of micromanagement is totally wrong.
Mr. SANFORD. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
Mr. CALLAHAN. I yield to the gentleman from South Carolina.
Mr. SANFORD. Mr. Chairman, I would say to the gentleman that my
understanding is that the Congress is in charge of the pursestrings of
this Nation and that, therefore, this is the kind of micromanaging the
taxpayers would expect of us.
Mr. CALLAHAN. Well, Mr. Chairman, reclaiming my time, I understand
what the gentleman is saying, but I do not think we can start dictating
to the administrative branch of Government, to the State Department
that they ought to have blue carpets in their Embassies; we should not
have an amendment that says no Embassy can be painted brown or pink.
We ought to recognize that the Constitution gives foreign policy
responsibility to the administrative branch of Government. We do hold
the pursestrings. I am chairman of the committee that appropriates the
money to the State Department for foreign policy, and the chairman here
today is the chairman of the committee that handles the State
Department affairs, such as most of these things address.
Mr. SANFORD. Mr. Chairman, if the gentleman would be so kind as to
continue to yield, the gentleman is precisely right, and that is why
this amendment does not attempt to micromanage where any of this money
should come from. All it does is freeze at 1997 levels.
Mr. CALLAHAN. I understand that, but, at the same time, this
committee, the Committee on International Relations, has gone through
hours and hours of hearings trying to draft a bill. Does the gentleman
think they do not care about the same things he cares about? Does the
gentleman think they just overlooked this or they are trying to give
the administration the ability to spend this money in a reckless
fashion? Of course they are not.
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Mr. SANFORD. I am on that committee and that is why I am offering it.
Mr. CALLAHAN. And my colleagues should have argued these points in
the committee where they have the time, where they have the ability,
even giving the administration the authority to come in and to tell
them what is wrong with these proposals. These feel-good, look-good
amendments are wrong.
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I think that it sounds good to be able to go back to our districts
and say, we introduced this resolution on this amendment to this bill
that was going to do these certain things. But in my opinion, and it is
in all respect, and certainly my colleague is in a position, being on
the Committee on International Relations, to have input, to talk to his
colleagues on the subcommittee and on the full Committee on
International Relations and to try to either put it in report language
or suggest that the sense of the Congress is this.
But for us to begin amending this bill, telling the administration
what they are going to spend their money on, what time of day the
ambassadors are going to get up, in my opinion, is absolutely wrong. So
I respectfully request that my colleagues recognize that we cannot
micromanage to this extent and that they vote against the Sanford
amendment.
Mr. MORAN of Virginia. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to this amendment. This amendment
is counterproductive, and, in fact, in many ways it is un-American,
because we are the world's leader economically, we are the world's
leader in terms of setting social trends, we are the world's leader in
terms of showing the wisdom and maturity that the rest of the world
expects from us and this amendment weakens our leadership capacity.
To cut the State Department is an implication that they are not doing
their job. But is not the proof in the pudding? Is not the proof of
whether they are doing their job the view that other countries have of
us, the extent to which they look to us for guidance, not just in terms
of military judgments but more importantly, in terms of the economic
judgments that open up markets for our free enterprise system and our
competitively priced products.
We are now in a global economy, a global economy in which the United
States has the major stake. In fact, the United States has the greatest
interest in this global economy because we have the most productive
capacity right now for what the rest of the world wants. We do not have
enough of a market within our country to maintain the economic growth
that we depend upon for our quality of life, so we need to expand
market opportunities around the world.
To do so, it will not be the U.S. Government that is going to be
investing the majority of resources, it is not U.S. Government
personnel who will be directly responsible for accomplishing this
national objective. It is the private sector. It is corporations, it is
individual entrepreneurs. But they desperately need people in foreign
countries, in our embassies that know the country, that can bail them
out of problems that they might encounter, that in fact will represent
our economic interests in a mature, in a responsible, and in a
professional manner.
That is the job of the State Department. They do it very well. They
do not do it as well as they should be able to do it today, because we
have cut 3,000 people already out of the State Department. If my
colleagues want to find out what the effect of that is, they do not
have to go to the families of State Department personnel who may have
lost their jobs or may have retired early, but go to the executives of
our corporations who are involved in international trade and they will
tell you they need more help in American embassies, they need more
consulates, they need a State Department that is growing at the pace
that our economy is growing, they need a State Department that realizes
the importance of the global economy and realizes the importance of
American leadership within international economies.
How counterproductive could we be to cripple this essential agency of
American interests, these committed professionals who are doing the job
that we depend upon? I just cannot imagine that Congress would go along
with this shortsighted view. But beyond the economic considerations,
think of the hundreds of thousands of young Americans who have died in
wars, some wars that could have been ended earlier, some wars that
never should have begun. We owe it to them to make sure that we avoid
that kind of bloodshed in the future, to make sure we avoid those
diplomatic failures, to make sure, in fact, that the 21st century is a
time of peace and prosperity.
And as important as the Defense Department is, it is not the Defense
Department that is going to achieve that goal to the extent that the
State Department will be able to achieve it if they have adequate
resources. Because knowledge leads to understanding, which leads to
respect, which leads to appreciation, which leads to friendship. And it
is that global friendship that serves our national interests and will
serve the interests of our children and our grandchildren who otherwise
may have to risk their lives because of failed diplomacy.
We cannot afford failed diplomacy. We cannot afford not to have the
professionals, the people who are dedicated to American ideals in other
countries around the world. Why we would cut the State Department more
after we have already cut it so badly is beyond me and I hope far
beyond the wisdom of this Congress.
So, Mr. Chairman, I would urge my colleagues in this body to support
the peace and prosperity that is a direct result of global economic
interpendency and vote ``no'' on the Sanford amendment--and to do so
overwhelmingly.
Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the requisite number of
words, and I oppose the amendment.
Mr. Chairman, I stand in opposition to the Sanford amendment. I want
to make several points about it. The first point is that the Sanford
amendment is not a cut in the foreign aid budget. There is virtually no
foreign aid money in the bill that we are now considering. It is a bill
that reauthorizes the State Department.
I know how attractive it is on this floor to support cuts in foreign
aid, but I want Members to be very clear that we are not voting here on
a foreign aid cut, we are voting with respect to a cut in the State
Department authorization bill. What that means is that the cut is aimed
at our diplomats and their ability to do their work abroad. That is the
first point.
Second, I think the amendment to cut the State Department
authorization bill has to be put in some context, and that context
simply is that we have had too many cuts already in the so-called 150,
or international, account. The international affairs budget has been
cut by 30 percent, 37 percent in real terms, since 1986; and as has
been mentioned on the floor, in the past 2 years, the funding has been
cut by 14 percent.
Now, all of our professional diplomats that I am acquainted with, and
I am going to cite some personally in just a moment, believe that these
cuts have now begun to harm our ability to conduct foreign policy in a
lot of different ways. They cut the diplomatic infrastructure that is
crumbling due to funding cuts, which have prevented us from modernizing
and maintaining our buildings, making it very difficult for our
diplomats to do their exceedingly important work.
It has become increasingly hard to maintain the level of consular
services American people deserve overseas. And I suspect there are very
few congressional offices that do not deal on a daily basis with
demands for consular service from our diplomats. And we have
accumulated more than $1 billion in arrears to international
organizations, and that undermines our ability to lead in the world and
impedes our ability to get multilateral institutions to follow our aid.
The point, simply, is that I do not think that the Sanford amendment
can be taken in isolation, it has to be seen in the context of very
sharp cuts in the international account over a period of a good many
years.
The third point to make is, and this goes directly to the amendment,
is I simply think that the State Department cuts that are proposed by
the Sanford amendment are much too deep. The bill when it came to the
floor already cut the President's request by $200 million. We have
adopted on this floor additional cuts of roughly $136 million; and
along comes Sanford, which is a $225 million cut.
If we add all of this up together, what we are doing is we are
cutting about half a billion dollars from the President's request. So
this is not just a freeze. I know the gentleman from South Carolina
[Mr. Sanford] intends this to be a freeze. And if we look at his
amendment itself, that is what he
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is seeking to do, to freeze the level of spending. But if we put it
into the context of cuts that have already been adopted on the floor
and cuts adopted in the committee, then we have got a very, very
substantial whack here out of the President's request.
Now, I must say that I think we have to pay some attention to our top
diplomats here. They are the ones who we put out on the front line to
try to carry the burden of conducting American foreign policy abroad.
What is striking here is that every single one of them in recent years,
Republican or Democrat, has said to us that we need to maintain the
State Department account.
The chairman has a letter signed by Henry Kissinger and George Shultz
and Alexander Haig and James Baker and Lawrence Eagleberger and Gen.
Colin Powell and Brent Scowcroft. All of those served with great
distinction in the Republican administrations, and all of them believe
that we have to maintain the level of funding that was reported in the
committee bill.
I know that committee bill is not before us, but they want that level
of funding and that means they would be in opposition to the Sanford
amendment. Add to those names the present Secretary of State, who has
been extremely forceful in urging that this 150 account not be cut, add
to those names her predecessor, Warren Christopher, and what you have
is every single Secretary of State in the past dozens of years, in
addition to some of the national security advisers, all urging us to
maintain this level of funding, not to freeze it, not to cut it half a
billion dollars.
So I would urge my colleagues here to pay respect to our professional
Secretaries of State who have urged adequate funding, and to oppose the
Sanford amendment, which not only does it cut but it also undermines
the budget agreement which we adopted on this floor just days ago by an
overwhelming vote. I urge a vote in opposition to the Sanford
amendment.
Mr. TAYLOR of North Carolina. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last
word.
Mr. Chairman, I abhor excessive Government spending as much as anyone
and, as a member of the Committee on Appropriations, try to take that
position. I also support many of the things that my good friend, the
gentleman from South Carolina [Mr. Sanford] supports. I think his
outreach to cut spending in all areas of Government is certainly
prudent. I cannot defend the State Department on every expenditure or
everything it does. I have watched it do many foolish things over the
years, as we have all in this body. But I have to oppose this amendment
because it is the wrong amendment in the wrong place.
This authorization bill will go to the Appropriations Subcommittee. I
would advise and invite my colleague, as a member of that subcommittee,
to come in and let us look at areas where there might be savings, where
there might be opportunities to cut waste, and then deliberately take
those one piece at a time if clear explanations are not there for the
expenditures.
But to arbitrarily cut this much money from the State Department's
budget at this time would do exactly what the gentleman from New York
[Mr. Gilman] has indicated and said clearly it would do. It would
create cuts in our security at embassies. It could cut vital expansions
of embassies in areas, for instance, such as Russia; badly in Russia.
We need a country with 11 time zones, a country with an enormous amount
of work to do to the projected market system, to convince them to
continue along the ways of the market system and freedom. We need to be
putting more and more information and communication there.
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We need to have availability for their members, for their citizens to
be able to come to the United States for both business opportunities as
well as educational opportunities. We need to have opportunities for
our citizens to travel in Russia. That is just one part of the world
that is changing dramatically where we need more communication, where
we need more representation rather than less.
As we try to project our message through Radio Free Asia or the
broadcasting to Cuba or any of the other areas where we are trying to
project our point of view, as we try to expand services for the new
countries that have been under totalitarian control and are now
allowing their citizens to travel and to come out and see what is
happening in the free world, we need to be expanding our efforts in
these areas. There are opportunities to save, but across-the-board cuts
such as this would not be beneficial to any of the efforts for freedom
in this country.
Mr. SANFORD. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
Mr. TAYLOR of North Carolina. I yield to the gentleman from South
Carolina.
Mr. SANFORD. My only question for the gentleman would be, does he
think that there might be 3 percent or just shy of 3 percent of waste
within the State Department?
Mr. TAYLOR of North Carolina. It would be difficult without reviewing
the entire bill to see. It may be, more than a cut, it may be a shift
in resources might be needed more than a cut itself.
Mr. SANFORD. This amendment would leave it up to you all basically to
decide on how those resources might shift. All it does is freeze and
prevent in essence a 3-percent increase.
Mr. TAYLOR of North Carolina. It would mandate, though, if the need
were there, it would restrict us in a way that we would not have the
freedom of making that decision. If it was not a question of shifting
or if we needed more resources in areas as we mentioned a moment ago,
either to project our message across the world or to increase our
representation in countries such as Russia, it would limit us from
doing that.
I would urge, rather than a broad cut, come sit with us in the
meetings and work toward seeing which areas could be changed, rather
than locking the hands of the appropriators and the authorizers, for
that matter, in any further deliberation by a direct freeze at this
time.
Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the requisite number of
words.
(Mr. GILMAN asked and was given permission to revise and extend his
remarks.)
Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Chairman, I rise in reluctant opposition to the
amendment proposed by the gentleman from South Carolina [Mr. Sanford]
who is a distinguished member of our Committee on International
Relations.
Mr. Chairman, the funding in this bill is already below the levels
set by the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Kasich] in the budget adopted by
this House. The Sanford amendment would result in cuts to a number of
key programs, such as cuts in Embassy security and Embassy renovations.
It would cut Radio Free Asia which the Speaker has strongly supported.
It would cut freedom broadcasting to Cuba, and refugee protection. It
would result in cuts to human rights programs for the oppressed people
in Tibet, in Burma, and East Timor. Also affected by the cuts in the
Sanford proposal would be United States-Mexico border environmental
programs, the United States Embassy construction in Jerusalem, and
programs to end child labor abuses. The Sanford amendment will cut all
of these programs.
I reiterate, funding on this bill is below the Kasich budget
resolution. This bill is part of a plan to balance the budget. Our
budget chairman, the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Kasich], supports the
bill in its current form. I will also note that the gentleman from
Louisiana [Mr. Livingston], the distinguished chairman of the Committee
on Appropriations, the gentleman from Kentucky [Mr. Rogers], the
distinguished chairman of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State,
and Judiciary of the Committee on Appropriations, the gentleman from
Alabama [Mr. Callahan], the distinguished chairman of the Subcommittee
on Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs of the
Committee on Appropriations, are all united in opposition to the
Sanford amendment. This amendment breaks the budget deal negotiated by
the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Kasich] which is strongly backed by the
leadership.
Accordingly, Mr. Chairman, I urge our colleagues to defeat the
Sanford amendment.
The CHAIRMAN pro tempore (Mr. Rogers). The question is on the
amendment offered by the gentleman from South Carolina [Mr. Sanford].
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The question was taken; and the Chairman pro tempore announced that
the noes appeared to have it.
Recorded Vote
Mr. SANFORD. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 163,
noes 261, not voting 10, as follows:
[Roll No. 179]
AYES--163
Aderholt
Andrews
Archer
Armey
Bachus
Baker
Ballenger
Barr
Barrett (NE)
Bartlett
Barton
Bass
Bilirakis
Blunt
Boehner
Bono
Boswell
Brady
Bryant
Bunning
Burr
Burton
Camp
Campbell
Cannon
Castle
Chabot
Chambliss
Chenoweth
Christensen
Coble
Coburn
Collins
Combest
Condit
Cook
Cox
Cramer
Crane
Crapo
Cubin
Cunningham
Danner
Deal
DeFazio
DeLay
Dickey
Doggett
Doolittle
Dreier
Duncan
Emerson
English
Ensign
Everett
Foley
Fowler
Ganske
Gekas
Gibbons
Goode
Goodlatte
Goodling
Graham
Granger
Gutknecht
Hall (TX)
Hansen
Harman
Hastert
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Hefley
Herger
Hill
Hilleary
Hoekstra
Hostettler
Hulshof
Hunter
Hutchinson
Hyde
Inglis
Istook
Jenkins
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Kim
Kingston
Klug
Largent
Lewis (KY)
Lucas
Luther
Manzullo
McCarthy (MO)
McIntosh
McKeon
Mica
Miller (FL)
Moran (KS)
Myrick
Nethercutt
Neumann
Ney
Norwood
Nussle
Parker
Paul
Paxon
Pease
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pickering
Pombo
Portman
Pryce (OH)
Radanovich
Ramstad
Riggs
Riley
Roemer
Rogan
Rohrabacher
Royce
Ryun
Salmon
Sanford
Schaefer, Dan
Schaffer, Bob
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shadegg
Shaw
Shays
Shuster
Smith, Linda
Snowbarger
Solomon
Souder
Spence
Stearns
Stenholm
Stump
Sununu
Talent
Tanner
Tauzin
Taylor (MS)
Thornberry
Thune
Tiahrt
Traficant
Upton
Wamp
Watkins
Weldon (FL)
Weldon (PA)
White
Whitfield
Wicker
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
NOES--261
Abercrombie
Ackerman
Allen
Baesler
Baldacci
Barcia
Barrett (WI)
Bateman
Becerra
Bentsen
Bereuter
Berman
Berry
Bilbray
Bishop
Blagojevich
Bliley
Blumenauer
Boehlert
Bonilla
Bonior
Borski
Boucher
Boyd
Brown (CA)
Brown (FL)
Brown (OH)
Buyer
Callahan
Calvert
Canady
Capps
Cardin
Carson
Clay
Clayton
Clement
Clyburn
Conyers
Cooksey
Costello
Coyne
Cummings
Davis (FL)
Davis (IL)
Davis (VA)
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
Dellums
Deutsch
Diaz-Balart
Dicks
Dingell
Dixon
Dooley
Doyle
Dunn
Edwards
Ehlers
Ehrlich
Engel
Eshoo
Etheridge
Evans
Ewing
Fattah
Fawell
Fazio
Filner
Foglietta
Ford
Fox
Frank (MA)
Franks (NJ)
Frelinghuysen
Frost
Furse
Gallegly
Gejdenson
Gephardt
Gilchrest
Gillmor
Gilman
Gonzalez
Gordon
Goss
Green
Gutierrez
Hall (OH)
Hamilton
Hastings (FL)
Hefner
Hilliard
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hobson
Holden
Hooley
Horn
Houghton
Hoyer
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
John
Johnson (CT)
Johnson (WI)
Johnson, E. B.
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kasich
Kelly
Kennedy (MA)
Kennedy (RI)
Kennelly
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kind (WI)
King (NY)
Kleczka
Klink
Knollenberg
Kolbe
Kucinich
LaFalce
LaHood
Lampson
Lantos
Latham
LaTourette
Lazio
Leach
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Linder
Lipinski
Livingston
LoBiondo
Lofgren
Lowey
Maloney (CT)
Maloney (NY)
Manton
Markey
Martinez
Mascara
Matsui
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McCrery
McDade
McDermott
McGovern
McHale
McHugh
McInnis
McIntyre
McKinney
McNulty
Meehan
Meek
Menendez
Metcalf
Millender-McDonald
Miller (CA)
Minge
Mink
Moakley
Mollohan
Moran (VA)
Morella
Murtha
Nadler
Neal
Northup
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Owens
Oxley
Packard
Pallone
Pappas
Pascrell
Pastor
Payne
Pelosi
Peterson (MN)
Pickett
Pitts
Pomeroy
Porter
Poshard
Price (NC)
Quinn
Rahall
Rangel
Redmond
Regula
Reyes
Rivers
Rodriguez
Rogers
Ros-Lehtinen
Rothman
Roukema
Roybal-Allard
Rush
Sabo
Sanchez
Sanders
Sandlin
Sawyer
Saxton
Schumer
Scott
Serrano
Sherman
Shimkus
Sisisky
Skaggs
Skeen
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (NJ)
Smith (OR)
Smith, Adam
Snyder
Spratt
Stabenow
Stark
Stokes
Strickland
Stupak
Tauscher
Taylor (NC)
Thomas
Thompson
Thurman
Tierney
Torres
Turner
Velazquez
Vento
Visclosky
Walsh
Waters
Watt (NC)
Watts (OK)
Waxman
Weller
Wexler
Weygand
Wise
Wolf
Woolsey
Wynn
Yates
NOT VOTING--10
Farr
Flake
Forbes
Greenwood
Molinari
Scarborough
Schiff
Smith (MI)
Smith (TX)
Towns
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Messrs. ALLEN, WELLER, and SHIMKUS, and Ms. SANCHEZ changed their
vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
Messrs. BURTON of Indiana, HYDE, and KIM changed their vote from
``no'' to ``aye.''
So the amendment was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Amendments En Bloc Offered by Mr. Gilman
Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Chairman, I offer amendments en bloc.
The CHAIRMAN pro tempore (Mr. Goodlatte). The Chair would inquire of
the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Hamilton] if he concurs in the offering
of this en bloc amendments?
Mr. HAMILTON. I do, Mr. Chairman.
The CHAIRMAN pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the amendments en
bloc.
The text of the amendments en bloc is as follows:
Amendments en bloc offered by Mr. Gilman:
Strike division A and insert the following (and amend the
table of contents accordingly):
DIVISION A--CONSOLIDATION AND REINVENTION OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AGENCIES
TITLE I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 101. SHORT TITLE.
This division may be cited as the ``Foreign Affairs
Agencies Consolidation and Reinvention Act of 1997''.
SEC. 102. CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS.
Congress makes the following findings:
(1) With the end of the Cold War, the international
challenges facing the United States have changed, but the
fundamental national interests of the United States have not.
The security, economic, and humanitarian interests of the
United States require continued American engagement in
international affairs. The leading role of the United States
in world affairs will be as important in the twenty-first
century as it has been in the twentieth.
(2) In this context, the United States has a historic
opportunity to continue the reinvention of the agencies
primarily responsible for implementing the Nation's foreign
policies.
(3) The United States budget deficit and the agreement to
come to a balanced budget over 5 years requires that the
foreign as well as the domestic programs and activities of
the United States be carefully reviewed. Wherever possible,
foreign programs and activities must be streamlined, managed
more efficiently, and adapted to the requirements of the
post-Cold War era.
(4) In order to streamline the foreign programs and
activities of the United States without jeopardizing United
States interests, strong and effective leadership will be
required. In order to promote this streamlining process, the
proliferation of foreign affairs agencies that occurred
during the Cold War must be reversed by reinventing,
streamlining, and reorganizing the foreign affairs structure
under the strengthened leadership of the Secretary of State.
(5) The continuing reinvention, streamlining, and
reorganization of the foreign affairs agencies, the
Department of State, the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency,
the United States Information Agency, the International
Development Cooperation Agency, and the United States Agency
for International Development, must ensure that these
agencies can effectively confront the new and pressing
challenges of the post-Cold War world.
(6) Any reinvention, streamlining, and reorganization of
the foreign affairs agencies must recognize the fact that
arms control and nonproliferation, sustainable development,
and public diplomacy are now more central than ever to the
success of the United States foreign policy. Any integration
of these agencies should preserve the unique skills and
capabilities of each of the agencies in a reinvented
Department of State.
(7) A reinvented, streamlined, reorganized, and more
flexible foreign affairs structure under the strengthened
leadership of the Secretary of State can more effectively
promote the international interests of the United States and
enhance the United States' ability to meet the growing
foreign policy challenges during the next century.
(8) The new foreign affairs structure should be one that
will maintain the quality of and strengthen the public
diplomacy and arms control functions now performed by the
United States Information Agency and the Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency.
SEC. 103. PURPOSES.
The purposes of this division are--
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(1) to provide for the streamlining and reinvention of the
Department of State to enable it better to incorporate
additional functions and agencies, manage new
responsibilities, make the Department more effective,
maximize the efficient use of resources, and make it better
able to defend American interests and promote American values
abroad;
(2) to consolidate and integrate certain agencies and
certain functions of other agencies of the United States into
the reinvented Department of State;
(3) to ensure that the United States maintains adequate
representation abroad within available budgetary resources;
(4) to ensure that programs critical to the promotion of
United States interests be maintained; and
(5) to strengthen--
(A) the coordination of United States foreign policy; and
(B) the leading role of the Secretary of State in the
formulation and articulation of United States foreign policy.
SEC. 104. DEFINITIONS.
The following terms have the following meanings for the
purposes of this division:
(1) The term ``ACDA'' means the United States Arms Control
and Disarmament Agency.
(2) The term ``agency'' means the Department of State, the
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the United States
Information Agency, the International Development Cooperation
Agency, and the Agency for International Development.
(3) The term ``AID'' means the Agency for International
Development.
(4) The term ``Department'' means the Department of State.
(5) The term ``officer'' is not limited by the meaning of
such term under section 2104 of title 5, United States Code.
(6) The term ``reorganization'' means integration,
transfer, consolidation, coordination, authorization, or
abolition.
(7) The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of State.
(8) The term ``USIA'' means the United States Information
Agency.
TITLE II--PLAN FOR CONSOLIDATING, STREAMLINING, AND REORGANIZING THE
FOREIGN AFFAIRS AGENCIES
SEC. 201. REORGANIZATION PLAN.
(a) Reorganization Authority.--
(1) In general.--No later than 60 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to the
Congress a reorganization plan for the foreign affairs
agencies specifying, in accordance with titles III through VI
of this division, the reorganization of the Department of
State, the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the United
States Information Agency, the International Development
Cooperation Agency, and the Agency for International
Development.
(2) Mandatory elements.--The plan shall provide for--
(A) the transfer of the whole or a part of agencies, or of
the whole or a part of the functions thereof, to the
jurisdiction and control of the Department of State; and
(B) the consolidation or coordination of the whole or a
part of agencies, or of the whole or a part of the functions
thereof, with the whole or a part of another agency or the
functions thereof.
(3) Discretionary elements.--The plan may provide for--
(A) the abolition of all or a part of the functions of an
agency, except that no enforcement function or statutory
program shall be abolished by the plan; and
(B) the consolidation or coordination of a part of an
agency or the functions thereof with another part of the same
agency or the functions thereof.
(b) Submission of Plan.--
(1) In general.--The President shall submit the
reorganization plan for the foreign affairs agencies under
subsection (a) to both Houses of Congress on the same day and
to each House while it is in session. If on the date that is
60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the plan
has not been submitted and either House is not in session,
the plan shall be submitted on the first day thereafter when
both Houses are in session.
(2) Information regarding implementation.--The message of
the President, submitted together with the reorganization
plan, shall include information regarding implementation of
the plan which shall--
(A) describe in detail--
(i) the actions necessary or planned to complete the
reorganization,
(ii) the anticipated nature and substance of any orders,
directives, and other administrative and operational actions
which are expected to be required for completing or
implementing the reorganization, and
(iii) any preliminary actions which have been taken in the
implementation process, and
(B) contain a projected timetable for completion of the
implementation process.
The President shall also provide such further background or
other information as the Congress may require for its
consideration of the plan.
(c) Amendment of Plan.--During the 60 calendar-day period
after the date on which the plan is submitted to the
Congress, the President may transmit to the Congress
amendments or modifications to the plan, consistent with this
division, which shall be considered as though submitted
together with the reorganization plan and shall not affect
any effective date or deadline under this division.
SEC. 202. CONTENTS OF REORGANIZATION PLAN.
(a) Contents.--A reorganization plan for the foreign
affairs agencies submitted under section 201 of this title--
(1) notwithstanding section 1 of the State Department Basic
Authorities Act of 1956, may provide for the appointment and
pay of one or more officers of any agency, including
appointment of additional Under Secretaries and Assistant
Secretaries (except that the total number may not exceed the
total number of officers previously authorized at Executive
Schedule levels III and IV of the agencies subject to this
division), if the President determines, and in the
President's message submitting the plan declares that, by
reason of a reorganization made by the plan, the provisions
are necessary;
(2) shall provide for the transfer or other disposition of
the records, property, and personnel affected by a
reorganization;
(3) shall provide for the transfer of such unexpended
balances of appropriations, and of other funds, available for
use in connection with a function or agency affected by a
reorganization, as the President considers necessary by
reason of the reorganization for use in connection with the
functions affected by the reorganization, or for the use of
the agency which shall have the functions after the
reorganization plan is effective; and
(4) shall provide for terminating the affairs of an agency
abolished.
(b) Transfers of Officials.--If the reorganization plan for
the foreign affairs agencies under section 201 contains
provisions pursuant to subsection (a)(1) of this section, an
individual holding office immediately prior to the abolition
or transfer of the office by this division who was appointed
to the office by the President, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, and who performs duties substantially
similar to the duties of an office proposed to be created
under such plan, may, in the discretion of the Secretary of
State, assume the duties of such new office, and shall not be
required to be reappointed by reason of the abolition or
transfer of the individual's previous office.
(c) Limitation on Transfers of Unexpended Balances.--The
reorganization plan for the foreign affairs agencies may
provide for the transfer of unexpended balances pursuant to
subsection (a)(3) only if such balances are used for the
purposes for which the appropriation was originally made or
for the purpose of reorganization.
SEC. 203. LIMITATION ON POWERS.
The reorganization plan for the foreign affairs agencies
submitted under this title may not provide for, and a
reorganization under this title may not have the effect of--
(1) creating a new executive department, renaming an
existing executive department, or abolishing or transferring
an executive department or all the functions thereof;
(2) authorizing an agency to exercise a function which is
not expressly authorized by law at the time the plan is
submitted to Congress; or
(3) creating a new agency which is not a component or part
of an existing agency.
SEC. 204. EFFECTIVE DATE AND PUBLICATION OF REORGANIZATION
PLAN FOR THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS AGENCIES.
(a) Effective Date.--A reorganization plan for the foreign
affairs agencies submitted pursuant to section 201 shall
become effective in accordance with titles III through VI of
this Division, on the effective date specified in each such
title with respect to the agency or agencies subject to each
such title.
(b) Publication.--A reorganization plan for the foreign
affairs agencies which is effective shall be printed (1) in
the Statutes at Large, and (2) in the Federal Register.
(c) Authority Prior to Effective Date.--Notwithstanding
subsection (a), the reorganization plan for the foreign
affairs agencies submitted pursuant to section 201 may
provide for the transfer of the whole or part of functions
prior to the effective dates established in titles II through
VI, including the transfer of personnel and funds associated
with such functions.
TITLE III--UNITED STATES ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT AGENCY
CHAPTER 1--GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 301. EFFECTIVE DATE.
This title, and the amendments made by this title, shall
take effect on the earlier of--
(1) October 1, 1998; or
(2) the date of abolition of the United States Arms Control
and Disarmament Agency pursuant to the reorganization plan
described in section 201.
CHAPTER 2--ABOLITION OF UNITED STATES ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT
AGENCY AND TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
SEC. 311. ABOLITION OF UNITED STATES ARMS CONTROL AND
DISARMAMENT AGENCY.
The United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency is
abolished.
SEC. 312. TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS TO SECRETARY OF STATE.
There are transferred to the Secretary of State all
functions of the Director of the United States Arms Control
and Disarmament Agency and all functions of the United States
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and any office or
component of such agency under any statute, reorganization
plan, Executive order, or other provision of law as of the
day before the effective date of this title, except as
otherwise provided in this division.
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SEC. 313. UNDER SECRETARY FOR ARMS CONTROL AND INTERNATIONAL
SECURITY.
(a) Establishment of Under Secretary for Arms Control and
International Security.--Section 1 of the State Department
Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2651a) is amended in
subsection (b)--
(1) by striking ``There'' and inserting the following:
``(1) In general.--There''; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
``(2) Under secretary for arms control and international
security.--There shall be in the Department of State, among
the Under Secretaries authorized by paragraph (1), an Under
Secretary for Arms Control and International Security who
shall, among other duties, assist the Secretary and the
Deputy Secretary in matters related to arms control and
international security policy.''.
(b) Participation in Meetings of National Security
Council.--Section 101 of the National Security Act of 1947
(50 U.S.C. 402) is amended by adding at the end the following
new subsection:
``(i) The Under Secretary for Arms Control and
International Security may, in the role of advisor to the
National Security Council on arms control, nonproliferation,
and disarmament matters, and subject to the direction of the
President, attend and participate in meetings of the National
Security Council.''.
SEC. 314. REPEAL RELATING TO INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR UNITED
STATES ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT AGENCY.
Section 50 of the Arms Control and Disarmament Act (22
U.S.C. 2593a), relating to the ACDA Inspector General, is
repealed.
CHAPTER 3--CONFORMING AMENDMENTS
SEC. 321. REFERENCES.
Any reference in any statute, reorganization plan,
Executive order, regulation, agreement, determination, or
other official document or proceeding to--
(1) the Director of the United States Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency, or any other officer or employee of the
United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, shall be
deemed to refer to the Secretary of State; and
(2) the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
shall be deemed to refer to the Department of State.
TITLE IV--UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY
CHAPTER 1--GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 401. EFFECTIVE DATE.
This title, and the amendments made by this title, shall
take effect on the earlier of--
(1) October 1, 1999; or
(2) the date of abolition of the United States Information
Agency pursuant to the reorganization plan described in
section 201.
CHAPTER 2--ABOLITION OF UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY AND TRANSFER
OF FUNCTIONS
SEC. 411. ABOLITION OF UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY.
The United States Information Agency is abolished.
SEC. 412. TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS.
(a) Transfer to Secretary of State.--There are transferred
to the Secretary of State all functions of the Director of
the United States Information Agency and all functions of the
United States Information Agency and any office or component
of such agency under any statute, reorganization plan,
Executive order, or other provision of law as of the day
before the effective date of this title, except as otherwise
provided in this division.
(b) Preserving the Independence of International
Broadcasting.--The Broadcasting Board of Governors and the
Director of the International Broadcasting Bureau shall
continue to have the responsibilities set forth in title III
of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994
and 1995 (22 U.S.C. 6201 et seq.), except that, as further
set forth in chapter 3 of this title, references in that Act
to the United States Information Agency shall be deemed to
refer to the Department of State, and references to the
Director of the United States Information Agency shall be
deemed to refer to the Secretary of the State.
SEC. 413. UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY.
Section 1(b) of the State Department Basic Authorities Act
of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2651a(b) is amended--
(1) by inserting ``(1) before ``There''; and
(2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
``(2) Under secretary for public diplomacy.--There shall be
in the Department of State, in addition to the Under
Secretaries authorized by paragraph (1), an Under Secretary
for Public Diplomacy who shall have responsibility, among
other duties, to assist the Secretary and the Deputy
Secretary in matters related to United States public
diplomacy policies and programs, including international
educational and cultural exchange programs, information, and
international broadcasting.
CHAPTER 3--CONFORMING AMENDMENTS
SEC. 421. REFERENCES IN LAW.
Any reference in any statute, reorganization plan,
Executive order, regulation, agreement, determination, or
other official document or proceeding to--
(1) the Director of the United States Information Agency or
the Director of the International Communication Agency shall
be deemed to refer to the Secretary of State; and
(2) the United States Information Agency, USIA, or the
International Communication Agency shall be deemed to refer
to the Department of State.
SEC. 422. APPLICATION OF CERTAIN LAWS.
(a) Application to Functions of Department of State.--
Section 501 of Public Law 80-402 section 202 of Public Law
95-426, and section 208 of Public Law 99-93 shall not apply
to public affairs and other information dissemination
functions of the Secretary of State as carried out prior to
any transfer of functions pursuant to this division.
(b) Application to Functions Transferred to Department of
State.--Section 501 of Public Law 80-402, section 202 of
Public Law 95-426, and section 208 of Public Law 99-93 shall
apply only to overseas public diplomacy programs of the
Director of the United States Information Agency as carried
out prior to any transfer of functions pursuant to this
division.
TITLE V--UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION AGENCY
CHAPTER 1--GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 501. EFFECTIVE DATE.
This title, and the amendments made by this title, shall
take effect on the earlier of--
(1) October 1, 1998; or
(2) the date of abolition of the United States
International Development Cooperation Agency pursuant to the
reorganization plan described in section 201.
CHAPTER 2--ABOLITION OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION AGENCY
AND TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
SEC. 511. ABOLITION OF UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION AGENCY.
(a) In General.--The United States International
Development Cooperation Agency is abolished.
(b) AID and OPIC.--Subsection (a) shall not be interpreted
to apply to the Agency for International Development (AID) or
the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC).
SEC. 512. TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS.
The reorganization plan submitted pursuant to section 201
shall provide for the transfer to another agency or agencies
of all functions of the Director of the United States
International Development Cooperation Agency and all
functions of the United States International Development
Cooperation Agency and any office or component of such
agencies under any statute, reorganization plan, Executive
order, or other provision of law before the effective date of
this title, except as otherwise provided in this division.
TITLE VI--AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER 1--GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 601. EFFECTIVE DATE.
This title, and the amendments made by this title, shall
take effect on the earlier of--
(1) October 1, 1999; or
(2) the date of reorganization of the Agency for
International Development pursuant to the reorganization plan
described in section 201.
CHAPTER 2--REORGANIZATION OF AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
SEC. 611. REORGANIZATION OF AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT.
(a) In General.--The Agency for International Development
shall be reorganized in accordance with this division and the
reorganization plan submitted pursuant to section 201.
(b) Authority of the Secretary of State.--The Agency for
International Development shall report to and be under the
direct authority and foreign policy guidance of the Secretary
of State.
(c) Functions To Be Transferred.--The reorganization of the
Agency for International Development shall provide, at a
minimum, for the transfer to and consolidation with the
Department of State of the following functions of the agency:
(1) Press office.
(2) Certain administrative functions.
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Strike section 1303 and insert the following:
SEC. 1303. PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT.
The official with primary responsibility for matters
relating to personnel in the Department of State, or that
person's principal deputy, shall have substantial
professional qualifications in the field of human resource
policy and management.
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Strike section 1304 and insert the following:
SEC. 1304. DIPLOMATIC SECRETARY.
Any Assistant Secretary with primary responsibility for
diplomatic security, or that person's principal deputy, shall
have substantial professional qualifications in the fields of
(1) management, and (2) Federal law enforcement,
intelligence, or security.
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Strike section 1306.
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Strike section 1707.
Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Chairman, I am pleased to offer this en bloc
amendment which represents a bipartisan agreement with the
administration on how to implement the contentious issue of
reorganizing and streamlining our Nation's foreign affairs agencies.
This bipartisan agreement is the result of lengthy hours of
negotiation, and I want to stress to my Republican colleagues that we
have not capitulated on any of the key issues of concern to all of us.
This bill still eliminates two agencies, and it does so under a strict
timetable that will not permit the abolition of agencies to be
indefinitely postponed.
Specifically, Mr. Chairman, this amendment mandates that the Arms
Control and Disarmament Agency and the International Development
Cooperation Agency will be abolished by no later than October 1, 1998.
It further mandates that the U.S. Information Agency will be abolished
and the Agency for International Development will be partially folded
into the State Department by no later than October 1, 1999. There is no
waiver, no escape clause, no smoke and mirrors. The agencies will be
abolished.
While the October 1 date we have agreed to is 45 days later in each
case than initially proposed, the 45 additional days for these agencies
is not too great a price to pay for what we have achieved. The critical
point is that the initial administration proposal on reorganization
provided for neither the mandatory abolition of agencies nor a definite
ending by which consolidation had to occur.
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The agreement we have reached is not only a good agreement, but it
will also enable us to move toward conference with solid, bipartisan
support for this bill.
Accordingly, Mr. Chairman, I urge all of my colleagues to fully
support this en bloc amendment.
Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
(Mr. HAMILTON asked and was given permission to revise and extend his
remarks.)
Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the amendment, en
bloc amendment offered by the gentleman from New York [Mr. Gilman],
chairman of the committee. I think it changes very dramatically the
underlying language of the bill on reorganization of U.S. foreign
affairs agencies. I certainly want to commend the chairman of the
committee and his staff and those in the State Department who worked
very assiduously in the last few days and hours to reach an agreement
on this amendment. All of them need to be complimented for their work
and their diligence and for the work product they have produced.
I think this amendment is now very close to the language of the
amendment I originally proposed a few days ago, which the
administration also supported. The key point is that this amendment now
permits the President to have the kind of flexibility he needs to get
the reorganization job done. I think the Chairman's amendment builds in
some tight deadlines and other requirements that helps to ensure that
the President will follow through on his commitments to reorganize in a
timely manner.
I believe, as I said earlier, that the President is entitled to
organize the executive branch as he sees fit without micromanagement
from the Congress. The President has made the commitment to consolidate
and to reorganize the foreign affairs agencies, and we need to make
sure he has the tools to carry out that commitment. This amendment
provides the President with those tools and allows Congress to focus
more on results, less on structure.
So I strongly urge the support and adoption of this amendment.
Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of the bill being managed by
the gentleman from New York [Mr. Gilman], my good friend, and by the
gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Hamilton]. I believe it is a good bill and
I believe this en bloc amendment is going to be a pretty good
amendment.
At the same time, Mr. Chairman, I want to take this opportunity to
address my colleagues and to address both the chairman and the ranking
member of the subcommittee. I support, for example, any increase in the
efficiency of government. However, someday I would like to take the
opportunity to call Bill Rehnquist of the Supreme Court and ask him to
come across the street and have a conference with Members of Congress
and give us a basic lesson in civics, and that is the Constitution
gives foreign policy to the administrative branch of government.
Mr. Chairman, I did not vote for Bill Clinton, but the American
people, the majority of them, did vote for him, and we elected him.
They elected him to lead foreign policy. For the Congress to continue
to try to micromanage the administrative branch of government to the
extent that they are telling them, as I mentioned earlier today, what
color to paint their embassies is absolutely wrong.
I know that this particular reorganizational effort that is in this
en bloc amendment has had a lot of hearing in the Committee on
International Relations, and I commend my colleagues for that. I know
that there has been a lot of compromise that has taken place in the
last few hours regarding some perfecting amendments to the amendment
offered by the gentleman from New York, and I applaud that.
But for us today to tell the administration how they are going to
reorganize I think is absolutely wrong. If we want to tell them to
reorganize, that is one thing. I understand that the amendment at this
point basically does that instead of telling them how to reorganize.
They have been talking about reorganization of USAID for the last
several months, or the last several years, and we have instructed and
pleaded with the administration to take heed. But for the Congress to
micromanage to the extent that we start telling the administrative
branch of government how they are going to reorganize is in my opinion
wrong, and I think it is violative of at least the spirit of the
Constitution to do so.
Mr. Chairman, I have listened to the debate for the last several
weeks on this issue and I have listened to all of the controversy about
Indonesia, and I have talked to some of my colleagues about the
problems in Indonesia and I have heard about the problems in Cuba, and
certainly, that is what we ought to do, talk about our concerns. We
ought to express our views to our colleagues. But at the same time, we
must recognize that people are listening to what we say.
Last year on the foreign operations bill, the appropriation bill, for
example, there was a great debate talking about we wanted to force the
people of Turkey to apologize for a massacre that took place decades
ago. It had no business being discussed on the floor of this House, in
my opinion. And the Turks, when we needed them in Korea, they were
right there. We accepted them into NATO, and yet at the same time we
were sending a message to them that we disagree with everything they
do, simply because of an atrocity that took place decades ago.
During the debate this week we talked about Indonesia, and I know
that a lot of people are concerned about the human rights violations in
Indonesia. So am I. But at the same time, we have to recognize that
Indonesia is a place where Americans are doing business, where our
Government is working to improve the very concerns that we have.
They are working to encourage Indonesia to eliminate any possibility
of future actions of human rights violations, and we are moving in the
right direction. We give them absolutely no credit for what they have
accomplished in consultation with our executive branch of government,
and yet criticize them and tell them in a sense that we do not like
them, that we do not want anything to do with them, while American
businessmen are over there creating jobs for American workers. They are
building generator plants, they are building the generators in the
United States of America. They are creating jobs. They are making
progress, for example, in the area of human rights, and we ought to
give them credit there and we ought to let our diplomats, the people we
have, the people that have been appointed by the President of the
United States, the professionals that he has chosen, to negotiate these
things rather than us jumping up on the floor of
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the House every time we visit a foreign country and become pseudo
experts on everything in the world. We are not the body to do that. We
can give our messages, but we must recognize that people are listening
to this.
Since the debate that took place a few days ago on Indonesia, the
President, or the head of Indonesia has now notified us that they do
not want to participate anymore in IMET training. I think that is
wrong. Our military wants to train their people, train them in human
rights, train them in the same type of activities so that we can depend
upon them should we ever need them.
The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman from Alabama [Mr. Callahan]
has expired.
(By unanimous consent, Mr. Callahan was allowed to proceed for 2
additional minutes.)
Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I would like to insert in the Record a
letter from Michael McGowan who was once a member of the Board of
Governors of the American Chamber of Commerce, which is all of the
American companies doing business in Indonesia, and let the Members
have the opportunity to read his views, to recognize that there is more
to this than just human rights.
We are doing the same thing with China, and I am concerned about
that. When China violated human rights and they locked up Harry Wu, I
was one of the ones that accompanied the gentleman from Louisiana [Mr.
Livingston], the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, to go to
China to try to get Harry Wu out of jail. We should do those things. We
should encourage them, but it is like a child coming home with a B-plus
and is criticized for not getting an A.
So I want the Members of this body to know that people are paying
attention to us, that we should recognize that we have diplomats to
work out these problems, that we do have the right to express our
concerns, but that we ought to be a little bit more cautious and we
ought to be a little bit more cautious on the micromanagement of the
Federal Government, of the executive branch of Government, in making
certain that we give them the latitude that they need, that is
necessary, to reorganize USAID, or any other department that we have
jurisdiction over.
June 9, 1997.
Hon. Sonny Callahan,
Committee on Appropriations, U.S. House of Representatives,
U.S. Congress, Washington, DC.
Dear Chairman Callahan: With regard to the recent
congressional debate concerning the Republic of Indonesia, I
would like to offer you some personal comments as a seventeen
year resident of Indonesia and a member of the Board of
Governors of the American Chamber of Commerce in Indonesia.
First, the current debate in the congress does little to
further U.S.-Indonesia bilateral relations. Constructive
engagement with Indonesia both at a governmental level and
through increased bilateral trade and other exchanges will
bear more fruit. Through continuing constructive engagement,
American policies, principles and values can be best
demonstrated to Indonesia. Continuing open debate on the
applicability of punitive sanctions does nothing to further
this relationship. Should sanctions be imposed, they serve as
a double obstacle to continuing engagement by prohibiting new
trade and exchange initiatives, while curtailing existing
trade and exchange. This is bad for U.S. export growth, and
costs American citizens jobs.
While no one can dispute that serious failures occurred in
Timor-Timor, the government of Indonesia has demonstrated
``Continuous Improvement'' of its human rights record as
exemplified by its performance during the Timika riots in the
province of Irian Jaya and more recently during the
elections. Although Indonesians suspected of causing civil
disorder have been detained, no deaths have been attributed
to government intervention.
Indonesian citizens deem the recent campaign to have been
fairly conducted. From the start, the ruling party GOLKAR was
never questioned with regard to its majority, only the degree
of its majority.
Religious freedom is a tenet of the country's national
philosophy. President Soeharto, himself a devout Muslim,
openly participates in observances of other religious
festivals such as Christmas and Easter.
To a great extent, the current debate in the U.S. is driven
by reports of ``bad news.'' This is not surprising as in the
old cliche ``bad news, sells papers.'' What I feel is
required is as follows:
Continuing Constructive Engagement between the U.S. and
Indonesian Governments.
Increasing U.S. Trade with Indonesia together with
increasing the presence of U.S. business to demonstrate the
application of American Values and Principles.
I thank you for this opportunity to express my thoughts.
Very truly yours,
Michael C. McGowan.
Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the requisite number
of words.
I am very pleased to stand in support of the Gilman amendment, and I
would like to yield my remaining time to the gentleman from New York
[Mr. Gilman], the very able chairman of the Committee on International
Relations who conducts his committee, as well as the amendments on the
floor, in a very fair, bipartisan manner, and it has been an honor for
me to be a part of his committee.
Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding, and I
thank her for her support of this amendment. She is a distinguished
subcommittee chairman on our committee. I wanted to take this
opportunity with regard to the adoption of this amendment, and to also
discuss the final passage of this measure.
I would like to note to my colleagues that this measure, as my
colleagues consider their final vote, contains no U.N. arrearages,
contains no foreign aid, consolidates two Federal agencies that are in
the en bloc amendment, merging them into the State Department, pursuant
to the President's announcement with regard to the Arms Control Agency
and the U.S. Information Agency, and contains traditional State
authorization funding passed regularly by Congress, authorizing
appropriations for USIA, for State, and ACDA. It contains anti-Castro
provisions that will help tighten the economic squeeze on Cuba. It
funds important United States-Mexico environmental border programs.
It contains provisions nailing deadbeat diplomats who drink, drive,
and kill, winning the endorsements even of our Mothers Against Drunk
Driving, and most important, it has been endorsed by Secretaries of
State Eagleburger, Baker, Shultz, Haig, and Kissinger, along with
National Security Advisors General Colin L. Powell and General Brent
Scowcroft.
Mr. Chairman, as we wind up our debate on this bill, I would also
like to thank some of the people for their contributions in support of
the measure. I would like to thank Members on both sides of the aisle
who have cooperated both in committee and here on the floor in
particular. I want to thank the gentleman from New Jersey [Mr. Smith],
the distinguished chairman of our Subcommittee on International
Operations and Human Rights, who is responsible for a good portion of
the bill that is before us and marked up a significant part of it in
subcommittee.
I also want to thank the gentleman from Nebraska [Mr. Bereuter], the
chairman of our Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, who has been
especially supportive, and our other distinguished subcommittee
chairpersons who have made contributions.
I want to thank our distinguished ranking Democratic member, Mr.
Hamilton, for his cooperation in working out a bipartisan approach to
this bill, and hopefully, we will both be able to get support for this
in the other body. The staff and the committee on both the majority and
the minority side have worked especially hard on this bill and deserve
the thanks of all of our Members. We have also had vital assistance
from the Office of Legislative Counsel and from the expert
Parliamentarians.
Finally, Mr. Speaker, I would like to express my appreciation to you
and your predecessors in the chair for an extensive, long consideration
of this measure.
Mr. Chairman, again I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle
to give their support to this bipartisan measure on the final vote.
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Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the requisite number of
words.
Mr. Chairman, when the Committee rises and reports this bill to the
House, I understand that a separate vote may be called for on the
amendment I offered that was adopted in the House last Wednesday. If
that should occur, it is my intention to call for a separate vote in
the House on several other amendments that passed in the Committee of
the Whole.
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My amendment requires that the Secretary of State issue a report
every 3 months listing all complaints by the Government of Cuba to the
United States Government agencies. If we are going to be taking another
vote on this amendment, I believe then that some other amendments also
deserve another vote.
My amendment is not controversial; rather, its purpose is to make
sure that Congress has enough information to make informed judgments on
our policies toward Cuba. There is no reason to select this particular
amendment out of all of the amendments that have been agreed to for a
revote. In fact, there is no reason to vote against my amendment,
unless Members do not want to see the more balanced and complete view
of Cuba that these State Department reports could present. I believe
that this information will help Congress make wiser decisions and
perhaps prevent future misunderstandings.
For example, before the Brothers to the Rescue planes were shot down
on February 24, 1996, Cuba made over 10 complaints to the Federal
Aviation Administration about the group's violations of Cuban airspace.
If Congress had seen these complaints, this tragedy might have been
prevented.
At present the Cuban Government makes formal complaints to the State
Department, but complaints are also made to other agencies, such as the
FAA or the American interest section in Havana. Some complaints have
involved violations of Cuban airspace, the dropping of leaflets in
Havana that the Cuban Government finds offensive, traveling too close
to Cuban shores, and even, according to the Cuban Government, terrorist
acts against Cuban territory.
My amendment would put these complaints in one comprehensive report.
If a separate vote is asked on my noncontroversial amendment, whose
purpose is to give Congress information, I will ask for separate votes
totaling close to 26 on many of the other amendments already passed.
Mr. DIAZ-BALART. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the requisite number
of words.
Mr. Chairman, I find it very interesting, to say the least, that our
colleague on the other side of the aisle has just called the amendment
that he introduced in this legislation late at night, when there were
literally two other Members on the floor, noncontroversial.
It would be the first time in the history of the United States that
taxpayer funds would have to be spent, United States taxpayer funds
would have to be spent, every 90 days to file a report by the United
States Government with regard to any and all complaints against United
States citizens made by the dictatorship of Cuba, one of the handful of
terrorist states on the list of terrorist states by the State
Department.
It is important that we recognize what the so-called noncontroversial
amendment that we are simply seeking a vote on, what that would do.
United States taxpayer funds would have to be expended so that any and
all complaints made by the terrorist state, the dictatorship of Cuba,
any complaints against United States citizens, any and all complaints,
would have to be reported on and paid for by United States taxpayers.
To call that a noncontroversial amendment is really almost
inconceivable.
Now, we are simply asking for a vote, and we are going to ask a vote,
the gentlewoman from Florida [Ms. Ros-Lehtinen] is going to ask for a
vote at the appropriate time. It seems inconceivable that that would be
called not only noncontroversial but that in any way it would be
implied as though it were something excessive on our part to ask for a
vote.
Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
Mr. DIAZ-BALART. I yield to the gentlewoman from Florida.
Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Chairman, I thank my colleague for yielding to
me.
Mr. Chairman, for our colleague in New York, we do not mean to tie up
the time of our colleagues on revote after revote after revote. It is
the gentleman who is going to be asking for that. We merely want to
call a vote on an amendment which is very controversial, which asks
U.S. taxpayers to fund a Castro investigation.
We think there are better uses for the scarce resources of our Nation
than to give credibility to a dictator's false accusations. The U.S.
Department of State is not an agency of Fidel Castro. We should not
treat it as such. Yet, that is what this amendment asks for, so we
believe that there are better uses of taxpayer funds.
We are not calling for 20-some-odd votes. The gentleman is the one, I
would say to our colleague from New York, who is going to be doing
that. We are merely calling for one vote, a roll-call vote, if it is
demanded, if we lose on the voice vote; and that is, I think, fair, in
the interests of democracy. We are not afraid of votes. We are not
afraid of arguing the amendment on its merits.
I think if we had had that opportunity at the appropriate time, I
think we would not be in this situation now. We are certainly not
worried about the outcome of the vote. We think it is a fair process,
when there are more Members present to redebate the issue and revote on
the issue. We are not calling for 26 amendment votes, the gentleman is
calling for that.
As our colleagues come on the floor, we want them to make sure, after
I demand that separate vote on the Serrano amendment, that they
understand that the person responsible for them coming time after time
to vote is the gentleman from New York [Mr. Serrano], and not their
Florida colleagues.
Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the
requisite number of words.
Mr. Chairman, I would just say that, if somehow an amendment should
be revoted because it was passed on the floor when there were very few
Members of Congress, that is the history of this bill. Perhaps the
gentleman from New York [Mr. Serrano] is right for a number of other
reasons. This entire bill basically has been debated by few or no
Members on the floor.
Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
Mr. MILLER of California. I yield to the gentleman from New York.
Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from California for
yielding to me.
Mr. Chairman, the gentleman is correct. I came to this floor that
evening under the rules of this House and passed an amendment with a
number of people on the floor, no different than when other people have
passed amendments. The fact of life is that the only reason we are
revoting this amendment is because it has to do with the one issue this
House never wants to yield on or debate fully.
Second, according to that statement that the gentlewoman made, I
think it is proper, then, to revote the others, because some of them
passed by a very slim margin. If it is proper to revote one that passed
with no vote, then it is proper to revote the other margins.
Then, lastly but not unimportant, I think, it is interesting that so
much is made about a report that will come to Congress. I do not know
at what point it is improper to tell the taxpayers that Congress should
be informed before it makes a decision. But it is interesting to note
that at the insistence of some of the people who would be calling for
this vote, the bill currently calls for reports on the enforcement of
the ongoing Cuban embargo.
In other words, in this bill right now there are provisions for
reports to be made to Congress every few months on how that issue is
going. So I felt that it was proper to add another report that would
balance the issue a little bit, and prevent further problems in the
future.
Mr. EWING. Mr. Chairman, I would like to explain a sense-of-the-
Congress amendment which calls on the Government of Peru to respect the
rights of prisoners to timely legal action. My amendment was adopted by
the House as part of Chairman Gilman's en bloc amendment last week.
The amendment contains strong language commending Peru for their
efforts to control drugs and stating that anyone convicted for
possession of drugs should face stiff penalties.
A constituent of mine, Jennifer Davis, and her friend Krista Barnes,
have been held in prison in Peru for more than 8 months without being
formally charged with a crime, without a trial, and without being
sentenced. They are being held under horrible conditions which are in
violation of basic international standards for the treatment of
prisoners. I have a very serious question about whether the United
States
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should continue sending about $100 million in foreign aid to Peru every
year when that country is denying American citizens protection of their
basic human rights and holding them more than 8 months without a trial.
Jennifer and Krista, who are only 20 years old, were arrested in Peru
in September 1996 after being recruited by some Peruvians to carry
cocaine. They deserve to be punished for this crime, and they know
that. In fact, they immediately admitted their guilt and have gone out
of their way to cooperate with the police. As a result, three Peruvians
who put them up to this have been arrested.
Their willingness to cooperate has benefited them in no way. Eight
months later they sit in prison without being charged and without a
trial.
The prison where they are being held is not fit for humans. It was
built for 230 but has about 700 prisoners, including small children.
The women share a communal bathroom with no running water and no soap.
The food is unsanitary and they do not receive any milk, vegetables, or
fruit. Disease is rampant as well as rats, roaches, and sick animals.
Health care is virtually nonexistent and Jennifer has lost over 22
pounds.
My sense-of-the-Congress language calls on Peru to respect the rights
of prisoners to timely legal procedures. This is the minimum the
American taxpayers should expect in return for the millions of dollars
we give to Peru every year. Eight months without bringing charges and
without a trial is unreasonable and unacceptable.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
The CHAIRMAN pro tempore. The question is on the amendments en bloc
offered by the gentleman from New York [Mr. Gilman].
The amendments en bloc were agreed to.
The CHAIRMAN pro tempore. Under the rule, the Committee rises.
Accordingly the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore [Mr.
Goodlatte] having assumed the chair, Mr. Rogers, Chairman pro tempore
of the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, reported
that that Committee, having had under consideration the bill, (H.R.
1757) to consolidate international affairs agencies, to authorize
appropriations for the Department of State and related agencies for
fiscal years 1998 and 1999, and for other purposes, pursuant to House
Resolution 159, he reported the bill back to the House with sundry
amendments adopted by the Committee of the Whole.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the rule, the previous question is
ordered.
Is a separate vote demanded on any amendment adopted by the Committee
of the Whole?
Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, I demand a separate vote on the so-
called Serrano amendment.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is a separate vote demanded on any other
amendment?
Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Speaker, I demand separate votes on the following
amendments numbered on the Clerk's list in the order in which they
appear in the bill.
The amendments are as follows: No. 1, the so-called Gilman amendments
en bloc; No. 2, the so-called Gilman amendment; No. 4, the so-called
Skaggs amendment, as amended by the so-called Diaz-Balart amendment;
No. 3, the so-called Smith of New Jersey amendment; No. 6, the so-
called Bachus amendment; No. 5, the so-called Hefley amendment; No. 7,
the so-called Gilman amendments en bloc; No. 8, the so-called Goss
amendment; No. 10, the so-called Gilman amendments en bloc; No. 9, the
so-called Coburn amendment; No. 11, the so-called Smith of New Jersey
amendment; No. 15, the so-called Fox of Pennsylvania amendment; No. 16,
the so-called Lazio of New York amendment; No. 19, the so-called Smith
of New Jersey amendment; No. 20, the so-called Gilman amendment; No.
22, the so-called Scarborough amendment, as modified; No. 24, the so-
called Nethercutt amendment; No. 26, the so-called Paxon amendment; No.
23, the so-called Ney amendment; No. 25, the so-called Miller of
California amendment, as amended by the so-called Diaz-Balart
amendment; No. 35, the so-called Rohrabacher amendment; No. 29, the so-
called Fox of Pennsylvania amendment.
Mr. Speaker, as I stated before, I demand separate votes on each one.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is a separate vote demanded on any other
amendment? If not, the Chair will redesignate them en gros.
The amendments were agreed to.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will redesignate the first
amendment on which a separate vote has been demanded.
The Clerk redesignated the amendments en bloc.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the amendments en bloc
offered by the gentleman from New York [Mr. Gilman].
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
Mr. SERRANO. 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 clause 5(b) 2 of rule XV, the Chair announces that he may
reduce to a minimum of 5 minutes the period of time within which a vote
by electronic device will be taken on the question of adoption of the
amendments on which separate votes have been demanded.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 420,
nays 6, not voting 8, as follows:
[Roll No. 180]
YEAS--420
Abercrombie
Ackerman
Aderholt
Allen
Andrews
Archer
Armey
Bachus
Baesler
Baker
Baldacci
Ballenger
Barcia
Barr
Barrett (NE)
Barrett (WI)
Bartlett
Barton
Bass
Bateman
Becerra
Bentsen
Bereuter
Berman
Berry
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop
Blagojevich
Bliley
Blumenauer
Blunt
Boehlert
Boehner
Bonilla
Bonior
Bono
Borski
Boswell
Boucher
Boyd
Brady
Brown (CA)
Brown (FL)
Brown (OH)
Bryant
Bunning
Burr
Burton
Buyer
Callahan
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Canady
Capps
Cardin
Carson
Castle
Chabot
Chambliss
Chenoweth
Christensen
Clay
Clayton
Clement
Clyburn
Coble
Coburn
Collins
Combest
Condit
Conyers
Cook
Cooksey
Costello
Coyne
Cramer
Crane
Crapo
Cubin
Cummings
Cunningham
Danner
Davis (FL)
Davis (IL)
Davis (VA)
DeFazio
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
DeLay
Dellums
Deutsch
Diaz-Balart
Dickey
Dicks
Dingell
Dixon
Doggett
Dooley
Doolittle
Doyle
Dreier
Duncan
Dunn
Edwards
Ehlers
Ehrlich
Emerson
Engel
English
Ensign
Eshoo
Etheridge
Evans
Everett
Ewing
Fattah
Fawell
Fazio
Filner
Foglietta
Foley
Ford
Fowler
Fox
Frank (MA)
Franks (NJ)
Frelinghuysen
Frost
Furse
Gallegly
Ganske
Gejdenson
Gekas
Gephardt
Gibbons
Gilchrest
Gillmor
Gilman
Gonzalez
Goode
Goodlatte
Goodling
Gordon
Goss
Graham
Granger
Green
Greenwood
Gutierrez
Gutknecht
Hall (OH)
Hall (TX)
Hamilton
Hansen
Harman
Hastert
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Hefley
Hefner
Herger
Hill
Hilleary
Hilliard
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hobson
Hoekstra
Holden
Hooley
Horn
Hostettler
Houghton
Hoyer
Hulshof
Hunter
Hutchinson
Hyde
Inglis
Istook
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
Jenkins
John
Johnson (CT)
Johnson (WI)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kasich
Kelly
Kennedy (MA)
Kennedy (RI)
Kennelly
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kim
Kind (WI)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kleczka
Klink
Klug
Knollenberg
Kolbe
Kucinich
LaFalce
LaHood
Lampson
Lantos
Largent
Latham
LaTourette
Lazio
Leach
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Lipinski
Livingston
LoBiondo
Lofgren
Lowey
Lucas
Luther
Maloney (CT)
Maloney (NY)
Manton
Manzullo
Markey
Martinez
Mascara
Matsui
McCarthy (MO)
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McCrery
McDade
McDermott
McGovern
McHale
McHugh
McInnis
McIntosh
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinney
McNulty
Meehan
Meek
Menendez
Metcalf
Mica
Millender-McDonald
Miller (CA)
Miller (FL)
Minge
Mink
Moakley
Mollohan
Moran (KS)
Moran (VA)
Morella
Murtha
Myrick
Nadler
Neal
Nethercutt
Neumann
Ney
Northup
Norwood
Nussle
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Owens
Oxley
Packard
Pallone
Pappas
Parker
Pascrell
Pastor
Paul
Paxon
Payne
Pease
Pelosi
Peterson (MN)
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pickering
Pickett
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Pitts
Pombo
Pomeroy
Porter
Portman
Poshard
Price (NC)
Pryce (OH)
Quinn
Radanovich
Rahall
Ramstad
Rangel
Redmond
Regula
Reyes
Riggs
Riley
Rivers
Rodriguez
Roemer
Rogan
Rogers
Ros-Lehtinen
Rothman
Roukema
Roybal-Allard
Rush
Ryun
Sabo
Salmon
Sanchez
Sanders
Sandlin
Sanford
Sawyer
Saxton
Schaefer, Dan
Schaffer, Bob
Schumer
Scott
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sessions
Shadegg
Shaw
Shays
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuster
Sisisky
Skaggs
Skeen
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (MI)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (OR)
Smith, Adam
Smith, Linda
Snowbarger
Snyder
Solomon
Souder
Spence
Spratt
Stabenow
Stearns
Stenholm
Stokes
Strickland
Stump
Stupak
Sununu
Talent
Tanner
Tauscher
Tauzin
Taylor (MS)
Taylor (NC)
Thomas
Thompson
Thornberry
Thune
Thurman
Tiahrt
Tierney
Torres
Towns
Traficant
Turner
Upton
Velazquez
Vento
Walsh
Wamp
Waters
Watkins
Watt (NC)
Watts (OK)
Waxman
Weldon (FL)
Weldon (PA)
Weller
Wexler
Weygand
White
Whitfield
Wicker
Wise
Wolf
Woolsey
Wynn
Yates
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
NAYS--6
Cannon
Cox
Deal
Rohrabacher
Royce
Scarborough
NOT VOTING--8
Farr
Flake
Forbes
Molinari
Schiff
Smith (TX)
Stark
Visclosky
{time} 1339
Messrs. DEAL of Georgia, ROYCE and ROHRABACHER changed their vote
from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
Mr. BORSKI and Mr. OWENS changed their vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
So the amendments en bloc were agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Goodlatte). The Clerk will designate the
next amendment on which a separate vote has been demanded.
The text of the amendments is as follows:
Amendments offered by Mr. Gilman:
Page 84, line 5, strike ``$1,291,977,000'' and insert
``$1,746,977,000''.
Page 84, line 6, strike ``$1,291,977,000'' and insert
``$1,746,977,000''.
Strike line 7 on page 110 and all that follows through line
17 on page 112.
Page 84, line 4, insert ``(A) Authorization of
appropriations.--'' before ``For''.
Page 84, after line 7 insert the following:
(B) Passport information services.--The Secretary of State
shall provide passport information without charge to citizens
of the United States, including--
(i) information about who is eligible to receive a United
States passport and how and where to apply;
(ii) information about the status of pending applications;
and
(iii) names, addresses, and telephone numbers of State and
Federal officials who are authorized to provide passport
information in cooperation with the Department of State.
Page 112, strike line 18 and all that follows through line
7 on page 114 and insert the following:
SEC. 1208. SURCHARGE FOR PROCEEDING CERTAIN MACHINE READABLE
VISAS.
Section 140(a) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act,
Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (Public Law 103-236) is amended--
(1) in paragraph (2) by striking ``providing consular
services,'' and inserting ``the Department of State's border
security program, including the costs of installation and
operation of the machine readable visa and automated name-
check process, improving the quality and security of the
United States passport, passport and visa fraud
investigations, and the technological infrastructure to
support the programs referred to in this sentence.'';
(2) by striking the first sentence of paragraph (3) and
inserting ``For fiscal years 1998 and 1998, fees deposited
under the authority of paragraph (2) may not exceed
$140,000,000 in each fiscal year and, notwithstanding
paragraph (2), such fees shall be available only to the
extent provided in advance in appropriations Acts.''; and
(3) by striking paragraph (5).
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the amendments offered by
the gentleman from New York [Mr. Gilman].
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
Recorded Vote
Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 422,
noes 0, not voting 12, as follows:
[Roll No. 181]
AYES--422
Abercrombie
Ackerman
Aderholt
Allen
Andrews
Archer
Armey
Bachus
Baesler
Baker
Baldacci
Ballenger
Barcia
Barr
Barrett (NE)
Barrett (WI)
Bartlett
Barton
Bass
Bateman
Becerra
Bentsen
Bereuter
Berman
Berry
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop
Blagojevich
Bliley
Blumenauer
Blunt
Boehlert
Boehner
Bonilla
Bonior
Bono
Borski
Boswell
Boucher
Boyd
Brady
Brown (CA)
Brown (FL)
Brown (OH)
Bryant
Bunning
Burr
Burton
Buyer
Callahan
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Canady
Cannon
Capps
Cardin
Carson
Castle
Chabot
Chambliss
Chenoweth
Christensen
Clay
Clayton
Clement
Clyburn
Coble
Coburn
Collins
Combest
Condit
Conyers
Cook
Cooksey
Costello
Cox
Coyne
Cramer
Crane
Crapo
Cubin
Cummings
Cunningham
Danner
Davis (FL)
Davis (IL)
Davis (VA)
Deal
DeFazio
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
DeLay
Dellums
Deutsch
Diaz-Balart
Dickey
Dicks
Dingell
Dixon
Doggett
Dooley
Doolittle
Doyle
Dreier
Duncan
Dunn
Edwards
Ehlers
Ehrlich
Emerson
Engel
English
Ensign
Eshoo
Etheridge
Evans
Everett
Ewing
Fattah
Fawell
Fazio
Filner
Foglietta
Foley
Ford
Fowler
Fox
Frank (MA)
Franks (NJ)
Frelinghuysen
Frost
Furse
Gallegly
Ganske
Gejdenson
Gekas
Gephardt
Gibbons
Gilchrest
Gillmor
Gilman
Gonzalez
Goode
Goodlatte
Goodling
Gordon
Goss
Graham
Granger
Green
Greenwood
Gutierrez
Gutknecht
Hall (OH)
Hall (TX)
Hamilton
Hansen
Harman
Hastert
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Hefley
Hefner
Herger
Hill
Hilleary
Hilliard
Hinojosa
Hobson
Hoekstra
Holden
Hooley
Hostettler
Houghton
Hoyer
Hulshof
Hunter
Hutchinson
Hyde
Inglis
Istook
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
Jenkins
John
Johnson (CT)
Johnson (WI)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kasich
Kelly
Kennedy (MA)
Kennedy (RI)
Kennelly
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kim
Kind (WI)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kleczka
Klink
Klug
Knollenberg
Kolbe
Kucinich
LaFalce
LaHood
Lampson
Lantos
Largent
Latham
LaTourette
Lazio
Leach
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Lipinski
Livingston
LoBiondo
Lofgren
Lowey
Lucas
Luther
Maloney (CT)
Maloney (NY)
Manton
Manzullo
Markey
Martinez
Mascara
Matsui
McCarthy (MO)
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McCrery
McDade
McDermott
McGovern
McHale
McHugh
McInnis
McIntosh
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinney
McNulty
Meehan
Meek
Menendez
Metcalf
Mica
Millender-McDonald
Miller (CA)
Miller (FL)
Minge
Mink
Moakley
Mollohan
Moran (KS)
Moran (VA)
Morella
Murtha
Myrick
Nadler
Neal
Nethercutt
Neumann
Ney
Northup
Norwood
Nussle
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Owens
Oxley
Packard
Pallone
Pappas
Parker
Pascrell
Pastor
Paul
Paxon
Payne
Pease
Peterson (MN)
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pickering
Pickett
Pitts
Pombo
Pomeroy
Portman
Poshard
Price (NC)
Pryce (OH)
Quinn
Radanovich
Rahall
Ramstad
Rangel
Redmond
Regula
Reyes
Riggs
Riley
Rivers
Rodriguez
Roemer
Rogan
Rogers
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Rothman
Roukema
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Rush
Ryun
Sabo
Salmon
Sanchez
Sanders
Sanford
Sawyer
Saxton
Scarborough
Schaefer, Dan
Schaffer, Bob
Schumer
Scott
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sessions
Shadegg
Shaw
Shays
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuster
Sisisky
Skaggs
Skeen
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (MI)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (OR)
Smith (TX)
Smith, Adam
Smith, Linda
Snowbarger
Snyder
Solomon
Souder
Spence
Spratt
Stabenow
Stark
Stearns
Stenholm
Stokes
Strickland
Stump
Stupak
Sununu
Talent
Tanner
Tauscher
Tauzin
Taylor (MS)
Taylor (NC)
Thomas
Thompson
Thornberry
Thune
Thurman
Tiahrt
Tierney
Torres
Towns
Traficant
Turner
Upton
Velazquez
Vento
Walsh
Wamp
Waters
Watkins
Watt (NC)
Watts (OK)
Waxman
Weldon (FL)
Weldon (PA)
Weller
Wexler
Weygand
White
Whitfield
Wicker
Wolf
Woolsey
Wynn
Yates
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
[[Page H3688]]
NOT VOTING--12
Farr
Flake
Forbes
Hinchey
Horn
Molinari
Pelosi
Porter
Sandlin
Schiff
Visclosky
Wise
{time} 1349
So the amendments were agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
personal explanation
Mr. VISCLOSKY. Mr. Speaker, earlier today, I was unavoidably detained
and was not present for rollcall votes 180 and 181. Had I been present,
I would have voted ``yea'' on both.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Goodlatte). The Clerk will designate the
next amendment on which a separate vote has been demanded.
The text of the amendment is as follows:
Amendment offered by Mr. Smith of New Jersey:
Page 96, lines 8 and 9, strike $334,655,000'' both places
it appears and insert ``$344,655,000'' and ``$341,655,000''
respectively.
Page 96, lines 21 and 22, strike $30,000,000'' both places
it appears and insert ``40,000,000'' and ``33,000,000''
respectively.
Page 96, lines 24 and 25, strike ``10,000,000'' both places
it appears and insert ``$30,000,000''.
Add at the end of Title XI:
SEC. .
(a) It is the sense of Congress that the United States
broadcasting through Radio Free Asia and Voice of America
increase to continuous, 24-hour broadcasting in Mandarin,
Cantonese, Tibetan, and that broadcasting in additional
Chinese dialects be increased.
(b) Within 90 days of enactment of this Act, the President
shall report to the Congress on a plan to achieve continuous
broadcasting in Asia.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the amendment offered by
the gentleman from New Jersey [Mr. Smith].
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
recorded vote
Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 354,
noes 72, not voting 8, as follows:
[Roll No. 182]
AYES--354
Abercrombie
Ackerman
Aderholt
Allen
Andrews
Archer
Armey
Bachus
Baesler
Baker
Baldacci
Ballenger
Barcia
Barr
Barrett (NE)
Bartlett
Barton
Bass
Bateman
Bentsen
Bereuter
Berman
Berry
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop
Blagojevich
Bliley
Blumenauer
Blunt
Boehlert
Boehner
Bonior
Bono
Borski
Boswell
Boyd
Brady
Brown (FL)
Brown (OH)
Bryant
Bunning
Burr
Burton
Buyer
Callahan
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Canady
Cannon
Capps
Cardin
Carson
Castle
Chambliss
Chenoweth
Christensen
Clayton
Clyburn
Coburn
Collins
Combest
Cook
Cooksey
Costello
Cox
Coyne
Cramer
Crane
Crapo
Cubin
Cunningham
Davis (FL)
Davis (VA)
Deal
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
DeLay
Deutsch
Diaz-Balart
Dickey
Dicks
Dixon
Doggett
Doolittle
Doyle
Dreier
Dunn
Edwards
Ehlers
Ehrlich
Emerson
Engel
English
Ensign
Eshoo
Etheridge
Everett
Ewing
Fawell
Fazio
Foley
Ford
Fowler
Fox
Franks (NJ)
Frelinghuysen
Frost
Furse
Gallegly
Gekas
Gephardt
Gibbons
Gilchrest
Gillmor
Gilman
Gonzalez
Goodlatte
Gordon
Goss
Graham
Granger
Green
Greenwood
Gutierrez
Gutknecht
Hall (OH)
Hall (TX)
Hamilton
Hansen
Harman
Hastert
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Hefley
Hefner
Herger
Hill
Hilleary
Hilliard
Hobson
Holden
Hooley
Horn
Hostettler
Houghton
Hoyer
Hulshof
Hunter
Hutchinson
Hyde
Inglis
Istook
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
Jenkins
John
Johnson (CT)
Johnson (WI)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Kaptur
Kasich
Kelly
Kennedy (MA)
Kennedy (RI)
Kennelly
Kildee
Kim
King (NY)
Klink
Klug
Knollenberg
Kolbe
Kucinich
LaFalce
LaHood
Lampson
Lantos
Largent
Latham
LaTourette
Lazio
Leach
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Lipinski
Livingston
LoBiondo
Lofgren
Lowey
Lucas
Maloney (CT)
Maloney (NY)
Manton
Manzullo
Markey
Mascara
Matsui
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McCrery
McDade
McGovern
McHale
McHugh
McInnis
McIntosh
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinney
McNulty
Meek
Menendez
Metcalf
Mica
Miller (FL)
Mink
Moakley
Moran (KS)
Moran (VA)
Morella
Murtha
Myrick
Nadler
Neal
Nethercutt
Neumann
Ney
Northup
Norwood
Nussle
Oberstar
Ortiz
Oxley
Packard
Pallone
Pappas
Pascrell
Pastor
Paxon
Pease
Pelosi
Peterson (MN)
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pickering
Pickett
Pitts
Pomeroy
Porter
Portman
Poshard
Price (NC)
Pryce (OH)
Quinn
Radanovich
Rahall
Ramstad
Redmond
Regula
Reyes
Riggs
Riley
Roemer
Rogan
Rogers
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Rothman
Roukema
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Ryun
Salmon
Sanchez
Sandlin
Sawyer
Saxton
Scarborough
Schaefer, Dan
Schaffer, Bob
Schumer
Scott
Sessions
Shadegg
Shaw
Shays
Sherman
Shimkus
Sisisky
Skaggs
Skeen
Skelton
Smith (MI)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (OR)
Smith (TX)
Smith, Adam
Smith, Linda
Snowbarger
Snyder
Solomon
Souder
Spence
Spratt
Stabenow
Stearns
Stenholm
Strickland
Stump
Stupak
Sununu
Talent
Tanner
Tauscher
Tauzin
Taylor (MS)
Taylor (NC)
Thomas
Thompson
Thornberry
Thune
Thurman
Tiahrt
Towns
Traficant
Turner
Upton
Visclosky
Walsh
Wamp
Watkins
Watts (OK)
Waxman
Weldon (PA)
Weller
Wexler
Weygand
White
Whitfield
Wicker
Wise
Wolf
Woolsey
Wynn
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
NOES--72
Barrett (WI)
Becerra
Bonilla
Boucher
Brown (CA)
Chabot
Clay
Clement
Coble
Condit
Conyers
Cummings
Danner
Davis (IL)
DeFazio
Dellums
Dingell
Dooley
Duncan
Evans
Fattah
Filner
Foglietta
Frank (MA)
Ganske
Gejdenson
Goode
Goodling
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hoekstra
Jackson (IL)
Kanjorski
Kilpatrick
Kind (WI)
Kingston
Kleczka
Lewis (GA)
Luther
Martinez
McCarthy (MO)
McDermott
Meehan
Millender-McDonald
Miller (CA)
Minge
Mollohan
Obey
Olver
Owens
Parker
Paul
Payne
Pombo
Rivers
Rodriguez
Rush
Sabo
Sanders
Sanford
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Shuster
Slaughter
Stokes
Tierney
Torres
Velazquez
Vento
Waters
Watt (NC)
Yates
NOT VOTING--8
Farr
Flake
Forbes
Molinari
Rangel
Schiff
Stark
Weldon (FL)
{time} 1400
Mr. GOODLING changed his vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
Mr. COYNE and Mr. NADLER changed their vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Goodlatte). The Clerk will designate the
next amendment on which a separate vote has been demanded.
The text of the amendment is as follows:
Amendment, as amended, offered by Mr. Skaggs of Colorado:
Page 97, line 1, insert ``(A) Authorization of
appropriations'' before ``For''.
Page 97, after line 3, insert the following:
(B) Limitation.--Of the amounts authorized to be
appropriated under subparagraph (A), no funds shall be used
for television broadcasting to Cuba after October 1, ``1997,
if the President certifies that continued funding is not in
the national interest of the United States.''
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the amendment offered by
the gentleman from Colorado [Mr. Scaggs], as amended.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
Recorded Vote
Mr. SERRANO. 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 279,
noes 149, not voting 6, as follows:
[Roll No. 183]
AYES--279
Ackerman
Aderholt
Andrews
Bachus
Baker
Ballenger
Barcia
Barr
Barton
Bass
Bateman
Bentsen
Bereuter
Bilirakis
Bishop
Blagojevich
Bliley
Blunt
Boehner
Bonilla
Bono
[[Page H3689]]
Boswell
Boyd
Brady
Brown (FL)
Brown (OH)
Bryant
Bunning
Burr
Burton
Buyer
Callahan
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Canady
Cannon
Cardin
Carson
Castle
Chabot
Chambliss
Chenoweth
Clayton
Clement
Clyburn
Coburn
Collins
Combest
Cook
Cooksey
Cox
Coyne
Crane
Crapo
Cubin
Cunningham
Davis (FL)
Davis (VA)
Deutsch
Diaz-Balart
Dickey
Doolittle
Doyle
Dreier
Duncan
Dunn
Edwards
Ehlers
Ehrlich
Emerson
Engel
English
Ensign
Etheridge
Everett
Ewing
Fawell
Fazio
Foley
Ford
Fowler
Fox
Franks (NJ)
Frelinghuysen
Frost
Gallegly
Gekas
Gephardt
Gibbons
Gilchrest
Gillmor
Gilman
Goodlatte
Goodling
Gordon
Goss
Graham
Granger
Green
Greenwood
Gutierrez
Gutknecht
Hansen
Hastert
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Hefley
Herger
Hill
Hilleary
Hinojosa
Hobson
Holden
Horn
Hostettler
Houghton
Hoyer
Hulshof
Hunter
Hutchinson
Hyde
Inglis
Istook
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jenkins
John
Johnson (CT)
Johnson (WI)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Kaptur
Kasich
Kelly
Kennedy (RI)
Kim
King (NY)
Kingston
Klink
Klug
Knollenberg
Kolbe
Kucinich
LaHood
Lampson
Lantos
Largent
Latham
LaTourette
Lazio
Leach
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Lipinski
Livingston
LoBiondo
Lucas
Maloney (CT)
Maloney (NY)
Manton
Manzullo
Mascara
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McCrery
McDade
McHugh
McInnis
McIntosh
McKeon
McNulty
Meek
Menendez
Metcalf
Mica
Miller (FL)
Moran (KS)
Morella
Murtha
Myrick
Nethercutt
Ney
Northup
Norwood
Nussle
Ortiz
Oxley
Packard
Pallone
Pappas
Pascrell
Pastor
Paxon
Pease
Pelosi
Peterson (MN)
Peterson (PA)
Pickering
Pickett
Pitts
Pombo
Porter
Portman
Pryce (OH)
Quinn
Radanovich
Rahall
Ramstad
Redmond
Regula
Reyes
Riggs
Riley
Rogan
Rogers
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Rothman
Roukema
Royce
Ryun
Salmon
Sanford
Saxton
Scarborough
Schaefer, Dan
Schaffer, Bob
Sessions
Shadegg
Shaw
Shays
Sherman
Shimkus
Sisisky
Skeen
Skelton
Smith (MI)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (OR)
Smith (TX)
Smith, Linda
Snowbarger
Snyder
Solomon
Souder
Spence
Spratt
Stabenow
Stearns
Strickland
Stump
Stupak
Sununu
Talent
Tauzin
Taylor (NC)
Thomas
Thornberry
Thune
Tiahrt
Traficant
Walsh
Wamp
Watkins
Watts (OK)
Weldon (FL)
Weldon (PA)
Weller
Wexler
White
Wicker
Wolf
Wynn
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
NOES--149
Abercrombie
Allen
Armey
Baesler
Baldacci
Barrett (NE)
Barrett (WI)
Bartlett
Becerra
Berman
Berry
Bilbray
Blumenauer
Boehlert
Bonior
Borski
Boucher
Brown (CA)
Capps
Christensen
Clay
Coble
Condit
Conyers
Costello
Cramer
Cummings
Danner
Davis (IL)
Deal
DeFazio
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
DeLay
Dellums
Dicks
Dingell
Dixon
Doggett
Dooley
Eshoo
Evans
Fattah
Filner
Foglietta
Frank (MA)
Furse
Ganske
Gejdenson
Gonzalez
Goode
Hall (OH)
Hall (TX)
Hamilton
Harman
Hefner
Hilliard
Hinchey
Hoekstra
Hooley
Jackson (IL)
Jefferson
Kanjorski
Kennedy (MA)
Kennelly
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kind (WI)
Kleczka
LaFalce
Lewis (GA)
Lofgren
Lowey
Luther
Markey
Martinez
Matsui
McCarthy (MO)
McDermott
McGovern
McHale
McIntyre
McKinney
Meehan
Millender-McDonald
Miller (CA)
Minge
Mink
Moakley
Mollohan
Moran (VA)
Nadler
Neal
Neumann
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Owens
Parker
Paul
Payne
Petri
Pomeroy
Poshard
Price (NC)
Rangel
Rivers
Rodriguez
Roemer
Roybal-Allard
Rush
Sabo
Sanchez
Sanders
Sandlin
Sawyer
Schumer
Scott
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Shuster
Skaggs
Slaughter
Smith, Adam
Stark
Stenholm
Stokes
Tanner
Tauscher
Taylor (MS)
Thompson
Thurman
Tierney
Torres
Towns
Turner
Upton
Velazquez
Vento
Visclosky
Waters
Watt (NC)
Waxman
Weygand
Whitfield
Wise
Woolsey
Yates
NOT VOTING--6
Archer
Farr
Flake
Forbes
Molinari
Schiff
{time} 1412
Messrs. DOGGETT, HOEKSTRA, CRAMER, NEUMANN, and WHITFIELD changed
their vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
Messrs. COYNE, CLYBURN, and FAZIO of California and Ms. EDDIE BERNICE
JOHNSON of Texas changed their vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
So the amendment, as amended, was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the next amendment
on which a separate vote has been demanded.
The text of the amendment is as follows:
Amendment offered by Mr. Hefley:
At the end of chapter 1 of title XII (relating to
Department of State authorities and activities) insert the
following new section and amend the table of contents
accordingly):
SEC. 1221. NOTIFICATION OF CRIMES COMMITTED BY DIPLOMATS.
Title II of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of
1956 (22 U.S.C. 4301 et seq.; commonly referred to as the
``Foreign Missions Act'') is amended by inserting after
section 204A the following:
``SEC. 204B. CRIMES COMMITTED BY DIPLOMATS.
``(a) Records.--(1) The Secretary of State shall develop
and maintain records on each incident in which an individual
with immunity from the criminal jurisdiction of the United
States under the Vienna Convention who the Secretary
reasonably believes has committed a serious criminal offense
within the United States which was not subject to the
criminal jurisdiction of the United States. Each such record
shall include--
``(A) the identity of such individual;
``(B) the nature of the offense committed by such
individual, including whether against property or persons;
``(C) whether such offense involved reckless driving or
driving while intoxicated; and
``(D) the number and nature of all other criminal offenses
committed in the United States by such individual.
``(2) The Secretary shall submit an annual report to the
Congress on the incidents occurring during the preceding
year. The report shall include the information maintained
under paragraph (1) together with information under section
1706(a).
``(b) Education and Encouragement of Local Law Enforcement
Individuals.--The Secretary shall take such steps as may be
necessary--
``(1) to educate local law enforcement officials on the
extent of the immunity from criminal jurisdiction provided to
members of a foreign mission, and family members of such
members, under the Vienna Convention; and
``(2) to encourage local law enforcement officials to fully
investigate, charge, and prosecute, to the extent consistent
with immunity from criminal jurisdiction under the Vienna
Convention, any member of a foreign mission, and any family
member of such a member, who commits a serious criminal
offense within the United States.
``(c) Interference With Local Prosecutions.--No officer or
employee of the Department of State may interfere with any
investigation, charge, or prosecution by a State or local
government of--
``(1) an alien who is a member of a foreign mission,
``(2) a family member of an alien described in subparagraph
(A), or
``(3) any other alien, not covered by immunity from the
criminal jurisdiction of the United States under the Vienna
Convention.
``(d) Notification of diplomatic Corps.--The Secretary
shall notify the members of each foreign mission of United
States policies relating to criminal offenses (particularly
crimes of violence) committed by such members, and the family
members of such members, including the policy of obtaining
criminal indictments, requiring such members to leave the
country, and declaring such members persona non grata.
``(e) Vienna Convention.--For the purposes of this section,
the term `Vienna Convention means the Vienna Convention on
Diplomatic Relations of April 18, 1961 (TIAS numbered 7502;
23 UST 3227), entered into force with respect to the United
States on December 13, 1972.''.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the amendment offered by
the gentleman from Colorado [Mr. Hefley].
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
recorded vote
Mr. SERRANO. 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 386,
noes 42, answered ``present'' 1, not voting 5, as follows:
[Roll No. 184]
AYES--386
Abercrombie
Ackerman
Aderholt
Allen
Andrews
Archer
Armey
Bachus
Baesler
Baker
Baldacci
Ballenger
Barcia
Barr
Barrett (NE)
Bartlett
Barton
Bass
Bateman
Bentsen
Bereuter
[[Page H3690]]
Berry
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop
Blagojevich
Bliley
Blumenauer
Blunt
Boehlert
Boehner
Bonilla
Bono
Boswell
Boucher
Boyd
Brady
Brown (FL)
Brown (OH)
Bryant
Bunning
Burr
Burton
Buyer
Callahan
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Canady
Cannon
Capps
Cardin
Carson
Castle
Chabot
Chambliss
Chenoweth
Christensen
Clement
Clyburn
Coble
Coburn
Collins
Combest
Condit
Conyers
Cook
Cooksey
Costello
Cox
Coyne
Cramer
Crane
Crapo
Cubin
Cummings
Cunningham
Danner
Davis (FL)
Davis (IL)
Davis (VA)
Deal
DeFazio
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
DeLay
Deutsch
Diaz-Balart
Dickey
Dicks
Doggett
Dooley
Doolittle
Doyle
Dreier
Duncan
Dunn
Edwards
Ehlers
Ehrlich
Emerson
Engel
English
Ensign
Eshoo
Etheridge
Evans
Everett
Ewing
Fawell
Fazio
Foley
Ford
Fowler
Fox
Frank (MA)
Franks (NJ)
Frelinghuysen
Frost
Furse
Gallegly
Ganske
Gejdenson
Gekas
Gephardt
Gibbons
Gilchrest
Gillmor
Gilman
Gonzalez
Goode
Goodlatte
Goodling
Gordon
Goss
Graham
Granger
Green
Greenwood
Gutierrez
Gutknecht
Hall (OH)
Hall (TX)
Hansen
Harman
Hastert
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Hefley
Hefner
Herger
Hill
Hilleary
Hilliard
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hobson
Hoekstra
Holden
Hooley
Horn
Hostettler
Houghton
Hoyer
Hulshof
Hunter
Hutchinson
Hyde
Inglis
Istook
Jackson (IL)
Jefferson
Jenkins
John
Johnson (CT)
Johnson (WI)
Johnson, E.B.
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kasich
Kelly
Kennedy (MA)
Kennedy (RI)
Kennelly
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kim
Kind (WI)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kleczka
Klink
Klug
Knollenberg
Kolbe
Kucinich
LaFalce
LaHood
Lampson
Lantos
Largent
Latham
LaTourette
Lazio
Leach
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Lipinski
Livingston
LoBiondo
Lofgren
Lowey
Lucas
Luther
Maloney (CT)
Maloney (NY)
Manton
Manzullo
Markey
Mascara
Matsui
McCarthy (MO)
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McCrery
McDade
McGovern
McHale
McHugh
McInnis
McIntosh
McIntyre
McKeon
McNulty
Meehan
Menendez
Metcalf
Mica
Miller (CA)
Miller (FL)
Minge
Moakley
Mollohan
Moran (KS)
Moran (VA)
Morella
Myrick
Nadler
Neal
Nethercutt
Neumann
Ney
Northup
Norwood
Nussle
Oberstar
Olver
Ortiz
Oxley
Packard
Pallone
Pappas
Parker
Pascrell
Pastor
Paul
Paxon
Pease
Pelosi
Peterson (MN)
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pickering
Pickett
Pitts
Pombo
Pomeroy
Porter
Portman
Poshard
Price (NC)
Pryce (OH)
Quinn
Radanovich
Ramstad
Rangel
Redmond
Regula
Reyes
Riggs
Riley
Rivers
Rodriguez
Roemer
Rogan
Rogers
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Rothman
Roukema
Royce
Ryun
Sabo
Salmon
Sanchez
Sandlin
Sanford
Sawyer
Saxton
Scarborough
Schaefer, Dan
Schaffer, Bob
Schumer
Scott
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shadegg
Shaw
Shays
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuster
Sisisky
Skaggs
Skeen
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (MI)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (OR)
Smith (TX)
Smith, Adam
Smith, Linda
Snowbarger
Solomon
Souder
Spence
Spratt
Stabenow
Stark
Stearns
Stenholm
Strickland
Stump
Stupak
Sununu
Talent
Tanner
Tauscher
Tauzin
Taylor (MS)
Taylor (NC)
Thomas
Thompson
Thornberry
Thune
Thurman
Tiahrt
Torres
Traficant
Turner
Upton
Vento
Walsh
Wamp
Watkins
Watts (OK)
Weldon (FL)
Weldon (PA)
Weller
Wexler
Weygand
White
Whitfield
Wicker
Wise
Wolf
Wynn
Yates
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
NOES--42
Barrett (WI)
Becerra
Berman
Bonior
Borski
Brown (CA)
Clay
Clayton
Dellums
Dingell
Dixon
Fattah
Foglietta
Hamilton
Hastings (FL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Lewis (GA)
Martinez
McDermott
McKinney
Meek
Millender-McDonald
Mink
Murtha
Obey
Owens
Payne
Rahall
Roybal-Allard
Rush
Sanders
Serrano
Snyder
Stokes
Tierney
Towns
Velazquez
Visclosky
Waters
Watt (NC)
Waxman
Woolsey
ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1
Filner
NOT VOTING--5
Farr
Flake
Forbes
Molinari
Schiff
{time} 1422
Mrs. CLAYTON changed her vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
Mr. SAWYER and Mr. NADLER changed their vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Parliamentary Inquiry
Mr. HYDE. Mr. Speaker, I have a parliamentary inquiry.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Goodlatte). The gentleman will state it.
Mr. HYDE. Mr. Speaker, I just wonder if we could not take all of
these votes on these amendments by sample, rather than actually taking
them.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the next amendment
on which a separate vote has been demanded.
The text of the amendment is as follows:
Amendment offered by Mr. Bachus:
At the end of chapter 1 of title XII (relating to
Department of State authorities and activities) insert the
following new section:
SEC. 1221. REPORT ON OVERSEAS SURPLUS PROPERTIES.
(a) Report to Congress.--Not later than March 1 of each
year, the Secretary of State shall submit to the Congress a
report listing overseas United States surplus properties for
sale.
(b) Use of Funds Received From Sale of Overseas Surplus
Properties.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
amounts received by the United States from the sale of any
overseas United States surplus property shall be deposited in
the Treasury of the United States to be used to reduce the
deficit.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the amendment offered by
the gentleman from Alabama [Mr. Bachus].
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
Recorded Vote
Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 283,
noes 146, not voting 5, as follows:
[Roll No. 185]
AYES--283
Abercrombie
Aderholt
Andrews
Archer
Bachus
Baesler
Baker
Baldacci
Ballenger
Barcia
Barr
Barrett (NE)
Barrett (WI)
Bartlett
Barton
Bass
Bateman
Berry
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop
Bliley
Blunt
Boehner
Bonilla
Bono
Boswell
Brady
Bryant
Bunning
Burr
Burton
Buyer
Callahan
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Canady
Cannon
Carson
Chabot
Chambliss
Chenoweth
Christensen
Coble
Coburn
Collins
Combest
Condit
Cook
Cooksey
Costello
Cox
Cramer
Crane
Crapo
Cubin
Cummings
Cunningham
Danner
Davis (VA)
Deal
DeLay
Diaz-Balart
Dickey
Doggett
Doolittle
Doyle
Dreier
Duncan
Dunn
Edwards
Ehlers
Ehrlich
Emerson
English
Ensign
Eshoo
Etheridge
Evans
Everett
Ewing
Fawell
Foley
Fowler
Fox
Frank (MA)
Franks (NJ)
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly
Ganske
Gekas
Gibbons
Gilchrest
Gillmor
Goode
Goodlatte
Goodling
Gordon
Goss
Graham
Granger
Green
Greenwood
Gutknecht
Hall (TX)
Hansen
Harman
Hastert
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Hefley
Hefner
Herger
Hill
Hilleary
Hobson
Hoekstra
Holden
Hooley
Hostettler
Hulshof
Hunter
Hutchinson
Hyde
Inglis
Istook
Jenkins
John
Johnson (WI)
Jones
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kasich
Kelly
Kennedy (RI)
Kildee
Kim
Kind (WI)
Kingston
Kleczka
Klink
Klug
Knollenberg
Lampson
Largent
Latham
LaTourette
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Lipinski
Livingston
LoBiondo
Lucas
Luther
Maloney (CT)
Maloney (NY)
Manzullo
Mascara
McCarthy (MO)
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McCrery
McDade
McHale
McHugh
McInnis
McIntosh
McIntyre
McKeon
Metcalf
Mica
Miller (FL)
Minge
Moran (KS)
Myrick
Neal
Nethercutt
Neumann
Ney
Northup
Norwood
Nussle
Obey
Ortiz
Oxley
Packard
Pappas
Parker
Pascrell
Pastor
Paul
Paxon
Pease
Peterson (MN)
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pickering
Pickett
Pitts
Pombo
Portman
Poshard
Price (NC)
Pryce (OH)
Quinn
Radanovich
Ramstad
Redmond
Riggs
Riley
Rivers
Roemer
Rogan
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Rothman
Royce
Ryun
Salmon
Sanchez
Sandlin
Sanford
Saxton
[[Page H3691]]
Scarborough
Schaefer, Dan
Schaffer, Bob
Schumer
Scott
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shadegg
Shaw
Shays
Shimkus
Shuster
Sisisky
Skeen
Skelton
Smith (OR)
Smith (TX)
Smith, Linda
Snowbarger
Solomon
Souder
Spence
Stabenow
Stearns
Stenholm
Strickland
Stump
Sununu
Talent
Tanner
Tauscher
Tauzin
Taylor (MS)
Taylor (NC)
Thomas
Thornberry
Thune
Thurman
Tiahrt
Tierney
Traficant
Turner
Upton
Vento
Walsh
Wamp
Watkins
Watts (OK)
Weldon (FL)
Weldon (PA)
Weller
Weygand
White
Whitfield
Wicker
Wolf
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
NOES--146
Ackerman
Allen
Armey
Becerra
Bentsen
Bereuter
Berman
Blagojevich
Blumenauer
Boehlert
Bonior
Borski
Boucher
Boyd
Brown (CA)
Brown (FL)
Brown (OH)
Capps
Cardin
Castle
Clay
Clayton
Clement
Clyburn
Conyers
Coyne
Davis (FL)
Davis (IL)
DeFazio
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
Dellums
Deutsch
Dicks
Dingell
Dixon
Dooley
Engel
Fattah
Fazio
Filner
Foglietta
Ford
Frost
Furse
Gejdenson
Gephardt
Gilman
Gonzalez
Gutierrez
Hall (OH)
Hamilton
Hastings (FL)
Hilliard
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Horn
Houghton
Hoyer
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
Johnson (CT)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Kennedy (MA)
Kennelly
Kilpatrick
King (NY)
Kolbe
Kucinich
LaFalce
LaHood
Lantos
Lazio
Leach
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lofgren
Lowey
Manton
Markey
Martinez
Matsui
McDermott
McGovern
McKinney
McNulty
Meehan
Meek
Menendez
Millender-McDonald
Miller (CA)
Mink
Moakley
Mollohan
Moran (VA)
Morella
Murtha
Nadler
Oberstar
Olver
Owens
Pallone
Payne
Pelosi
Pomeroy
Porter
Rahall
Rangel
Regula
Reyes
Rodriguez
Rogers
Roukema
Roybal-Allard
Rush
Sabo
Sanders
Sawyer
Serrano
Sherman
Skaggs
Slaughter
Smith (MI)
Smith (NJ)
Smith, Adam
Snyder
Spratt
Stark
Stokes
Stupak
Thompson
Torres
Towns
Velazquez
Visclosky
Waters
Watt (NC)
Waxman
Wexler
Wise
Woolsey
Wynn
Yates
NOT VOTING--5
Farr
Flake
Forbes
Molinari
Schiff
{time} 1434
Mrs. KENNELLY of Connecticut changed her vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
Messrs. NEAL of Massachusetts, FRELINGHUYSEN, SCOTT, and PAXON
changed their vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the following
amendments be considered en bloc: The so-called Gilman en bloc
amendment regarding consular service duties, the so-called Coburn
amendment regarding world heritage programs, the so-called Gilman
amendment en bloc regarding Peru and Ethiopia, and the so-called Smith
amendment regarding impediments to the delivery of aid.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Goodlatte). Is there objection to the
request of the gentleman from New York?
Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Speaker, I object.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Objection is heard.
The Clerk will designate the next amendment on which a separate vote
has been demanded.
The text of the amendments is as follows:
Amendments offered by Mr. Gilman:
Page 120, strike line 11 and all that follows through line
18, and insert the following:
(a) Persons Authorized To Issue Reports of Births Abroad.--
Section 33 of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of
1956 (22 U.S.C. 2705) is amended in paragraph (2) by adding
at the end the following: ``For purposes of this paragraph, a
consular officer shall include any United States citizen
employee of the Department of State designated by the
Secretary of State to adjudicate nationality abroad pursuant
to such regulations as he may prescribe.''.
Page 121, after line 17, insert the following:
(e) Definition of Consular Officer.--Section 101(a)(9) of
the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(9)) is
amended by--
(1) inserting ``or employee'' after ``officer''; and
(2) inserting before the period at the end of the sentence
``or, when used in title III, for the purpose of adjudicating
nationality''.
(f) Training for Employees Performing Consular Functions.--
Section 704 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C.
4024) is amended by adding at the end the following new
subsection:
``(d) Prior to designation by the Secretary of State
pursuant to regulation to perform a consular function abroad,
a United States citizen employee (other than a diplomatic or
consular officer of the United States) shall be required to
complete successfully a program of training essentially
equivalent to the training that a consular officer who is a
member of the Foreign Service would receive for purposes of
performing such function and shall be certified by an
appropriate official of the Department of State to be
qualified by knowledge and experience to perform such
function. As used in this subsection, the term `consular
function' includes the issuance of visas, the performance of
notarial and other legalization functions, the adjudication
of passport applications, the adjudication of nationality,
and the issuance of citizenship documentation.''.
section 1304--establishment of assistant secretary of state for
diplomatic security
On page 127 line 20 insert after security ``and
management''.
section 1321--authorized strength of the foreign service
On page 130 line 5 delete 1070 and insert in its place
1,210.
On page 130 line 6 delete 140 and insert in its place 150.
On page 130 line 17 delete 1065 and insert in its place
1,182.
On page 130 line 18 delete 135 and insert in its place 147.
____
Strike section 1702 of division B, page 163, line 3 to page
164, line 3, and insert the following new section (and
renumber the subsequent sections accordingly and conform the
table of contents accordingly).
SEC. 1702. UNITED STATES POLICY WITH RESPECT TO THE
INVOLUNTARY RETURN OF PERSONS IN DANGER OF
SUBJECTION TO TORTURE.
(a) Policy.--It shall be the policy of the United States
that the United States shall not expel, extradite, or
otherwise effect the involuntary return of any person to a
country in which there are substantial grounds for believing
that the person would be in danger of being subjected to
torture, regardless of whether the person is physically
present in the United States.
(b) Definitions.--Except as otherwise provided, terms used
in this section have the meanings assigned under the United
Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, subject to any
reservations, understandings, declarations and provisos
contained in the United States resolution of advice and
consent to ratification of such Convention.
(c) Procedures.--Procedures shall be established to ensure
compliance with subsection (a) in the cases of aliens who are
arriving in the United States or who are physically present
in the United States and who are subject to removal.
(d) Review and Construction.--Notwithstanding any other
provision of law, no court shall have jurisdiction to review
the procedures adopted to implement this section, and nothing
in this section shall be construed as providing any court
jurisdiction to review claims raised under the Convention or
this section, or any other determination made with respect to
the application of the policy set forth in subsection (a),
except as part of the review of a final order of removal
pursuant to section 242 of the Immigration and Nationality
Act, as amended.
____
Strike section 1712 and insert the following:
SEC. 1712. SENSE OF CONGRESS RELATING TO RECOGNITION OF THE
ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE BY THE GOVERNMENT OF
TURKEY.
It is the sense of Congress that the United States should
use its influence with the Turkish Government and as a
permanent member of the United Nations Security Council to
suggest that the Turkish Government--
(1) recognize the Ecumenical Patriarchate and its
nonpolitical, religious mission;
(2) ensure the continued maintenance of the institution's
physical security needs, as provided for under Turkish and
international law, including but not limited to, the Treaty
of Lausanne, the 1968 Protocol, the Helsinki Final Act
(1975), and the Charter of Paris;
(3) provide for the proper protection and safety of the
Ecumenical Patriarch and Patriarchate personnel; and
(4) reopen the Ecumenical Patriarchate's Halki Patriarchal
School of Theology.
Page 183, line 1, strike ``cases and the'' and insert
``cases through the provision of records and the unilateral
and joint''.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the amendments offered by
the gentleman from New York [Mr. Gilman].
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
recorded vote
Mr. SERRANO. 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 428,
noes 0, not voting 6, as follows:
[[Page H3692]]
[Roll No. 186]
AYES--428
Abercrombie
Ackerman
Aderholt
Allen
Andrews
Archer
Armey
Bachus
Baesler
Baker
Baldacci
Ballenger
Barcia
Barr
Barrett (NE)
Barrett (WI)
Bartlett
Barton
Bass
Bateman
Becerra
Bentsen
Bereuter
Berman
Berry
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop
Blagojevich
Bliley
Blumenauer
Blunt
Boehlert
Boehner
Bonilla
Bonior
Bono
Borski
Boswell
Boucher
Boyd
Brady
Brown (CA)
Brown (FL)
Brown (OH)
Bryant
Bunning
Burr
Burton
Buyer
Callahan
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Canady
Cannon
Capps
Cardin
Carson
Castle
Chabot
Chambliss
Chenoweth
Christensen
Clay
Clayton
Clement
Clyburn
Coble
Coburn
Collins
Combest
Condit
Conyers
Cook
Cooksey
Costello
Coyne
Cramer
Crane
Crapo
Cubin
Cummings
Cunningham
Danner
Davis (FL)
Davis (IL)
Davis (VA)
Deal
DeFazio
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
DeLay
Dellums
Deutsch
Diaz-Balart
Dickey
Dicks
Dingell
Dixon
Doggett
Dooley
Doolittle
Doyle
Dreier
Duncan
Dunn
Edwards
Ehlers
Ehrlich
Emerson
Engel
English
Ensign
Eshoo
Etheridge
Evans
Everett
Ewing
Fattah
Fawell
Fazio
Filner
Foglietta
Foley
Ford
Fowler
Fox
Frank (MA)
Franks (NJ)
Frelinghuysen
Frost
Furse
Gallegly
Ganske
Gejdenson
Gekas
Gephardt
Gibbons
Gilchrest
Gillmor
Gilman
Gonzalez
Goode
Goodlatte
Goodling
Gordon
Goss
Graham
Granger
Green
Greenwood
Gutierrez
Gutknecht
Hall (OH)
Hall (TX)
Hamilton
Hansen
Harman
Hastert
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Hefley
Hefner
Herger
Hill
Hilleary
Hilliard
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hobson
Hoekstra
Holden
Hooley
Horn
Hostettler
Houghton
Hoyer
Hulshof
Hunter
Hutchinson
Hyde
Inglis
Istook
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
Jenkins
John
Johnson (CT)
Johnson (WI)
Johnson, E.B.
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kasich
Kelly
Kennedy (MA)
Kennedy (RI)
Kennelly
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kim
Kind (WI)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kleczka
Klink
Klug
Knollenberg
Kolbe
Kucinich
LaFalce
LaHood
Lampson
Lantos
Largent
Latham
LaTourette
Lazio
Leach
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Lipinski
Livingston
LoBiondo
Lofgren
Lowey
Lucas
Luther
Maloney (CT)
Maloney (NY)
Manton
Manzullo
Markey
Martinez
Mascara
Matsui
McCarthy (MO)
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McCrery
McDade
McDermott
McGovern
McHale
McHugh
McInnis
McIntosh
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinney
McNulty
Meehan
Meek
Menendez
Metcalf
Mica
Millender-McDonald
Miller (CA)
Miller (FL)
Minge
Mink
Moakley
Mollohan
Moran (KS)
Moran (VA)
Morella
Murtha
Myrick
Nadler
Neal
Nethercutt
Neumann
Ney
Northup
Norwood
Nussle
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Owens
Oxley
Packard
Pallone
Pappas
Parker
Pascrell
Pastor
Paul
Paxon
Payne
Pease
Pelosi
Peterson (MN)
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pickering
Pickett
Pitts
Pombo
Pomeroy
Porter
Portman
Poshard
Price (NC)
Pryce (OH)
Quinn
Radanovich
Rahall
Ramstad
Rangel
Redmond
Regula
Reyes
Riggs
Riley
Rivers
Rodriguez
Roemer
Rogan
Rogers
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Rothman
Roukema
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Rush
Ryun
Sabo
Salmon
Sanchez
Sanders
Sandlin
Sanford
Sawyer
Saxton
Scarborough
Schaefer, Dan
Schaffer, Bob
Schumer
Scott
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sessions
Shadegg
Shaw
Shays
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuster
Sisisky
Skaggs
Skeen
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (MI)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (OR)
Smith (TX)
Smith, Adam
Smith, Linda
Snowbarger
Snyder
Solomon
Souder
Spence
Spratt
Stabenow
Stark
Stearns
Stenholm
Stokes
Strickland
Stump
Stupak
Sununu
Talent
Tanner
Tauscher
Tauzin
Taylor (MS)
Taylor (NC)
Thomas
Thompson
Thornberry
Thune
Thurman
Tiahrt
Tierney
Torres
Towns
Traficant
Turner
Upton
Velazquez
Vento
Visclosky
Walsh
Wamp
Waters
Watkins
Watt (NC)
Watts (OK)
Waxman
Weldon (FL)
Weldon (PA)
Weller
Wexler
Weygand
White
Whitfield
Wicker
Wise
Wolf
Woolsey
Wynn
Yates
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
NOT VOTING--6
Cox
Farr
Flake
Forbes
Molinari
Schiff
{time} 1444
Mr. RANGEL changed his vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
So the amendments were agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the next amendment
on which a separate vote has been demanded.
The Clerk read as follows:
Amendment offered by Mr. Goss:
Page 139, strike line 19 and all that follows through line
10 on page 141 (and conform the table of contents
accordingly).
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the amendment offered by
the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Goss].
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
recorded vote
Mr. SERRANO. 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 226,
noes 201, not voting 7, as follows:
[Roll No. 187]
AYES--226
Aderholt
Archer
Armey
Bachus
Baker
Ballenger
Barcia
Barr
Barrett (NE)
Bartlett
Barton
Bass
Bateman
Bereuter
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bliley
Blunt
Boehlert
Boehner
Bonilla
Bono
Brady
Bryant
Bunning
Burr
Burton
Buyer
Callahan
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Canady
Cannon
Castle
Chabot
Chambliss
Chenoweth
Christensen
Coble
Coburn
Collins
Combest
Cook
Cooksey
Cox
Crane
Crapo
Cubin
Cunningham
Davis (VA)
Deal
DeLay
Diaz-Balart
Dickey
Dicks
Doolittle
Dreier
Duncan
Dunn
Ehlers
Ehrlich
Emerson
English
Ensign
Everett
Ewing
Fawell
Foley
Fowler
Fox
Franks (NJ)
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly
Ganske
Gekas
Gibbons
Gilchrest
Gillmor
Gilman
Goodlatte
Goodling
Goss
Graham
Granger
Greenwood
Gutknecht
Hall (TX)
Hansen
Hastert
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Hefley
Herger
Hill
Hilleary
Hobson
Hoekstra
Horn
Hostettler
Houghton
Hulshof
Hutchinson
Hyde
Inglis
Istook
Jenkins
Johnson (CT)
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Kasich
Kelly
Kim
King (NY)
Kingston
Klug
Knollenberg
Kolbe
LaHood
Largent
Latham
LaTourette
Lazio
Leach
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Livingston
LoBiondo
Lucas
Manzullo
McCollum
McCrery
McDade
McHugh
McInnis
McIntosh
McKeon
Metcalf
Mica
Miller (FL)
Moran (KS)
Moran (VA)
Morella
Myrick
Nethercutt
Neumann
Ney
Northup
Norwood
Nussle
Oxley
Packard
Pappas
Parker
Paul
Paxon
Pease
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pickering
Pitts
Pombo
Porter
Portman
Pryce (OH)
Quinn
Radanovich
Ramstad
Redmond
Regula
Riley
Rogan
Rogers
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Roukema
Royce
Ryun
Salmon
Sanford
Saxton
Scarborough
Schaefer, Dan
Schaffer, Bob
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shadegg
Shaw
Shays
Shimkus
Shuster
Skeen
Smith (MI)
Smith (OR)
Smith (TX)
Smith, Linda
Snowbarger
Solomon
Souder
Spence
Stearns
Stump
Sununu
Talent
Tauzin
Taylor (NC)
Thomas
Thornberry
Thune
Tiahrt
Traficant
Upton
Walsh
Wamp
Watkins
Watts (OK)
Weldon (FL)
Weldon (PA)
Weller
White
Whitfield
Wicker
Wolf
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
NOES--201
Abercrombie
Ackerman
Allen
Andrews
Baesler
Baldacci
Barrett (WI)
Becerra
Bentsen
Berman
Berry
Bishop
Blagojevich
Blumenauer
Bonior
Borski
Boswell
Boucher
Boyd
Brown (CA)
Brown (FL)
Brown (OH)
Capps
Cardin
Carson
Clay
Clayton
Clement
Clyburn
Condit
Conyers
Costello
Coyne
Cramer
Cummings
Danner
Davis (FL)
Davis (IL)
DeFazio
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
Dellums
Deutsch
Dingell
Dixon
Doggett
Dooley
Doyle
Edwards
Engel
Eshoo
Etheridge
Evans
Fattah
Fazio
Filner
Foglietta
Ford
Frank (MA)
Frost
Furse
Gejdenson
Gephardt
Gonzalez
Goode
Gordon
Green
Gutierrez
Hall (OH)
Hamilton
Harman
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Hastings (FL)
Hefner
Hilliard
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Holden
Hooley
Hoyer
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
John
Johnson (WI)
Johnson, E. B.
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kennedy (MA)
Kennedy (RI)
Kennelly
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kind (WI)
Kleczka
Klink
Kucinich
LaFalce
Lampson
Lantos
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
Lofgren
Lowey
Luther
Maloney (CT)
Maloney (NY)
Manton
Markey
Martinez
Mascara
Matsui
McCarthy (MO)
McCarthy (NY)
McDermott
McGovern
McHale
McIntyre
McKinney
McNulty
Meehan
Meek
Menendez
Millender-McDonald
Miller (CA)
Minge
Mink
Moakley
Mollohan
Murtha
Nadler
Neal
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Owens
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor
Payne
Pelosi
Peterson (MN)
Pickett
Pomeroy
Poshard
Price (NC)
Rahall
Rangel
Reyes
Rivers
Rodriguez
Roemer
Rothman
Roybal-Allard
Rush
Sabo
Sanchez
Sanders
Sandlin
Sawyer
Schumer
Scott
Serrano
Sherman
Sisisky
Skaggs
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (NJ)
Smith, Adam
Snyder
Spratt
Stabenow
Stark
Stenholm
Stokes
Strickland
Stupak
Tanner
Tauscher
Taylor (MS)
Thompson
Thurman
Tierney
Torres
Towns
Turner
Velazquez
Vento
Visclosky
Waters
Watt (NC)
Waxman
Wexler
Weygand
Wise
Woolsey
Wynn
Yates
NOT VOTING--7
Farr
Flake
Forbes
Hunter
Molinari
Riggs
Schiff
{time} 1453
Mr. TAYLOR of Mississippi changed his vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
Mr. BOEHLERT and Mr. MORAN of Virginia changed their vote from ``no''
to ``aye.''
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
PERSONAL EXPLANATION
Mr. RIGGS. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 187 I was inadvertently
detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes''.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Goodlatte). The Clerk will designate the
next amendment on which a separate vote has been demanded.
The text of the amendment is as follows:
Amendment offered by Mr. Coburn:
At the end of title XV insert the following new section:
SEC. 1525. PROHIBITION ON FUNDING FOR UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE
AND MAN AND BIOSPHERE PROGRAMS.
None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act
may be made available to the Man and Biosphere (MAB) Program
or the World Heritage Program administered by the United
Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO).
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the amendment offered by
the gentleman from Oklahoma [Mr. Coburn].
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
recorded vote
Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 222,
noes 202, not voting 10, as follows:
[Roll No. 188]
AYES--222
Aderholt
Archer
Armey
Baesler
Baker
Ballenger
Barcia
Barr
Barrett (NE)
Bartlett
Barton
Bass
Bateman
Berry
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Blagojevich
Bliley
Blunt
Boehlert
Boehner
Bonilla
Bono
Brady
Bryant
Bunning
Burr
Burton
Buyer
Callahan
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Canady
Cannon
Chabot
Chambliss
Chenoweth
Christensen
Coble
Coburn
Collins
Combest
Condit
Cook
Cooksey
Cox
Crane
Crapo
Cubin
Cunningham
Danner
Deal
Delahunt
DeLay
Diaz-Balart
Dickey
Doolittle
Dreier
Duncan
Dunn
Ehrlich
Emerson
Ensign
Everett
Ewing
Foley
Fowler
Fox
Gallegly
Ganske
Gekas
Gibbons
Gillmor
Gilman
Goode
Goodlatte
Goodling
Goss
Graham
Granger
Green
Greenwood
Gutknecht
Hall (TX)
Hansen
Hastert
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Hefley
Herger
Hill
Hilleary
Hobson
Hoekstra
Hostettler
Houghton
Hulshof
Hunter
Hutchinson
Hyde
Inglis
Istook
Jenkins
Johnson (CT)
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Kasich
Kelly
Kim
King (NY)
Kingston
Kleczka
Knollenberg
LaHood
Lampson
Latham
LaTourette
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Livingston
LoBiondo
Lucas
Manzullo
McCollum
McCrery
McDade
McHugh
McInnis
McIntosh
McIntyre
McKeon
Metcalf
Mica
Miller (FL)
Moran (KS)
Myrick
Nethercutt
Neumann
Ney
Northup
Norwood
Nussle
Oxley
Packard
Pappas
Parker
Paul
Paxon
Pease
Peterson (MN)
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pickering
Pitts
Pombo
Portman
Pryce (OH)
Quinn
Radanovich
Redmond
Regula
Riggs
Riley
Rogan
Rogers
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Royce
Ryun
Salmon
Sanford
Scarborough
Schaefer, Dan
Schaffer, Bob
Scott
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shadegg
Shaw
Shays
Shimkus
Shuster
Skeen
Smith (MI)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (OR)
Smith (TX)
Smith, Linda
Snowbarger
Solomon
Souder
Spence
Stearns
Stenholm
Stump
Sununu
Talent
Tauzin
Taylor (MS)
Taylor (NC)
Thomas
Thornberry
Thune
Tiahrt
Traficant
Turner
Upton
Walsh
Wamp
Watkins
Watts (OK)
Weldon (FL)
Weldon (PA)
Weller
White
Whitfield
Wicker
Wolf
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
NOES--202
Abercrombie
Allen
Andrews
Baldacci
Barrett (WI)
Becerra
Bentsen
Bereuter
Berman
Bishop
Blumenauer
Bonior
Borski
Boswell
Boucher
Boyd
Brown (CA)
Brown (FL)
Brown (OH)
Capps
Cardin
Carson
Castle
Clay
Clayton
Clement
Clyburn
Conyers
Costello
Coyne
Cramer
Cummings
Davis (FL)
Davis (IL)
Davis (VA)
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
Dellums
Deutsch
Dicks
Dingell
Dixon
Doggett
Dooley
Doyle
Edwards
Ehlers
Engel
English
Eshoo
Etheridge
Evans
Fattah
Fawell
Fazio
Filner
Foglietta
Ford
Frank (MA)
Franks (NJ)
Frelinghuysen
Frost
Furse
Gejdenson
Gephardt
Gilchrest
Gonzalez
Gordon
Gutierrez
Hall (OH)
Hamilton
Harman
Hastings (FL)
Hefner
Hilliard
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Holden
Hooley
Horn
Hoyer
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
John
Johnson (WI)
Johnson, E. B.
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kennedy (MA)
Kennedy (RI)
Kennelly
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kind (WI)
Klink
Klug
Kolbe
Kucinich
LaFalce
Lantos
Lazio
Leach
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
Lofgren
Lowey
Luther
Maloney (CT)
Maloney (NY)
Manton
Markey
Mascara
Matsui
McCarthy (MO)
McCarthy (NY)
McDermott
McGovern
McHale
McKinney
McNulty
Meehan
Meek
Menendez
Millender-McDonald
Miller (CA)
Minge
Mink
Moakley
Mollohan
Moran (VA)
Morella
Murtha
Nadler
Neal
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Owens
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor
Payne
Pelosi
Pickett
Pomeroy
Porter
Poshard
Price (NC)
Rahall
Ramstad
Reyes
Rivers
Rodriguez
Roemer
Rothman
Roukema
Roybal-Allard
Rush
Sabo
Sanchez
Sanders
Sandlin
Sawyer
Saxton
Schumer
Serrano
Sherman
Sisisky
Skaggs
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith, Adam
Snyder
Spratt
Stabenow
Stark
Stokes
Strickland
Stupak
Tanner
Tauscher
Thompson
Thurman
Tierney
Torres
Towns
Velazquez
Vento
Visclosky
Waters
Watt (NC)
Waxman
Wexler
Weygand
Wise
Woolsey
Wynn
Yates
NOT VOTING--10
Ackerman
Bachus
Farr
Flake
Forbes
Largent
Martinez
Molinari
Rangel
Schiff
{time} 1504
Mr. SAXTON, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHSON of Texas, Mrs. ROUKEMA and Ms.
BROWN of Florida changed their vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
Mr. CONDIT and Mr. PETERSON of Minnesota changed their vote from
``no'' to ``aye.''
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Goodlatte). The Clerk will designate the
next amendment on which a separate vote has been demanded.
The text of the amendments is as follows:
Amendments offered by Mr. Gilman:
At the end of title XVII (relating to foreign policy
provision) add the following (and conform the table of
contents accordingly):
SEC. 1717. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS REGARDING UNITED STATES
CITIZENS HELD IN PRISONS IN PERU.
(a) Findings.--The Congress finds the following:
(1) The Government of Peru has made substantial progress in
the effort to restrict the flow of illicit drugs from Peru to
the United States.
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(2) The Government of Peru has cooperated greatly with the
United States Government to stop individuals and
organizations seeking to transport illicit drugs from Peru to
the United States and to jail such drug exporters.
(3) Any individual engaging in such exporting of illicit
drugs and convicted in a court of law should face stiff
penalties.
(4) Any such individual should also have a right to timely
legal procedures.
(5) Two United States citizens, Jennifer Davis and Krista
Barnes, were arrested in Peru on September 25, 1996, for
attempting to transport illicit drugs from Peru to the United
States.
(6) Ms. Davis and Ms. Barnes have admitted their guilt upon
arrest and to an investigative judge.
(7) Ms. Davis and Ms. Barnes have volunteered to cooperate
fully with Peruvian judicial authorities in naming
individuals responsible for drug trafficking and several have
been arrested.
(8) More than seven months after their arrest, Ms. Davis
and Ms. Barnes have not yet been formally charged with a
crime.
(9) Peruvian domestic law mandates that formal charges be
brought within four to six months after arrest.
(b) Sense of the Congress.--It is the sense of the Congress
that the Government of Peru should respect the rights of
prisoners to timely legal procedures, including the rights of
all United States citizens held in prisons in Peru.
____
Amendment to H.R. 1757, as Reported
Offered by Mr. Kennedy of Massachusetts
At the end of title XVII, insert the following:
SEC. 1717. SPECIAL ENVOYS FOR MUTUAL DISARMAMENT.
The President shall instruct the United States Ambassador
to the United Nations to support in the Security Council, the
General Assembly, and other United Nations bodies,
resolutions and other efforts to--
(1) appoint special envoys for conflict prevention to
organize and conduct, in cooperation with appropriate
multilateral institutions, mutual disarmament talks in every
region of the world in which all nations would participate,
and to report to international financial institutions on the
degree of cooperation of governments with these talks;
(2) commit each member state to agree to meet with its
regional special envoy within 3 months of appointment to
deliver and discuss its proposal for regional (and, where
appropriate, international) confidence-building measures,
including mutual reductions in the size, proximity, and
technological sophistication of its and other nations' armed
forces, that would lead to significant cuts in threat levels
and military spending; and
(3) commit each member state to agree to continue meeting
with the special envoy and such regional bodies and states as
the special envoy shall suggest to complete negotiations on
such confidence-building measures, with the goal of making
significant cuts in military spending by the year 2000.
Amendment to H.R. 1757, as Reported
Offered by Mr. Kim of California
At the end of title XVII (relating to foreign policy
provisions) insert the following new section:
SEC. 1717. SENSE OF CONGRESS RELATING TO THE TRANSFER OF
NUCLER WASTE FROM TAIWAN TO NORTH KOREA.
(a) Findings.--The Congress makes the following findings:
(1) The Republic of China on Taiwan (Taiwan) is considering
transferring low-level nuclear waste to the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and paying North
Korea an amount in excess of $220,000,000 to accept the
nuclear waste.
(2) The transfer of nuclear waste across international
boundaries creates worldwide environmental safety concerns.
(3) North Korea rejected the request of the International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to inspect 2 nuclear facilities
at Yongbyon in March 1993, in violation of Article III of the
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, to which
North Korea is a signatory.
(4) North Korea has historically been unwilling to allow
any third party investigators to inspect its nuclear waste
storage facilities.
(5) The failure of North Korea to store nuclear waste
safely raises environmental concerns on the Korean peninsula.
(6) The United States has in excess of 37,000 military
personnel, plus their families, on the Korean peninsula.
(7) The current North Korean regime has been linked to
numerous terrorist activities, including the bombing in 1987
of a Korean Airline aircraft, and the bombing in 1983 in
Rangoon, Burma, which killed 4 South Korean Government and 13
diplomatic officials.
(8) North Korea continues to be listed by the United States
Department of State as a state supporting international
terrorism.
(9) The several hundred million dollars of hard currency
generated by this transaction could be used by the militarist
regime in North Korea to continue their reign of terror over
their own people and the sovereign nations of the Pacific
Rim.
(b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of the Congress
that the Government of Taiwan should refrain from issuing an
export license for the transfer of nuclear waste to North
Korea until all parties on the Korean peninsula can be
assured that--
(1) North Korea can safely handle this nuclear waste;
(2) North Korea will submit to independent third party
inspection of their nuclear storage facilities; and
(3) North Korea indicates a willingness to comply with the
commitments it made in the ``Agreed Framework'', entered into
in 1994 between North Korea, South Korea, Japan, and the
United States, relating to nuclear materials and facilities
in North Korea, and meet International Atomic Energy Agency
safeguards with respect to North Korea's nuclear program.
Amendment to H.R. 1757, as Reported Offered by Mr. Pallone of New
Jersey
At the end of title XVII (relating to foreign policy
provisions) insert the following new section:
SEC. 1717. CONGRESSIONAL STATEMENT REGARDING PRIME MINISTER
GUJRAL OF INDIA.
(a) Findings.--The Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Prime Minister Gujral of India has recently received a
vote of confidence from the Indian parliament.
(2) Prime Minister Gujral is committed to strengthening
ties between the United States and India through the
continuation of free market reforms and initiatives.
(3) The Gujral government is on the verge of passing a
budget package that will carry forward economic reforms
initiated in 1991 that have opened India to foreign
investment and trade.
(4) Prime Minister Gujral has made it a priority to improve
relations with Pakistan and has recently met with the Prime
Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, to better relations
between the two countries.
(b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of the Congress
that the Clinton Administration should support and work
closely with Indian Prime Minister Gujral in strengthening
relations between the United States and India and improving
relations in the South Asia region.
Amendment to H.R. 1757, as Reported Offered by Mr. Pallone of New
Jersey
At the end of title XVII (relating to foreign policy
provisions) insert the following new section:
SEC. 1717. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING THE SOVEREIGNTY OF
BELARUS.
It is the sense of the Congress that the President should
strongly urge the Government of President Aleksandr
Lukashenka of the Republic of Belarus to defend the
sovereignty of Belarus, maintain its independence from the
Russian Federation, abide by the provisions of the Helsinki
Accords and the constitution of the Republic of Belarus and
guarantee freedom of the press, allow for the flowering of
the Belarusan language and culture, and enforce the
separation of powers.
Amendment to H.R. 1757, as Reported Offered by Mr. Rohrabacher of
California
At the end of title XVII (relating to foreign policy
provisions) insert the following new section:
SEC. 1717. CONGRESSIONAL STATEMENT REGARDING THE ACCESSION OF
TAIWAN TO THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION.
(a) Findings.--The Congress makes the following findings:
(1) The people of the United States and the people of the
Republic of China on Taiwan have long enjoyed extensive ties.
(2) Taiwan is currently the 8th largest trading partner of
the United States, and exports from the United States to
Taiwan total more than $18,000,000 annually, substantially
more than the United States exports to the People's Republic
of China.
(3) The executive branch has committed publicly to support
Taiwan's bid to join the World Trade Organization and has
declared that the United States will not oppose this bid
solely on the grounds that the People's Republic of China,
which also seeks membership in the World Trade Organization,
is not yet eligible because of its unacceptable trade
practices.
(4) The United States and Taiwan have concluded discussions
on a variety of outstanding trade issues that remain
unresolved with the People's Republic of China and that are
necessary for the United States to support Taiwan's
membership in the World Trade Organization.
(5) The reversion of control over Hong Kong--a member of
the World Trade Organization--to the People's Republic of
China, scheduled by treaty to occur on July 1, 1997, will, in
many respects, afford to the People's Republic of China the
practical benefit of membership in the World Trade
Organization for the substantial portion of its trade in
goods--despite the fact that the trade practices of the
People's Republic of China currently fall far short of what
the United States expects for membership in the World Trade
Organization.
(6) The executive branch has announced its interest in the
admission of the People's Republic of China to the World
Trade Organization; the fundamental sense of fairness of the
people of the United States warrants the United States
Government's support for Taiwan's relatively more meritorious
application for membership in the World Trade Organization.
(7) It is in the economic interest of United States
consumers and exporters for Taiwan to complete the
requirements for accession to the World Trade Organization at
the earliest possible moment.
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(b) Congressional Statement.--The Congress favors public
support by officials of the Department of State for the
accession of Taiwan to the World Trade Organization.
Amendment to H.R. 1757, as Reported Offered by Mr. Vento of Minnesota
At the end of title XVII insert the following new section:
SEC. 1717. REPORTS AND POLICY CONCERNING HUMAN RIGHTS
VIOLATIONS IN LAOS.
Within 180 days after the date of the enactment of this
Act, the Secretary of State shall report to the appropriate
congressional committees on the allegations of persecution
and abuse of the Hmong and Laotian refugees who have returned
to Laos. The report shall include:
(1) A full investigation, including full documentation of
individual cases of persecution, of the Lao Government's
treatment of Hmong and Laotian refugees who have returned to
Laos.
(2) The steps the State Department will take to continue to
monitor any systematic human rights violations by the
Government of Laos.
(3) The actions which the State Department will take to
ensure the cessation of human rights violations.
Amendment to H.R. 1757 Offered by Mr. Menendez
At the end of the bill add the following (and conform the
table of contents accordingly):
TITLE . WITHHOLDING OF ASSISTANCE TO COUNTRIES THAT PROVIDE NUCLEAR
FUEL TO CUBA
(a) In General.--Section 620 of the Foreign Assistance Act
of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2370), as amended by this Act, is further
amended by adding at the end the following:
``(y)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the President
shall withhold from amounts made available under this Act or
any other Act and allocated for a country for a fiscal year
an amount equal to the aggregate value of nuclear fuel and
related assistance and credits provided by that country, or
any entity of that country, to Cuba during the preceding
fiscal year.
``(2) The requirement to withhold assistance for a country
for a fiscal year under paragraph (1) shall not apply if
Cuba--
``(A) has ratified the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of
Nuclear Weapons (21 UST 483) or the Treaty of Tlatelelco, and
Cuba is in compliance with the requirements of either such
Treaty;
``(B) has negotiated and is in compliance with full-scope
safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency not
later than two years after ratification by Cuba of such
Treaty; and
``(C) incorporates and is in compliance with
internationally accepted nuclear safety standards.
``(3) The Secretary of State shall prepare and submit to
the Congress each year a report containing a description of
the amount of nuclear fuel and related assistance and credits
provided by any country, or any entity of a country, to Cuba
during the preceding year, including the terms of each
transfer of such fuel, assistance, or credits.''.
(b) Effective Date.--Section 620(y) of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961, as added by subsection (a), shall
apply with respect to assistance provided in fiscal years
beginning on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.
Amendment Offered by Mr. Menendez
At the end of bill add the following (and conform the table
of contents accordingly):
Title . AVAILABILITY OF AMOUNTS FOR CUBAN LIBERTY AND DEMOCRATIC
SOLIDARITY ACT OF 1996 AND THE CUBAN DEMOCRACY ACT OF 1992
Not less than $2,000,000 shall be made available under Chapter 4 of
part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2346; relating
to economic support fund), for fiscal years 1998 to 1999 to carry out
the programs and activities under the Cuban Liberty and Democratic
Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 (22 U.S.C. 6021 et. seq.) and the
Cuban Democracy Act of 1992 (22 U.S.C. 2001 et. seq.)
Amendment to H.R. 1757 Offered by Mr. Gejdenson of Connecticut
Add the following new title to the end of the bill (and
adjust the table of contents accordingly)
Title
It is the sense of Congress and the President of the United
States should attempt to achieve the foreign policy goal of
an international arms sales code of conduct with all
Wassenaar Arrangement countries. The purpose of this goal
shall be to achieve an agreement on restricting or
prohibiting arms transfers to countries that:
(1) Do not respect democratic processes and the rule of
law;
(2) Do not adhere to internationally-recognized norms on
human rights; or
(3) Are engaged in acts of armed aggression.
Amendment to H.R. 1757 Offered by Mr. Traficant of Ohio
At the end of the bill add the following (and conform the
table of contents accordingly):
DIVISION C--BUY-AMERICAN REQUIREMENTS
SEC. 2001. BUY-AMERICAN REQUIREMENTS.
(A) Compliance With Buy American Act.--None of the funds
made available in this Act may be expended by an entity
unless the entity agrees that is expending the funds the
entity will consistent with International Trade Agreements
implemented in U.S. Law, comply with the Buy American Act (41
U.S.C. 10a-10c).
(b) Sense of Congress; Requirement Regarding Notice.--
(1) Purchase of american-made requirement and products.--In
the case of any equipment or product that may be authorized
to be purchased with financial assistance provided using
funds made available in this Act, it is the sense of the
Congress that entities receiving the assistance should, in
expending the assistance, purchase only American-made
equipment and products.
(2) Notice to recipients of assistance.--In providing
financial assistance using funds made available in this Act,
the head of each Federal agency shall provide to each
recipient of the assistance a notice describing the statement
made in paragraph (1) by the Congress.
(c) Probation of Contracts With Persons Falsely Labeling
Products as Made in America.--If it has been finally
determined by a court or Federal agency that any person
intentionally affixed a label hearing a ``Made in America''
inscription, or any inscription with the same meaning, to any
product sold in or shipped to the United States that is not
made in the United States, the person shall be ineligible to
receive any contract or subcontract made with funds made
available in this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspension,
and ineligibility procedures described in sections 9.400
through 9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the amendments offered by
the gentleman from New York [Mr. Gilman].
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
Recorded Vote
Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 292,
noes 135, answered ``present'' 1, not voting 6, as follows:
[Roll No. 189]
AYES--292
Abercrombie
Ackerman
Allen
Andrews
Bachus
Baesler
Baldacci
Barcia
Barrett (WI)
Bass
Becerra
Bentsen
Bereuter
Berman
Berry
Bilirakis
Bishop
Blagojevich
Blumenauer
Boehlert
Bonior
Borski
Boswell
Boucher
Boyd
Brown (OH)
Bryant
Bunning
Callahan
Calvert
Campbell
Capps
Cardin
Carson
Chabot
Chenoweth
Christensen
Clayton
Clement
Clyburn
Combest
Condit
Conyers
Costello
Cox
Coyne
Cramer
Crapo
Cubin
Cummings
Cunningham
Danner
Davis (FL)
Davis (IL)
Davis (VA)
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
Dellums
Deutsch
Diaz-Balart
Dicks
Dingell
Dixon
Doggett
Dooley
Doyle
Dreier
Duncan
Edwards
Engel
Ensign
Eshoo
Etheridge
Evans
Ewing
Fattah
Fawell
Fazio
Filner
Foglietta
Foley
Ford
Fowler
Fox
Frank (MA)
Franks (NJ)
Frelinghuysen
Frost
Furse
Ganske
Gejdenson
Gephardt
Gibbons
Gilchrest
Gillmor
Gilman
Gonzalez
Goodlatte
Goodling
Gordon
Goss
Green
Greenwood
Gutierrez
Hall (OH)
Hall (TX)
Hamilton
Harman
Hefner
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Holden
Hooley
Horn
Houghton
Hoyer
Inglis
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
John
Johnson (CT)
Johnson (WI)
Johnson, E. B.
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kasich
Kennedy (MA)
Kennedy (RI)
Kennelly
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kim
Kind (WI)
King (NY)
Kleczka
Klink
Kolbe
Kucinich
LaFalce
LaHood
Lampson
Lantos
Latham
LaTourette
Lazio
Leach
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Linder
Lipinski
Livingston
LoBiondo
Lofgren
Lowey
Luther
Maloney (CT)
Maloney (NY)
Manton
Manzullo
Markey
Mascara
Matsui
McCarthy (MO)
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McHale
McHugh
McInnis
McIntyre
McKinney
McNulty
Meehan
Menendez
Metcalf
Millender-McDonald
Miller (CA)
Miller (FL)
Minge
Mink
Moakley
Mollohan
Moran (VA)
Morella
Murtha
Nadler
Neal
Nethercutt
Neumann
Ney
Northup
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Owens
Oxley
Packard
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor
Pease
Pelosi
Peterson (MN)
Petri
Pickering
Pickett
Pomeroy
Porter
Portman
Poshard
Price (NC)
Quinn
Rahall
Ramstad
Rangel
Regula
Reyes
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Riggs Rivers
Rodriguez
Roemer
Ros-Lehtinen
Rothman
Roukema
Roybal-Allard
Rush
Sabo
Salmon
Sanchez
Sanders
Sandlin
Sawyer
Schaefer, Dan
Schaffer, Bob
Schumer
Scott
Serrano
Sessions
Shaw
Shays
Sherman
Sisisky
Skeen
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Smith, Adam
Smith, Linda
Snyder
Spratt
Stabenow
Stark
Stearns
Stenholm
Stokes
Strickland
Stupak
Sununu
Tanner
Tauscher
Tauzin
Taylor (MS)
Taylor (NC)
Thomas
Thune
Thurman
Tierney
Torres
Towns
Traficant
Turner
Upton
Velazquez
Vento
Visclosky
Walsh
Watt (NC)
Waxman
Weldon (FL)
Wexler
Weygand
White
Wise
Wolf
Woolsey
Wynn
Yates
Young (FL)
NOES--135
Aderholt
Archer
Armey
Baker
Ballenger
Barr
Barrett (NE)
Bartlett
Barton
Bateman
Bilbray
Bliley
Blunt
Boehner
Bonilla
Bono
Brady
Brown (CA)
Brown (FL)
Burr
Burton
Buyer
Camp
Canady
Cannon
Castle
Chambliss
Clay
Coble
Coburn
Collins
Cook
Cooksey
Crane
Deal
DeLay
Dickey
Doolittle
Dunn
Ehlers
Ehrlich
Emerson
English
Everett
Gallegly
Gekas
Goode
Graham
Granger
Gutknecht
Hansen
Hastert
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Hefley
Herger
Hill
Hilleary
Hilliard
Hobson
Hoekstra
Hostettler
Hulshof
Hunter
Hutchinson
Hyde
Istook
Jefferson
Jenkins
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Kelly
Kingston
Klug
Knollenberg
Largent
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (KY)
Lucas
McCrery
McDade
McIntosh
McKeon
Meek
Mica
Moran (KS)
Myrick
Norwood
Nussle
Pappas
Parker
Paul
Paxon
Payne
Peterson (PA)
Pitts
Pombo
Pryce (OH)
Radanovich
Redmond
Riley
Rogan
Rogers
Rohrabacher
Royce
Ryun
Sanford
Saxton
Scarborough
Sensenbrenner
Shadegg
Shimkus
Shuster
Skaggs
Smith (MI)
Smith (OR)
Snowbarger
Solomon
Souder
Spence
Stump
Talent
Thompson
Thornberry
Tiahrt
Wamp
Waters
Watkins
Watts (OK)
Weldon (PA)
Weller
Whitfield
Wicker
Young (AK)
ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1
DeFazio
NOT VOTING--6
Farr
Flake
Forbes
Martinez
Molinari
Schiff
{time} 1514
Mr. WELDON of Pennsylvania and Mr. HILLEARY changed their vote from
``aye'' to ``no.''
Mr. WISE, Mr. DAVIS of Virginia, Mrs. ROUKEMA, and Messrs. McCOLLUM,
KIM, PICKERING, and BARTLETT of Maryland changed their vote from ``no''
to ``aye.''
So the amendments were agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
{time} 1515
Parliamentary Inquiry
Mr. MANZULLO. Mr. Speaker, I have a parliamentary inquiry.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Goodlatte). The gentleman will state his
parliamentary inquiry.
Mr. MANZULLO. Mr. Speaker, I would ask that the Chair direct the
Sergeant at Arms to lock the doors in order to keep the Members in the
Chamber so we can finish voting here in 5 minutes.
Mr. SERRANO. I object.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair cannot order that at this point.
The Clerk will designate the next amendment on which a separate vote
has been demanded.
The text of the amendment is as follows:
Amendment offered by Mr. Smith of New Jersey:
In Title 17, add the following new section (and conform the
table of contents accordingly):
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the amendment offered by
the gentleman from New Jersey [Mr. Smith].
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
Recorded Vote
Mr. SERRANO. 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 425,
noes 0, answered ``present'' 1, not voting 8, as follows:
[Roll No. 190]
AYES--425
Abercrombie
Ackerman
Aderholt
Allen
Andrews
Archer
Bachus
Baesler
Baker
Baldacci
Ballenger
Barcia
Barr
Barrett (NE)
Barrett (WI)
Bartlett
Barton
Bass
Bateman
Becerra
Bentsen
Bereuter
Berry
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop
Blagojevich
Bliley
Blumenauer
Blunt
Boehlert
Boehner
Bonilla
Bonior
Bono
Borski
Boswell
Boucher
Boyd
Brady
Brown (CA)
Brown (FL)
Brown (OH)
Bryant
Bunning
Burr
Burton
Buyer
Callahan
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Canady
Cannon
Capps
Cardin
Carson
Castle
Chabot
Chambliss
Chenoweth
Christensen
Clay
Clayton
Clement
Clyburn
Coble
Coburn
Collins
Combest
Condit
Conyers
Cook
Cooksey
Costello
Cox
Coyne
Cramer
Crane
Crapo
Cubin
Cummings
Cunningham
Danner
Davis (FL)
Davis (IL)
Davis (VA)
Deal
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
DeLay
Dellums
Deutsch
Diaz-Balart
Dickey
Dicks
Dingell
Dixon
Doggett
Dooley
Doolittle
Doyle
Dreier
Duncan
Dunn
Edwards
Ehlers
Ehrlich
Emerson
Engel
English
Ensign
Eshoo
Etheridge
Evans
Everett
Ewing
Fattah
Fawell
Fazio
Filner
Foglietta
Foley
Ford
Fowler
Fox
Frank (MA)
Franks (NJ)
Frelinghuysen
Frost
Furse
Gallegly
Ganske
Gejdenson
Gekas
Gephardt
Gibbons
Gilchrest
Gillmor
Gilman
Gonzalez
Goode
Goodlatte
Goodling
Gordon
Goss
Graham
Granger
Green
Greenwood
Gutierrez
Gutknecht
Hall (OH)
Hall (TX)
Hamilton
Hansen
Harman
Hastert
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Hefley
Hefner
Herger
Hill
Hilleary
Hilliard
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hobson
Hoekstra
Holden
Hooley
Horn
Hostettler
Houghton
Hoyer
Hulshof
Hunter
Hutchinson
Hyde
Inglis
Istook
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
Jenkins
John
Johnson (CT)
Johnson (WI)
Johnson, E.B.
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kasich
Kelly
Kennedy (MA)
Kennedy (RI)
Kennelly
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kim
Kind (WI)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kleczka
Klink
Klug
Knollenberg
Kolbe
Kucinich
LaFalce
LaHood
Lampson
Lantos
Largent
Latham
LaTourette
Lazio
Leach
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Lipinski
Livingston
LoBiondo
Lofgren
Lowey
Lucas
Luther
Maloney (CT)
Maloney (NY)
Manton
Manzullo
Markey
Martinez
Mascara
Matsui
McCarthy (MO)
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McCrery
McDade
McDermott
McGovern
McHale
McHugh
McInnis
McIntosh
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinney
McNulty
Meehan
Meek
Menendez
Metcalf
Mica
Millender-McDonald
Miller (CA)
Miller (FL)
Minge
Mink
Moakley
Mollohan
Moran (KS)
Moran (VA)
Morella
Murtha
Myrick
Nadler
Neal
Nethercutt
Neumann
Ney
Northup
Norwood
Nussle
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Owens
Oxley
Packard
Pallone
Pappas
Parker
Pascrell
Pastor
Paul
Paxon
Payne
Pease
Pelosi
Peterson (MN)
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pickering
Pickett
Pitts
Pombo
Pomeroy
Porter
Portman
Poshard
Price (NC)
Pryce (OH)
Quinn
Radanovich
Rahall
Ramstad
Rangel
Redmond
Regula
Reyes
Riggs
Riley
Rivers
Rodriguez
Roemer
Rogan
Rogers
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Rothman
Roukema
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Rush
Ryun
Sabo
Salmon
Sanchez
Sanders
Sandlin
Sanford
Sawyer
Saxton
Scarborough
Schaefer, Dan
Schaffer, Bob
Schumer
Scott
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sessions
Shadegg
Shaw
Shays
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuster
Sisisky
Skaggs
Skeen
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (MI)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (OR)
Smith (TX)
Smith, Adam
Smith, Linda
Snowbarger
Snyder
Solomon
Souder
Spence
Spratt
Stabenow
Stark
Stearns
Stenholm
Stokes
Strickland
Stump
Stupak
Sununu
Talent
Tanner
Tauscher
Tauzin
Taylor (MS)
Taylor (NC)
Thompson
Thornberry
Thune
Thurman
Tiahrt
Tierney
Torres
Towns
Traficant
Turner
Upton
Velazquez
Vento
Visclosky
Walsh
Wamp
Waters
Watkins
Watt (NC)
Watts (OK)
Waxman
Weldon (FL)
Weldon (PA)
Weller
Wexler
Weygand
White
Whitfield
Wicker
Wise
Wolf
Woolsey
Wynn
Yates
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
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ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1
DeFazio
NOT VOTING--8
Armey
Berman
Farr
Flake
Forbes
Molinari
Schiff
Thomas
{time} 1523
Ms. HARMAN, Mrs. CLAYTON and Mr. CLAY changed their vote from ``no''
to ``aye.''
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Parliamentary Inquiry
Mr. LEWIS of California. Parliamentary inquiry, Mr. Speaker.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will state his parliamentary
inquiry.
Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, is the next vote on an
amendment which was offered by my distinguished colleague from New
York, Mr. Serrano?
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman is correct.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the next amendment
on which a separate vote has been demanded.
The text of the amendment is as follows:
Amendment offered by Mr. Serrano:
At the end of title XVII (relating to foreign policy
provisions) insert the following new section:
SEC. 1717. REPORT CONCERNING OFFICIAL COMPLAINTS OF THE
GOVERNMENT OF CUBA TO THE GOVERNMENT OF THE
UNITED STATES.
(a) Report to Congress.--Not later than 3 months after the
date of the enactment of this Act, and each subsequent 3
months thereafter, the Secretary of State, after
consultations with the heads of other Federal departments and
agencies, shall submit to the Congress a report listing all
complaints by the Government of Cuba to departments and
agencies of the United States Government concerning actions
taken by United States persons or the Government of the
United States.
(b) United States Person Defined.--As used in this section
the term ``United States person'' means any--
(1) United States citizen or national;
(2) permanent resident alien; or
(3) juridical person organized under the laws of the United
States.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the amendment offered by
the gentleman from New York [Mr. Serrano].
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the noes appeared to have it.
Recorded Vote
Mr. SERRANO. 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 141,
noes 287, not voting 6, as follows:
[Roll No. 191]
AYES--141
Abercrombie
Ackerman
Allen
Baesler
Baldacci
Barrett (WI)
Becerra
Berry
Bishop
Blumenauer
Bonior
Boswell
Boucher
Brown (CA)
Brown (OH)
Capps
Carson
Clay
Clayton
Clement
Clyburn
Condit
Conyers
Costello
Coyne
Cummings
Davis (IL)
DeFazio
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
Dellums
Dicks
Dingell
Dixon
Doggett
Dooley
Eshoo
Etheridge
Evans
Fattah
Fazio
Filner
Foglietta
Ford
Frank (MA)
Frost
Furse
Gejdenson
Gonzalez
Hall (OH)
Hall (TX)
Hamilton
Harman
Hastings (FL)
Hefner
Hilliard
Hinchey
Hooley
Hoyer
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
John
Johnson, E. B.
Kanjorski
Kennelly
Kilpatrick
Kleczka
Klink
Kucinich
LaFalce
Lantos
Lewis (GA)
Lofgren
Lowey
Luther
Maloney (NY)
Markey
Martinez
Matsui
McDermott
McGovern
McHale
McKinney
Meehan
Meek
Millender-McDonald
Miller (CA)
Minge
Mink
Moakley
Moran (VA)
Nadler
Neal
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Owens
Pastor
Payne
Pelosi
Poshard
Price (NC)
Rangel
Rivers
Rodriguez
Roemer
Roybal-Allard
Rush
Sabo
Sanchez
Sanders
Sawyer
Schumer
Scott
Serrano
Skaggs
Slaughter
Snyder
Stabenow
Stark
Stenholm
Stokes
Tauscher
Taylor (MS)
Thompson
Tierney
Torres
Towns
Turner
Velazquez
Vento
Visclosky
Waters
Watt (NC)
Waxman
Weygand
Woolsey
Wynn
Yates
NOES--287
Aderholt
Andrews
Archer
Armey
Bachus
Baker
Ballenger
Barcia
Barr
Barrett (NE)
Bartlett
Barton
Bass
Bateman
Bentsen
Bereuter
Berman
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Blagojevich
Bliley
Blunt
Boehlert
Boehner
Bonilla
Bono
Borski
Boyd
Brady
Brown (FL)
Bryant
Bunning
Burr
Burton
Buyer
Callahan
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Canady
Cannon
Cardin
Castle
Chabot
Chambliss
Chenoweth
Christensen
Coble
Coburn
Collins
Combest
Cook
Cooksey
Cox
Cramer
Crane
Crapo
Cubin
Cunningham
Danner
Davis (FL)
Davis (VA)
Deal
DeLay
Deutsch
Diaz-Balart
Dickey
Doolittle
Doyle
Dreier
Duncan
Dunn
Edwards
Ehlers
Ehrlich
Emerson
Engel
English
Ensign
Everett
Ewing
Fawell
Foley
Fowler
Fox
Franks (NJ)
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly
Ganske
Gekas
Gephardt
Gibbons
Gilchrest
Gillmor
Gilman
Goode
Goodlatte
Goodling
Gordon
Goss
Graham
Granger
Green
Greenwood
Gutierrez
Gutknecht
Hansen
Hastert
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Hefley
Herger
Hill
Hilleary
Hinojosa
Hobson
Hoekstra
Holden
Horn
Hostettler
Houghton
Hulshof
Hunter
Hutchinson
Hyde
Inglis
Istook
Jenkins
Johnson (CT)
Johnson (WI)
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Kaptur
Kasich
Kelly
Kennedy (MA)
Kennedy (RI)
Kildee
Kim
Kind (WI)
King (NY)
Kingston
Klug
Knollenberg
Kolbe
LaHood
Lampson
Largent
Latham
LaTourette
Lazio
Leach
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Lipinski
Livingston
LoBiondo
Lucas
Maloney (CT)
Manton
Manzullo
Mascara
McCarthy (MO)
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McCrery
McDade
McHugh
McInnis
McIntosh
McIntyre
McKeon
McNulty
Menendez
Metcalf
Mica
Miller (FL)
Mollohan
Moran (KS)
Morella
Murtha
Myrick
Nethercutt
Neumann
Ney
Northup
Norwood
Nussle
Ortiz
Oxley
Packard
Pallone
Pappas
Parker
Pascrell
Paul
Paxon
Pease
Peterson (MN)
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pickering
Pickett
Pitts
Pombo
Pomeroy
Porter
Portman
Pryce (OH)
Quinn
Radanovich
Rahall
Ramstad
Redmond
Regula
Reyes
Riggs
Riley
Rogan
Rogers
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Rothman
Roukema
Ryun
Salmon
Sandlin
Sanford
Saxton
Scarborough
Schaefer, Dan
Schaffer, Bob
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shadegg
Shaw
Shays
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuster
Sisisky
Skeen
Skelton
Smith (MI)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (OR)
Smith (TX)
Smith, Adam
Smith, Linda
Snowbarger
Solomon
Souder
Spence
Spratt
Stearns
Strickland
Stump
Stupak
Sununu
Talent
Tanner
Tauzin
Taylor (NC)
Thomas
Thornberry
Thune
Thurman
Tiahrt
Traficant
Upton
Walsh
Wamp
Watkins
Watts (OK)
Weldon (FL)
Weldon (PA)
Weller
Wexler
White
Whitfield
Wicker
Wise
Wolf
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
NOT VOTING--6
Farr
Flake
Forbes
Molinari
Royce
Schiff
{time} 1535
Messrs. TAYLOR of North Carolina, McINTYRE, and SPRATT changed their
vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
So the amendment was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the following
noncontroversial amendments be considered en bloc:
The Fox of Pennsylvania amendment regarding Ukraine;
the Lazio of New York amendment regarding child and spousal support
obligations;
the Scarborough amendment regarding Sudan;
the Nethercutt amendment regarding release of hostages in India;
the Fox of Pennsylvania amendment regarding Romania in NATO;
the Ney amendment regarding assistance to Libya; and
the Paxon-Engel-Saxton amendment regarding Palestinian land sales.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Goodlatte). Is there objection to the
request of the gentleman from New York?
Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Speaker, I object.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Objection is heard.
The Clerk will designate the next amendment on which a separate vote
has been demanded.
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The text of the amendment is as follows:
Amendment offered by Mr. Fox of Pennsylvania:
At the end of title XVII insert the following new section:
SEC. 1717. SENSE OF CONGRESS CONCERNING ASSISTANCE FOR
UKRAINE.
(a) In General.--It is the sense of the Congress that--
(1) the Government and nation of Ukraine are to be
commended for their decision to relinquish the nuclear
weapons in the possession of Ukraine after the demise of the
former Soviet Union;
(2) the Government of Ukraine is to be commended for its
recent announcement that Ukrainian enterprises will not
participate in the construction of nuclear reactors in Iran;
(3) the Government of Ukraine is to be commended for taking
a positive and cooperative position with regard to the
admission into the NATO alliance of new member-states in
Central and Eastern Europe, particularly Ukraine's
willingness to negotiate a bilateral charter with that
alliance;
(4) the Government of Ukraine is to be commended for its
efforts to ensure that the Russian-dominated Commonwealth of
Independent States organization does not serve as a means to
reintegrate the independent states of the former Soviet Union
into a new political entity under Russian leadership and
occupying the territory that comprised the former Soviet
Union;
(5) the Government of Ukraine should immediately move to
ensure that United States investors who have been subjected
to extortion, fraud, or other criminal activity, or to
inappropriate, corrupt activities carried out by officials or
representatives of the Ukrainian Government, are provided
with full restitution or compensation for their losses;
(6) the nation and Government of Ukraine are to be
commended for the adoption of a democratic constitution, the
conduct of free and fair elections, and the peaceful transfer
of executive power since Ukraine gained its independence in
1991; and
(7) the President should respond positively to any request
made by the government of Ukraine for United States
government agencies assistance and involvement in the
implementation of additional programs to fight corruption in
Ukraine and to ensure that American investors in that country
are not subjected to unfair, inappropriate, or criminal
practices on the part of officials of the Government of
Ukraine or any citizens of Ukraine.
(b) Availability of Amounts for Ukraine.--It is further the
sense of the Congress that the President should ensure that
Ukraine receives assistance for fiscal years 1998 and 1999
for political and economic reforms at a level equal to that
allocated to Ukraine for fiscal year 1997.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the amendment offered by
the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Fox].
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
Recorded Vote
Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 415,
noes 12, not voting 7, as follows:
[Roll No. 192]
AYES--415
Abercrombie
Ackerman
Aderholt
Allen
Andrews
Archer
Armey
Bachus
Baesler
Baker
Baldacci
Ballenger
Barcia
Barr
Barrett (NE)
Barrett (WI)
Bartlett
Barton
Bass
Bateman
Bentsen
Bereuter
Berman
Berry
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop
Blagojevich
Bliley
Blumenauer
Blunt
Boehlert
Boehner
Bonilla
Bonior
Bono
Borski
Boswell
Boucher
Boyd
Brady
Brown (CA)
Brown (FL)
Brown (OH)
Bryant
Bunning
Burr
Burton
Callahan
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Canady
Cannon
Capps
Cardin
Carson
Castle
Chabot
Chambliss
Chenoweth
Christensen
Clay
Clayton
Clement
Clyburn
Coble
Coburn
Collins
Combest
Condit
Conyers
Cook
Cooksey
Costello
Cox
Coyne
Cramer
Crane
Crapo
Cubin
Cummings
Cunningham
Danner
Davis (FL)
Davis (IL)
Davis (VA)
Deal
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
DeLay
Dellums
Deutsch
Diaz-Balart
Dickey
Dicks
Dingell
Dixon
Doggett
Dooley
Doolittle
Doyle
Dreier
Duncan
Dunn
Edwards
Ehlers
Ehrlich
Emerson
Engel
English
Ensign
Eshoo
Etheridge
Evans
Everett
Ewing
Fattah
Fawell
Fazio
Foglietta
Foley
Ford
Fowler
Fox
Frank (MA)
Franks (NJ)
Frelinghuysen
Frost
Furse
Gallegly
Ganske
Gejdenson
Gekas
Gephardt
Gibbons
Gilchrest
Gillmor
Gilman
Gonzalez
Goode
Goodlatte
Goodling
Gordon
Goss
Graham
Granger
Green
Greenwood
Gutierrez
Gutknecht
Hall (OH)
Hall (TX)
Hansen
Harman
Hastert
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Hefley
Hefner
Herger
Hill
Hilleary
Hilliard
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hobson
Hoekstra
Holden
Hooley
Horn
Hostettler
Houghton
Hoyer
Hulshof
Hunter
Hutchinson
Hyde
Inglis
Istook
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
Jenkins
John
Johnson (CT)
Johnson (WI)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Kaptur
Kasich
Kelly
Kennedy (MA)
Kennedy (RI)
Kennelly
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kim
Kind (WI)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kleczka
Klink
Klug
Knollenberg
Kolbe
Kucinich
LaFalce
LaHood
Lampson
Lantos
Largent
Latham
LaTourette
Lazio
Leach
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Lipinski
Livingston
LoBiondo
Lofgren
Lowey
Lucas
Luther
Maloney (CT)
Maloney (NY)
Manton
Manzullo
Markey
Martinez
Mascara
Matsui
McCarthy (MO)
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McCrery
McDade
McGovern
McHale
McHugh
McInnis
McIntosh
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinney
McNulty
Meehan
Meek
Menendez
Metcalf
Mica
Millender-McDonald
Miller (CA)
Miller (FL)
Minge
Mink
Moakley
Moran (KS)
Moran (VA)
Morella
Murtha
Myrick
Nadler
Neal
Nethercutt
Neumann
Ney
Northup
Norwood
Nussle
Oberstar
Olver
Ortiz
Owens
Oxley
Packard
Pallone
Pappas
Parker
Pascrell
Paxon
Payne
Pelosi
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pickering
Pickett
Pitts
Pombo
Pomeroy
Porter
Portman
Poshard
Price (NC)
Pryce (OH)
Quinn
Radanovich
Ramstad
Rangel
Redmond
Regula
Reyes
Riggs
Riley
Rivers
Rodriguez
Roemer
Rogan
Rogers
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Rothman
Roukema
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Rush
Ryun
Sabo
Salmon
Sanchez
Sanders
Sandlin
Sanford
Sawyer
Saxton
Scarborough
Schaefer, Dan
Schaffer, Bob
Schumer
Scott
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sessions
Shadegg
Shaw
Shays
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuster
Sisisky
Skaggs
Skeen
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (MI)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (OR)
Smith (TX)
Smith, Adam
Smith, Linda
Snowbarger
Snyder
Solomon
Souder
Spence
Spratt
Stabenow
Stark
Stearns
Stenholm
Stokes
Strickland
Stump
Stupak
Sununu
Talent
Tanner
Tauscher
Tauzin
Taylor (MS)
Taylor (NC)
Thomas
Thompson
Thornberry
Thune
Thurman
Tiahrt
Tierney
Torres
Towns
Traficant
Turner
Upton
Velazquez
Vento
Visclosky
Walsh
Wamp
Waters
Watkins
Watt (NC)
Watts (OK)
Waxman
Weldon (FL)
Weldon (PA)
Weller
Wexler
Weygand
White
Whitfield
Wicker
Wise
Wolf
Woolsey
Wynn
Yates
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
NOES--12
Becerra
Buyer
DeFazio
Filner
Hamilton
Kanjorski
McDermott
Obey
Pastor
Paul
Pease
Rahall
NOT VOTING--7
Farr
Flake
Forbes
Molinari
Mollohan
Peterson (MN)
Schiff
{time} 1544
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
{time} 1545
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Goodlatte). The Clerk will report the
next amendment on which a separate vote has been demanded.
The Clerk read as follows:
Amendment offered by Mr. Lazio of New York:
At the end of title XVII (relating to foreign policy
provisions) insert the following:
SEC. 1717. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING COMPLIANCE WITH CHILD
AND SPOUSAL SUPPORT OBLIGATIONS BY UNITED
NATIONS PERSONNEL.
(a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) all United Nations staff, including diplomats, should
comply with binding United States Federal, State, and local
court orders regarding child and spousal support obligations;
(2) the internal regulations of the United Nations allows--
(A) the United Nations to release staff salary information
to the courts in spousal and child support cases;
(B) the Secretary General to authorize deduction of
dependency related allowances from staff salary;
(C) the United Nations to cooperate with appropriate
authorities to facilitate proper legal or judicial resolution
of the family's claim.
[[Page H3699]]
(b) Congressional Statement.--The Secretary of State should
urge the United Nations to fully comply with regulations
regarding compliance with child and spousal support
obligations by United Nations personnel, in a timely manner
and to the fullest extent possible.
(c) Limitation on Payment of Arrearages to the United
Nations.--Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, of
funds appropriated for the payment of United States
arrearages to the United Nations out of funds authorized to
be appropriated by this Act, $10,000,000 shall not be
available until the Secretary of State certifies that--
(1) the United Nations is actively enforcing child and
spousal support payments in compliance with Federal, State,
and local court orders; and
(2) the United Nations is actively reforming its pension
policy, making the United Nations pension fund subject to
Federal, State, or local court orders of spousal or child
support.
The Speaker pro tempore. The question is on the amendment offered by
the gentleman from New York [Mr. Lazio].
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
Recorded Vote
Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a five-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 387,
noes 38, not voting 9, as follows:
[Roll No. 193]
AYES--387
Abercrombie
Ackerman
Aderholt
Allen
Andrews
Archer
Armey
Bachus
Baesler
Baker
Baldacci
Ballenger
Barcia
Barr
Barrett (NE)
Barrett (WI)
Bartlett
Barton
Bass
Bateman
Bentsen
Bereuter
Berry
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop
Blagojevich
Bliley
Blumenauer
Blunt
Boehlert
Boehner
Bonilla
Bono
Borski
Boswell
Boucher
Boyd
Brady
Brown (FL)
Brown (OH)
Bryant
Bunning
Burr
Burton
Buyer
Callahan
Calvert
Camp
Canady
Cannon
Cardin
Castle
Chabot
Chambliss
Chenoweth
Christensen
Clay
Clayton
Clyburn
Coble
Coburn
Collins
Combest
Condit
Cook
Cooksey
Costello
Cox
Coyne
Cramer
Crane
Crapo
Cubin
Cummings
Cunningham
Danner
Davis (IL)
Davis (VA)
Deal
DeFazio
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
DeLay
Deutsch
Diaz-Balart
Dickey
Dicks
Dixon
Doolittle
Doyle
Dreier
Duncan
Dunn
Edwards
Ehlers
Ehrlich
Emerson
Engel
English
Ensign
Etheridge
Evans
Everett
Ewing
Fattah
Fawell
Fazio
Foley
Ford
Fowler
Fox
Frank (MA)
Franks (NJ)
Frelinghuysen
Frost
Gallegly
Ganske
Gejdenson
Gekas
Gephardt
Gibbons
Gilchrest
Gillmor
Gilman
Gonzalez
Goode
Goodlatte
Gordon
Goss
Graham
Granger
Green
Greenwood
Gutierrez
Gutknecht
Hall (OH)
Hall (TX)
Hansen
Harman
Hastert
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Hefley
Hefner
Herger
Hill
Hilleary
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hobson
Hoekstra
Holden
Hooley
Horn
Hostettler
Houghton
Hoyer
Hulshof
Hunter
Hutchinson
Hyde
Inglis
Istook
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
Jenkins
John
Johnson (CT)
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kasich
Kelly
Kennedy (MA)
Kennedy (RI)
Kennelly
Kildee
Kim
Kind (WI)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kleczka
Klink
Klug
Knollenberg
Kolbe
Kucinich
LaFalce
LaHood
Lampson
Lantos
Largent
Latham
LaTourette
Lazio
Leach
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Lipinski
Livingston
LoBiondo
Lofgren
Lowey
Lucas
Luther
Maloney (CT)
Maloney (NY)
Manton
Manzullo
Markey
Martinez
Mascara
Matsui
McCarthy (MO)
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McCrery
McDade
McGovern
McHale
McHugh
McInnis
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinney
McNulty
Meehan
Meek
Menendez
Metcalf
Mica
Millender-McDonald
Miller (FL)
Minge
Mink
Moakley
Moran (KS)
Moran (VA)
Morella
Murtha
Myrick
Nadler
Neal
Nethercutt
Neumann
Ney
Northup
Norwood
Nussle
Oberstar
Ortiz
Owens
Oxley
Packard
Pallone
Pappas
Parker
Pascrell
Pastor
Paxon
Pease
Pelosi
Peterson (MN)
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pickering
Pickett
Pitts
Pombo
Pomeroy
Porter
Portman
Poshard
Price (NC)
Pryce (OH)
Quinn
Radanovich
Ramstad
Rangel
Redmond
Regula
Reyes
Riggs
Riley
Rodriguez
Roemer
Rogan
Rogers
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Rothman
Roukema
Royce
Rush
Ryun
Sabo
Salmon
Sanchez
Sandlin
Sanford
Sawyer
Saxton
Scarborough
Schaefer, Dan
Schaffer, Bob
Schumer
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sessions
Shadegg
Shaw
Shays
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuster
Sisisky
Skeen
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (MI)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (OR)
Smith (TX)
Smith, Adam
Smith, Linda
Snowbarger
Snyder
Solomon
Souder
Spence
Spratt
Stabenow
Stark
Stearns
Stenholm
Stokes
Strickland
Stump
Stupak
Sununu
Talent
Tanner
Tauscher
Tauzin
Taylor (MS)
Taylor (NC)
Thomas
Thompson
Thornberry
Thune
Thurman
Tiahrt
Tierney
Torres
Towns
Traficant
Turner
Upton
Vento
Visclosky
Walsh
Wamp
Watkins
Watts (OK)
Waxman
Weldon (FL)
Weldon (PA)
Weller
Wexler
Weygand
White
Whitfield
Wicker
Wise
Wolf
Woolsey
Wynn
Yates
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
NOES--38
Becerra
Berman
Bonior
Brown (CA)
Campbell
Capps
Carson
Clement
Conyers
Davis (FL)
Dellums
Dingell
Dooley
Eshoo
Filner
Foglietta
Furse
Hamilton
Hilliard
Jackson (IL)
Johnson (WI)
Johnson, E. B.
Kilpatrick
McDermott
Miller (CA)
Obey
Olver
Paul
Payne
Rahall
Rivers
Roybal-Allard
Sanders
Scott
Skaggs
Velazquez
Waters
Watt (NC)
NOT VOTING--9
Doggett
Farr
Flake
Forbes
Goodling
McIntosh
Molinari
Mollohan
Schiff
{time} 1752
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Parliamentary Inquiry
Mr. TIAHRT. I have a parliamentary inquiry, Mr. Speaker.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will state his parliamentary
inquiry.
Mr. TIAHRT. Would it be in order for us to reconsider the Frank
Sinatra congressional award, Mr. Speaker?
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman has not stated a proper
parliamentary inquiry.
The Clerk will report the next amendment on which a separate vote has
been demanded.
The Clerk read as follows:
Amendment offered by Mr. Smith of New Jersey:
Insert at the end of the bill the following new title:
TITLE . UNITED STATES POLICY WITH RESPECT TO FORCED ABORTION AND
FOREIGN ORGANIZATIONS THAT PERFORM OR PROMOTE ABORTION
SEC. . FOREIGN ORGANIZATIONS THAT PERFORM OR PROMOTE
ABORTION.
Section 104 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Public
Law 87-195, is amended by the addition of the following
subject.
``(h) Restriction on Assistance to Foreign Organizations
that Perform or Actively Promote Abortions.--
``(1) Performance of abortions.--
``(a) Notwithstanding section 614 of this Act or any other
provision of law, no funds appropriated for population
planning activities or other population assistance may be
made available for any foreign private, nongovernmental, or
multilateral organization until the organization certifies
that it will not, during the period for which the funds are
made available, perform abortions in any foreign country,
except where the life of the mother would be endangered if
the pregnancy were carried to term or in cases of forcible
rape or incest.
``(b) Paragraph (a) may not be construed to apply to the
treatment of injuries or illnesses caused by legal or illegal
abortions or to assistance provided directly to the
government of a country.
``(2) Lobbying activities.--
``(a) Notwithstanding section 614 of this Act or any other
provision of law, no funds appropriated for population
planning activities or other population assistance may be
made available for any foreign private, nongovernmental, or
multilateral organization until the organization certifies
that it will not, during the period for which the funds are
made available, violate the laws of any foreign country
concerning the circumstances under which abortion is
permitted, regulated, or prohibited, or engage in any
activity or effort to alter the laws or governmental policies
of any foreign county concerning the circumstances under
which abortion is permitted, regulated or prohibited.
``(b) Paragraph (a) shall not apply to activities in
opposition to coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization.
``(3) The prohibitions of this subsection apply to funds
made available to a foreign
[[Page H3700]]
organization either directly or as a subcontractor or sub-
grantee, and the required certifications apply to activities
in which the organization engages either directly or through
a subcontractor or sub-grantee.''
SEC. . FORCED ABORTION IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.
Section 301 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, Public
Law 87-195, is amended by the addition of the following new
subsection:
``(i) Limitation Relating to Forced Abortions in the
People's Republic of China.--Notwithstanding section 614 of
this Act or any other provision of law, no funds may be made
available for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in
any fiscal year unless the President certifies that (1) UNFPA
has terminated all activities in the People's Republic of
China, and the United States has received assurances that
UNFPA will conduct no such activities during the fiscal year
for which the funds are to be made available; or (2) during
the 12 months preceding such certification there have been no
abortions as the result of coercion associated with the
family planning policies of the national government or other
governmental entities within the People's Republic of China.
As used in this section the term ``coercion'' includes
physical duress or abuse, destruction or confiscation of
property, loss of means of livelihood, or severe
psychological pressure.''
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the amendment offered by
the gentleman from New Jersey [Mr. Smith].
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
recorded vote
Mr. SERRANO. 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 234,
noes 193, not voting 7, as follows:
[Roll No. 194]
AYES--234
Aderholt
Archer
Armey
Bachus
Baker
Ballenger
Barcia
Barr
Barrett (NE)
Bartlett
Barton
Bateman
Bereuter
Berry
Bilirakis
Bliley
Blunt
Boehner
Bonilla
Bonior
Bono
Borski
Brady
Bryant
Bunning
Burr
Burton
Buyer
Callahan
Calvert
Camp
Canady
Cannon
Chabot
Chambliss
Chenoweth
Christensen
Coble
Coburn
Collins
Combest
Cook
Cooksey
Costello
Cox
Cramer
Crane
Crapo
Cubin
Cunningham
Danner
Deal
DeLay
Diaz-Balart
Dickey
Dingell
Doolittle
Doyle
Dreier
Duncan
Dunn
Ehlers
Emerson
English
Ensign
Everett
Ewing
Foley
Fowler
Fox
Gallegly
Ganske
Gekas
Gibbons
Gillmor
Goode
Goodlatte
Goodling
Goss
Graham
Granger
Gutknecht
Hall (OH)
Hall (TX)
Hamilton
Hansen
Hastert
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Hefley
Herger
Hill
Hilleary
Hoekstra
Holden
Hostettler
Hulshof
Hunter
Hutchinson
Hyde
Inglis
Istook
Jenkins
John
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kasich
Kildee
Kim
King (NY)
Kingston
Kleczka
Klink
Knollenberg
Kucinich
LaFalce
LaHood
Largent
Latham
LaTourette
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Lipinski
Livingston
LoBiondo
Lucas
Manton
Manzullo
Mascara
McCollum
McCrery
McDade
McHugh
McInnis
McIntosh
McIntyre
McKeon
Metcalf
Mica
Miller (FL)
Moakley
Moran (KS)
Murtha
Myrick
Nethercutt
Neumann
Ney
Northup
Norwood
Nussle
Oberstar
Obey
Ortiz
Oxley
Packard
Pappas
Parker
Paul
Paxon
Pease
Peterson (MN)
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pickering
Pitts
Pombo
Portman
Poshard
Quinn
Radanovich
Rahall
Redmond
Regula
Riggs
Riley
Roemer
Rogan
Rogers
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Royce
Ryun
Salmon
Sanford
Saxton
Scarborough
Schaefer, Dan
Schaffer, Bob
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shadegg
Shaw
Shimkus
Shuster
Skeen
Skelton
Smith (MI)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (OR)
Smith (TX)
Smith, Linda
Snowbarger
Solomon
Souder
Spence
Stearns
Stenholm
Stump
Stupak
Sununu
Talent
Tauzin
Taylor (MS)
Taylor (NC)
Thornberry
Thune
Tiahrt
Traficant
Walsh
Wamp
Watkins
Watts (OK)
Weldon (FL)
Weldon (PA)
Weller
Weygand
Whitfield
Wicker
Wolf
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
NOES--193
Abercrombie
Ackerman
Allen
Andrews
Baesler
Baldacci
Barrett (WI)
Bass
Becerra
Bentsen
Berman
Bilbray
Bishop
Blagojevich
Blumenauer
Boehlert
Boswell
Boucher
Boyd
Brown (CA)
Brown (FL)
Brown (OH)
Campbell
Capps
Cardin
Carson
Castle
Clay
Clayton
Clement
Clyburn
Condit
Conyers
Coyne
Cummings
Davis (FL)
Davis (IL)
Davis (VA)
DeFazio
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
Dellums
Deutsch
Dicks
Dixon
Doggett
Dooley
Edwards
Ehrlich
Engel
Eshoo
Etheridge
Evans
Fattah
Fawell
Fazio
Filner
Foglietta
Ford
Frank (MA)
Franks (NJ)
Frelinghuysen
Frost
Furse
Gejdenson
Gephardt
Gilchrest
Gilman
Gonzalez
Gordon
Green
Greenwood
Gutierrez
Harman
Hastings (FL)
Hefner
Hilliard
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hobson
Hooley
Horn
Houghton
Hoyer
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
Johnson (CT)
Johnson (WI)
Johnson, E. B.
Kelly
Kennedy (MA)
Kennedy (RI)
Kennelly
Kilpatrick
Kind (WI)
Klug
Kolbe
Lampson
Lantos
Lazio
Leach
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lofgren
Lowey
Luther
Maloney (CT)
Maloney (NY)
Markey
Martinez
Matsui
McCarthy (MO)
McCarthy (NY)
McDermott
McGovern
McHale
McKinney
McNulty
Meehan
Meek
Menendez
Millender-McDonald
Miller (CA)
Minge
Mink
Moran (VA)
Morella
Nadler
Neal
Olver
Owens
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor
Payne
Pickett
Pomeroy
Porter
Price (NC)
Pryce (OH)
Ramstad
Rangel
Reyes
Rivers
Rodriguez
Rothman
Roukema
Roybal-Allard
Rush
Sabo
Sanchez
Sanders
Sandlin
Sawyer
Schumer
Scott
Serrano
Shays
Sherman
Sisisky
Skaggs
Slaughter
Smith, Adam
Snyder
Spratt
Stabenow
Stark
Stokes
Strickland
Tanner
Tauscher
Thomas
Thompson
Thurman
Tierney
Torres
Towns
Turner
Upton
Velazquez
Vento
Visclosky
Waters
Watt (NC)
Waxman
Wexler
White
Wise
Woolsey
Wynn
Yates
NOT VOTING--7
Farr
Flake
Forbes
Molinari
Mollohan
Pelosi
Schiff
{time} 1602
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
(Mr. SOLOMON asked and was given permission to speak out of order for
1 minute.)
Announcement on Supplemental Appropriation
Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, for the purpose of making an announcement
about the supplemental appropriation bill, I want to ask the Committee
on Rules members to cast their vote early on the next vote and then
come up to the Committee on Rules so that we may have an emergency
meeting on the supplemental appropriation bill.
I would also just say that I have suggested to the leadership that
this bill has to be finished tonight and maybe, with the committees
meeting in other buildings, that we ought to perhaps recess for 2 or 3
hours and come back here at about 8 or 9 and then finish the bill
around midnight.
Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the following
amendments be considered en bloc:
Scarborough amendment regarding Sudan; Nethercutt amendment regarding
release of hostages in India, Fox of Pennsylvania amendment regarding
Romania and NATO, Ney amendment regarding assistance to Libya, Paxon-
Engel-Saxton amendment regarding Palestinian land sales.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Goodlatte). Is there objection to the
request of the gentleman from New York?
Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Speaker, I object.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Objection is heard.
The Clerk will designate the next amendment on which a separate vote
has been demanded.
The text of the amendment is as follows:
Amendment offered by Mr. Gilman:
At end of Title XVII (relating to foreign policy
provisions) add the following new section (and conform the
table of contents accordingly):
SEC. . ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO ASSISTANCE
(a) In General.--Section 481(e)(4), of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2291(e)(4)) is amended--
(1) in subparagraph (a)(ii), inserting ``or under chapter 5
of part II'' after ``(including chapter 4 of part II)''; and
(2) in subparagraph (B), by inserting before the semicolon
at the end the following: ``, other than sales or financing
provided for narcotics-related purposes following
notification in accordance with procedures applicable to
reprogramming notifications under section 634A of this
Act.''.
[[Page H3701]]
(b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a)
shall apply with respect to assistance provided on or after
the date of the enactment of this Act.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the amendment offered by
the gentleman from New York [Mr. Gilman].
The amendment was agreed to.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the next amendment
on which a separate vote has been demanded.
The text of the amendment is as follows:
Amendment offered by Mr. Scarborough:
Page 185, after line 17, insert the following section:
SEC. 1717. UNITED STATES POLICY REGARDING RELIGIOUS
PERSECUTION AND SUPPORT OF TERRORISM BY SUDAN.
(a) Findings.--The Congress finds the following:
(1) Continued disregard of the freedom of religion by Sudan
is unacceptable.
(2) Continued support of terrorist activities by Sudan is
of deepest concern and shall not be tolerated.
(b) Financial Transactions With Terrorists.--
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the exception
with respect to Sudan under section 2332(a) of title 18,
United States Code (provided in regulations issued in August
1996 by the Office of Foreign Assets of the Treasury
Department) shall cease to be effective on the date of the
enactment of this Act. No such exception under such section
may be issued with respect to Sudan until the President
certifies to the Congress that Sudan is no longer sponsoring
or supporting terrorism.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the amendment offered by
the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Scarborough].
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
Recorded Vote
Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote.
Parliamentary Inquiry
Mr. ACKERMAN (during the vote). Mr. Speaker, I have a parliamentary
inquiry.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will state it.
Mr. ACKERMAN. Mr. Speaker, on which amendment is the Chair asking for
a recorded vote?
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The chair just put the question on the
Scarborough amendment. The Chair announced that the Gilman amendment
was adopted by voice vote. This is a vote on the Scarborough amendment.
The Chair is responding during the vote since a rollcall is under
way, as to the conduct of the current vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 410,
noes 12, not voting 12, as follows:
[Roll No 195]
AYES--410
Abercrombie
Ackerman
Aderholt
Allen
Andrews
Archer
Bachus
Baesler
Baker
Baldacci
Ballenger
Barcia
Barr
Barrett (NE)
Barrett (WI)
Bartlett
Barton
Bass
Bateman
Becerra
Bentsen
Bereuter
Berman
Berry
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop
Blagojevich
Bliley
Blumenauer
Blunt
Boehlert
Boehner
Bonilla
Bonior
Bono
Borski
Boswell
Boucher
Boyd
Brady
Brown (CA)
Brown (FL)
Brown (OH)
Bryant
Bunning
Burr
Burton
Buyer
Callahan
Calvert
Camp
Canady
Cannon
Capps
Cardin
Carson
Castle
Chabot
Chambliss
Chenoweth
Christensen
Clay
Clayton
Clement
Clyburn
Coble
Coburn
Collins
Combest
Condit
Cook
Cooksey
Costello
Cox
Coyne
Cramer
Crane
Crapo
Cubin
Cummings
Cunningham
Danner
Davis (FL)
Davis (IL)
Davis (VA)
Deal
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
DeLay
Dellums
Deutsch
Diaz-Balart
Dickey
Dicks
Dingell
Dixon
Doggett
Dooley
Doolittle
Doyle
Dreier
Duncan
Dunn
Edwards
Ehlers
Ehrlich
Emerson
Engel
English
Ensign
Eshoo
Etheridge
Evans
Everett
Ewing
Fattah
Fawell
Fazio
Filner
Foglietta
Foley
Ford
Fowler
Frank (MA)
Franks (NJ)
Frelinghuysen
Frost
Furse
Gallegly
Ganske
Gejdenson
Gekas
Gephardt
Gibbons
Gilchrest
Gillmor
Gilman
Gonzalez
Goode
Goodlatte
Goodling
Gordon
Goss
Graham
Granger
Green
Gutierrez
Gutknecht
Hall (OH)
Hall (TX)
Hamilton
Hansen
Hastert
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Hefley
Hefner
Herger
Hill
Hilleary
Hilliard
Hinojosa
Hobson
Hoekstra
Holden
Hooley
Horn
Hostettler
Houghton
Hoyer
Hulshof
Hunter
Hutchinson
Hyde
Inglis
Istook
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
Jenkins
John
Johnson (CT)
Johnson (WI)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kasich
Kelly
Kennedy (MA)
Kennedy (RI)
Kennelly
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kim
Kind (WI)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kleczka
Klink
Klug
Knollenberg
Kolbe
LaHood
Lampson
Lantos
Largent
Latham
LaTourette
Lazio
Leach
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Lipinski
Livingston
LoBiondo
Lofgren
Lowey
Lucas
Luther
Maloney (CT)
Maloney (NY)
Manton
Manzullo
Markey
Martinez
Mascara
Matsui
McCarthy (MO)
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McCrery
McDade
McGovern
McHale
McHugh
McInnis
McIntosh
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinney
McNulty
Meehan
Meek
Menendez
Metcalf
Mica
Millender-McDonald
Miller (CA)
Miller (FL)
Minge
Mink
Moakley
Moran (KS)
Moran (VA)
Morella
Murtha
Myrick
Nadler
Neal
Nethercutt
Neumann
Ney
Northup
Norwood
Nussle
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Owens
Oxley
Packard
Pallone
Pappas
Parker
Pascrell
Pastor
Paxon
Payne
Pease
Peterson (MN)
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pickering
Pickett
Pitts
Pombo
Pomeroy
Porter
Portman
Poshard
Price (NC)
Pryce (OH)
Quinn
Radanovich
Ramstad
Rangel
Redmond
Regula
Reyes
Riggs
Riley
Rivers
Rodriguez
Roemer
Rogan
Rogers
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Rothman
Roukema
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Rush
Ryun
Sabo
Salmon
Sanchez
Sanders
Sandlin
Sanford
Sawyer
Saxton
Scarborough
Schaefer, Dan
Schaffer, Bob
Schumer
Scott
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sessions
Shadegg
Shaw
Shays
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuster
Sisisky
Skaggs
Skeen
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (MI)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (OR)
Smith (TX)
Smith, Adam
Smith, Linda
Snowbarger
Snyder
Solomon
Souder
Spence
Spratt
Stabenow
Stearns
Stenholm
Stokes
Strickland
Stump
Stupak
Sununu
Talent
Tanner
Tauscher
Tauzin
Taylor (MS)
Thomas
Thompson
Thornberry
Thune
Thurman
Tiahrt
Tierney
Torres
Towns
Traficant
Turner
Upton
Velazquez
Vento
Visclosky
Walsh
Wamp
Waters
Watkins
Watts (OK)
Waxman
Weldon (FL)
Weldon (PA)
Weller
Wexler
Weygand
White
Whitfield
Wicker
Wise
Wolf
Woolsey
Wynn
Yates
Young (FL)
NOES--12
Campbell
Conyers
DeFazio
Harman
Hinchey
Kucinich
LaFalce
McDermott
Paul
Rahall
Stark
Watt (NC)
NOT VOTING--12
Armey
Farr
Flake
Forbes
Fox
Greenwood
Molinari
Mollohan
Pelosi
Schiff
Taylor (NC)
Young (AK)
{time} 1612
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the next amendment
on which a separate vote has been demanded.
The text of the amendment is as follows:
Amendment offered by Mr. Nethercutt: At the end of title
XVII insert the following section:
SEC. 1717. SENSE OF CONGRESS RELATING TO THE ABDUCTION AND
DETAINMENT OF DONALD HUTCHINGS OF THE STATE OF
WASHINGTON.
(a) Findings.--The Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Al-Faran, a militant organization that seeks to merge
Kashmir with Pakistan, has waged a war against the Government
of India.
(2) During the week of July 2, 1995, Al-Faran abducted
Donald Hutchings of the State of Washington, and 4 Western
Europeans in the territory of Jammu and Kashmir, India.
(3) Al-Faran has threatened to kill Donald Hutchings and
the Western European hostages unless the Government of India
agrees to release suspected guerrillas from its jails.
(4) Several militants have been captured by the Indian
Government and have given conflicting and unconfirmed reports
about the hostages.
(5) Donald Hutchings and the 4 Western European hostages
have been held against their will by Al-Faran for nearly 2
years.
[[Page H3702]]
(b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of the Congress
that--
(1) the militant organization Al-Faran should release,
immediately, Donald Hutchings and 4 Western Europeans from
captivity;
(2) Al-Faran and their supporters should cease and desist
from all acts of hostage-taking and other violent acts within
the State of Jammu and Kashmir, India;
(3) the State Department Rewards Program should be used to
the greatest extent possible to solicit new information
pertaining to hostages; and
(4) the governments of the United States, the United
Kingdom, Germany, Norway, India, and Pakistan should share
and investigate all information relating to these hostages as
quickly as possible.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the amendment offered by
the gentleman from Washington [Mr. Nethercutt].
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
recorded vote
Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 423,
noes 0, not voting 11, as follows:
[Roll No. 196]
AYES--423
Abercrombie
Ackerman
Aderholt
Allen
Andrews
Archer
Bachus
Baesler
Baker
Baldacci
Ballenger
Barcia
Barr
Barrett (NE)
Barrett (WI)
Bartlett
Barton
Bass
Bateman
Becerra
Bentsen
Bereuter
Berman
Berry
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop
Blagojevich
Bliley
Blumenauer
Blunt
Boehlert
Boehner
Bonilla
Bonior
Bono
Borski
Boswell
Boucher
Boyd
Brady
Brown (CA)
Brown (FL)
Brown (OH)
Bryant
Bunning
Burr
Burton
Buyer
Callahan
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Canady
Cannon
Capps
Cardin
Carson
Castle
Chabot
Chambliss
Chenoweth
Christensen
Clay
Clayton
Clement
Clyburn
Coble
Coburn
Collins
Combest
Condit
Conyers
Cook
Cooksey
Costello
Cox
Coyne
Cramer
Crane
Crapo
Cubin
Cummings
Cunningham
Danner
Davis (FL)
Davis (IL)
Davis (VA)
Deal
DeFazio
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
DeLay
Dellums
Deutsch
Diaz-Balart
Dickey
Dicks
Dingell
Dixon
Doggett
Dooley
Doolittle
Doyle
Dreier
Duncan
Edwards
Ehlers
Ehrlich
Emerson
Engel
English
Ensign
Eshoo
Etheridge
Evans
Everett
Ewing
Fattah
Fawell
Fazio
Filner
Foglietta
Foley
Ford
Fowler
Fox
Frank (MA)
Franks (NJ)
Frelinghuysen
Frost
Furse
Gallegly
Ganske
Gejdenson
Gekas
Gephardt
Gibbons
Gilchrest
Gillmor
Gilman
Gonzalez
Goode
Goodlatte
Goodling
Gordon
Goss
Graham
Granger
Green
Greenwood
Gutierrez
Gutknecht
Hall (OH)
Hall (TX)
Hamilton
Hansen
Harman
Hastert
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Hefley
Hefner
Herger
Hill
Hilleary
Hilliard
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hobson
Hoekstra
Holden
Hooley
Horn
Hostettler
Houghton
Hoyer
Hulshof
Hunter
Hutchinson
Hyde
Inglis
Istook
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
Jenkins
John
Johnson (CT)
Johnson (WI)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kasich
Kelly
Kennedy (MA)
Kennedy (RI)
Kennelly
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kim
Kind (WI)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kleczka
Klink
Klug
Knollenberg
Kolbe
Kucinich
LaFalce
LaHood
Lampson
Lantos
Largent
Latham
LaTourette
Lazio
Leach
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Lipinski
Livingston
LoBiondo
Lofgren
Lowey
Lucas
Luther
Maloney (CT)
Maloney (NY)
Manton
Manzullo
Markey
Martinez
Mascara
Matsui
McCarthy (MO)
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McCrery
McDade
McDermott
McGovern
McHale
McHugh
McInnis
McIntosh
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinney
McNulty
Meehan
Meek
Menendez
Mica
Millender-McDonald
Miller (CA)
Miller (FL)
Minge
Mink
Moakley
Moran (KS)
Moran (VA)
Morella
Murtha
Myrick
Nadler
Neal
Nethercutt
Neumann
Ney
Northup
Norwood
Nussle
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Owens
Oxley
Packard
Pallone
Pappas
Parker
Pascrell
Pastor
Paul
Paxon
Payne
Pease
Peterson (MN)
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pickering
Pickett
Pitts
Pombo
Pomeroy
Porter
Portman
Poshard
Price (NC)
Pryce (OH)
Quinn
Radanovich
Rahall
Ramstad
Rangel
Redmond
Regula
Reyes
Riggs
Riley
Rivers
Rodriguez
Roemer
Rogan
Rogers
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Rothman
Roukema
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Rush
Ryun
Sabo
Salmon
Sanchez
Sanders
Sandlin
Sanford
Sawyer
Saxton
Scarborough
Schaefer, Dan
Schaffer, Bob
Schumer
Scott
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sessions
Shadegg
Shaw
Shays
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuster
Sisisky
Skeen
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (MI)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (OR)
Smith (TX)
Smith, Adam
Smith, Linda
Snowbarger
Snyder
Solomon
Souder
Spence
Spratt
Stabenow
Stark
Stearns
Stenholm
Stokes
Strickland
Stump
Stupak
Sununu
Talent
Tanner
Tauscher
Tauzin
Taylor (MS)
Taylor (NC)
Thomas
Thompson
Thornberry
Thune
Thurman
Tiahrt
Tierney
Torres
Towns
Traficant
Turner
Upton
Velazquez
Vento
Visclosky
Walsh
Wamp
Waters
Watkins
Watt (NC)
Watts (OK)
Waxman
Weldon (FL)
Weldon (PA)
Weller
Wexler
Weygand
White
Whitfield
Wicker
Wise
Wolf
Woolsey
Wynn
Yates
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
NOT VOTING--11
Armey
Dunn
Farr
Flake
Forbes
Metcalf
Molinari
Mollohan
Pelosi
Schiff
Skaggs
{time} 1621
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the following
amendments be considered en bloc:
Miller amendment, as amended by Diaz-Balart, regarding Cuban cigars;
Fox of Pennsylvania amendment regarding Romania and NATO; Ney amendment
regarding assistance to Libya; Rohrabacher amendment regarding Russian
arms transfers to China; and the Paxon-Engel-Saxton amendment regarding
Palestinian land sales.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Goodlatte). Is there objection to the
request of the gentleman from New York?
Mr. SERRANO. I object, Mr. Speaker.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Objection is heard.
The Clerk will designate the next amendment.
The text of the amendment, as amended, is as follows:
Amendment offered by Mr. Miller of California, as amended:
At the end of title XVII, insert the following section:
SEC. 1717. CUBAN CIGARS.
It is the sense of Congress that the United States should
not prohibit the importation into the United States, or the
sale or distribution in the United States, of cigars that are
the product of Cuba, at such time as the government of Cuba
has (1) freed all political prisoners, (2) legalized all
political activity, and (3) agreed to hold free and fair
elections.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the amendment offered by
the gentleman from California [Mr. Miller], as amended.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
recorded vote
Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 366,
noes 59, not voting 9, as follows:
[Roll No. 197]
AYES--366
Ackerman
Aderholt
Allen
Andrews
Archer
Armey
Bachus
Baesler
Baker
Baldacci
Ballenger
Barcia
Barr
Barrett (NE)
Barrett (WI)
Bartlett
Barton
Bass
Bateman
Bentsen
Bereuter
Berman
Berry
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop
Blagojevich
Bliley
Blumenauer
Blunt
Boehlert
Boehner
Bonilla
Bonior
Bono
Borski
Boswell
Boucher
Boyd
Brady
Brown (FL)
Brown (OH)
Bryant
Bunning
Burr
Burton
Buyer
Callahan
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Canady
Cannon
Capps
Cardin
Carson
Chabot
Chambliss
Chenoweth
Christensen
Clement
Clyburn
Coble
Coburn
Collins
Combest
Condit
Cook
Cooksey
Costello
Cox
Cramer
Crane
Crapo
Cubin
Cummings
Cunningham
Danner
Davis (FL)
Davis (VA)
Deal
DeLauro
DeLay
Deutsch
Diaz-Balart
Dickey
Dicks
[[Page H3703]]
Dingell
Dixon
Doggett
Doolittle
Doyle
Dreier
Duncan
Dunn
Edwards
Ehrlich
Engel
English
Ensign
Eshoo
Etheridge
Evans
Everett
Ewing
Fawell
Fazio
Filner
Foley
Ford
Fowler
Fox
Frank (MA)
Franks (NJ)
Frelinghuysen
Frost
Gallegly
Ganske
Gejdenson
Gekas
Gephardt
Gibbons
Gilchrest
Gillmor
Gilman
Gonzalez
Goode
Goodlatte
Goodling
Gordon
Goss
Graham
Granger
Green
Greenwood
Gutierrez
Gutknecht
Hall (OH)
Hall (TX)
Hamilton
Hansen
Harman
Hastert
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Hefley
Hefner
Herger
Hill
Hilleary
Hinojosa
Hobson
Hoekstra
Hooley
Horn
Hostettler
Houghton
Hoyer
Hulshof
Hutchinson
Hyde
Inglis
Istook
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jenkins
John
Johnson (CT)
Johnson (WI)
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Kaptur
Kasich
Kelly
Kennedy (MA)
Kennedy (RI)
Kennelly
Kildee
Kim
Kind (WI)
King (NY)
Kingston
Klink
Klug
Knollenberg
Kolbe
LaFalce
LaHood
Lampson
Lantos
Largent
Latham
LaTourette
Lazio
Leach
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Lipinski
Livingston
LoBiondo
Lofgren
Lowey
Luther
Maloney (CT)
Maloney (NY)
Manton
Manzullo
Markey
Martinez
Mascara
Matsui
McCarthy (MO)
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McCrery
McDade
McDermott
McHugh
McInnis
McIntosh
McIntyre
McKeon
McNulty
Menendez
Metcalf
Mica
Millender-McDonald
Miller (CA)
Miller (FL)
Moran (KS)
Moran (VA)
Morella
Myrick
Neal
Neumann
Ney
Northup
Norwood
Nussle
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Owens
Oxley
Packard
Pallone
Pappas
Parker
Pascrell
Pastor
Paul
Paxon
Pease
Pelosi
Peterson (MN)
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pickering
Pickett
Pitts
Pombo
Pomeroy
Porter
Portman
Poshard
Price (NC)
Pryce (OH)
Quinn
Radanovich
Rahall
Ramstad
Redmond
Regula
Reyes
Riggs
Riley
Rivers
Rodriguez
Roemer
Rogan
Rogers
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Rothman
Roukema
Royce
Ryun
Salmon
Sanchez
Sandlin
Sanford
Sawyer
Saxton
Scarborough
Schaefer, Dan
Schaffer, Bob
Schumer
Scott
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shadegg
Shaw
Shays
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuster
Sisisky
Skeen
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (NJ)
Smith (OR)
Smith (TX)
Smith, Adam
Smith, Linda
Snowbarger
Solomon
Souder
Spence
Spratt
Stabenow
Stark
Stearns
Stenholm
Strickland
Stump
Stupak
Sununu
Talent
Tanner
Tauscher
Tauzin
Taylor (MS)
Taylor (NC)
Thomas
Thompson
Thornberry
Thune
Thurman
Tiahrt
Torres
Towns
Traficant
Turner
Upton
Vento
Walsh
Wamp
Watts (OK)
Weldon (FL)
Weldon (PA)
Weller
Wexler
Weygand
White
Whitfield
Wicker
Wise
Wolf
Woolsey
Wynn
Yates
Young (FL)
NOES--59
Abercrombie
Becerra
Brown (CA)
Castle
Clay
Clayton
Conyers
Coyne
Davis (IL)
DeFazio
DeGette
Delahunt
Dellums
Dooley
Ehlers
Fattah
Foglietta
Furse
Hilliard
Hinchey
Holden
Jackson (IL)
Jefferson
Johnson, E. B.
Kanjorski
Kilpatrick
Kleczka
Kucinich
Lewis (GA)
Lucas
McGovern
McHale
McKinney
Meek
Minge
Mink
Moakley
Murtha
Nadler
Nethercutt
Payne
Rangel
Roybal-Allard
Rush
Sabo
Sanders
Serrano
Skaggs
Smith (MI)
Snyder
Stokes
Tierney
Velazquez
Visclosky
Waters
Watkins
Watt (NC)
Waxman
Young (AK)
NOT VOTING--9
Emerson
Farr
Flake
Forbes
Hunter
Meehan
Molinari
Mollohan
Schiff
{time} 1629
Mr. MOAKLEY changed his vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
So the amendment, as amended, was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
{time} 1630
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Goodlatte). The Clerk will designate the
next amendment on which a separate vote has been demanded.
The text of the amendment is as follows:
Amendment offered by Mr. Fox of Pennsylvania:
At the end of the bill, add the following:
Sec. . Designation of Romania as Eligible for Assistance
Under NATO Participation Act of 1994.--
(1) Sense of the congress.--It is the sense of the Congress
that--
(A) Romania has made tremendous progress toward meeting the
criteria for accession into the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO) by establishing a mature and functioning
democracy, a free market economy, civilian control of the
armed forces, respect for the rule of law, respect for human
rights and civil liberties, and by implementing a strong
economic reform;
(B) Romania has further exhibited its strong commitment to
contribute to the stability, reconciliation, and cooperation
among the nations of the region by the very significant
signing of the basic political bilateral Treaty with Hungary
and recent initialing of a similar document with Ukraine;
(C) Romania has already demonstrated its willingness and
ability to contribute as a future NATO ally to strengthening
the military capabilities and strategic cohesiveness of the
Alliance by joining, first among Central and Eastern European
countries, the Partnership for Peace Program and by actively
participating alongside NATO allies in Bosnia, Angola,
Somalia, and Albania;
(D) due to its size, geo-strategic location, economic and
military potential, and huge popular support for NATO
integration, Romania is of immense and key strategic
importance to European stability; and
(E) Romania qualifies under section 203 of the NATO
Participation Act of 1994 to receive assistance in making the
transition to a full NATO membership and should be invited to
start accession negotiations at the earliest stage.
(2) Designation.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the President shall, pursuant to
section 203(d)(2) of the NATO Participation Act of 1994,
designate Romania as eligible to receive assistance under the
program established under section 203(a) of such Act.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the amendment offered by
the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Fox].
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
recorded vote
Mr. SERRANO. 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 417,
noes 10, not voting 7, as follows:
[Roll No. 198]
AYES--417
Abercrombie
Ackerman
Aderholt
Allen
Andrews
Archer
Armey
Bachus
Baesler
Baker
Baldacci
Ballenger
Barcia
Barr
Barrett (NE)
Barrett (WI)
Bartlett
Barton
Bass
Bateman
Becerra
Bentsen
Bereuter
Berman
Berry
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop
Blagojevich
Bliley
Blumenauer
Blunt
Boehlert
Boehner
Bonilla
Bonior
Bono
Borski
Boswell
Boucher
Boyd
Brady
Brown (CA)
Brown (FL)
Brown (OH)
Bryant
Bunning
Burr
Burton
Buyer
Callahan
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Canady
Cannon
Capps
Cardin
Carson
Castle
Chabot
Chambliss
Chenoweth
Christensen
Clay
Clayton
Clement
Clyburn
Coble
Coburn
Collins
Combest
Cook
Cooksey
Costello
Cox
Coyne
Cramer
Crane
Crapo
Cubin
Cummings
Cunningham
Davis (FL)
Davis (IL)
Davis (VA)
Deal
DeFazio
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
DeLay
Dellums
Deutsch
Diaz-Balart
Dickey
Dicks
Dingell
Dixon
Doggett
Dooley
Doolittle
Doyle
Dreier
Dunn
Edwards
Ehlers
Ehrlich
Engel
English
Ensign
Eshoo
Etheridge
Evans
Everett
Ewing
Fattah
Fawell
Fazio
Filner
Foglietta
Foley
Ford
Fowler
Fox
Frank (MA)
Franks (NJ)
Frelinghuysen
Frost
Furse
Gallegly
Ganske
Gejdenson
Gekas
Gephardt
Gibbons
Gilchrest
Gillmor
Gilman
Gonzalez
Goode
Goodlatte
Goodling
Gordon
Goss
Graham
Granger
Green
Greenwood
Gutierrez
Gutknecht
Hall (OH)
Hall (TX)
Hamilton
Hansen
Harman
Hastert
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Hefner
Herger
Hill
Hilleary
Hilliard
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hobson
Hoekstra
Holden
Hooley
Horn
Hostettler
Houghton
Hoyer
Hulshof
Hunter
Hutchinson
Hyde
Inglis
Istook
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
Jenkins
John
Johnson (CT)
Johnson (WI)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kasich
Kelly
Kennedy (MA)
Kennedy (RI)
Kennelly
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kim
Kind (WI)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kleczka
Klink
Klug
Knollenberg
Kolbe
Kucinich
LaFalce
LaHood
Lampson
Lantos
Largent
Latham
LaTourette
Lazio
Leach
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
[[Page H3704]]
Lipinski
Livingston
LoBiondo
Lofgren
Lowey
Lucas
Luther
Maloney (CT)
Maloney (NY)
Manton
Manzullo
Markey
Martinez
Mascara
Matsui
McCarthy (MO)
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McCrery
McDade
McDermott
McGovern
McHale
McHugh
McInnis
McIntosh
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinney
McNulty
Meehan
Meek
Menendez
Metcalf
Mica
Millender-McDonald
Miller (CA)
Miller (FL)
Minge
Mink
Moakley
Mollohan
Moran (KS)
Moran (VA)
Morella
Murtha
Myrick
Nadler
Neal
Nethercutt
Neumann
Ney
Northup
Norwood
Nussle
Oberstar
Olver
Ortiz
Owens
Oxley
Packard
Pallone
Pappas
Parker
Pascrell
Pastor
Paxon
Payne
Pease
Pelosi
Peterson (MN)
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pickering
Pickett
Pitts
Pombo
Pomeroy
Porter
Portman
Poshard
Price (NC)
Pryce (OH)
Quinn
Rahall
Ramstad
Rangel
Redmond
Regula
Reyes
Riggs
Riley
Rivers
Rodriguez
Roemer
Rogan
Rogers
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Rothman
Roukema
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Rush
Ryun
Salmon
Sanchez
Sanders
Sandlin
Sanford
Sawyer
Saxton
Scarborough
Schaefer, Dan
Schaffer, Bob
Schumer
Scott
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sessions
Shadegg
Shaw
Shays
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuster
Sisisky
Skaggs
Skeen
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (MI)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (OR)
Smith (TX)
Smith, Adam
Smith, Linda
Snowbarger
Snyder
Solomon
Souder
Spence
Spratt
Stabenow
Stark
Stearns
Stenholm
Stokes
Strickland
Stump
Stupak
Sununu
Talent
Tanner
Tauscher
Tauzin
Taylor (MS)
Taylor (NC)
Thomas
Thompson
Thornberry
Thune
Thurman
Tiahrt
Tierney
Torres
Towns
Traficant
Turner
Upton
Velazquez
Vento
Visclosky
Walsh
Wamp
Waters
Watkins
Watts (OK)
Waxman
Weldon (FL)
Weldon (PA)
Weller
Wexler
Weygand
White
Whitfield
Wicker
Wise
Wolf
Woolsey
Wynn
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
NOES--10
Condit
Conyers
Danner
Duncan
Hefley
Obey
Paul
Sabo
Watt (NC)
Yates
NOT VOTING--7
Emerson
Farr
Flake
Forbes
Molinari
Radanovich
Schiff
{time} 1639
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the next amendment
on which a separate vote has been demanded.
The text of the amendment is as follows:
Amendment offered by Mr. Ney:
At the end of the bill add the following (and conform the
table of contents accordingly):
DIVISION C--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SEC. 2001. PROHIBITION ON FOREIGN ASSISTANCE TO ANY COUNTRY
THAT ASSISTS LIBYA IN CIRCUMVENTING UNITED
NATIONS SANCTIONS.
(a) In General.--None of the funds made available in this
Act and the amendments made by this Act shall be made
available for assistance to any government if the President
determines that such country has assisted the Government of
Libya in violating sanctions imposed by United Nations
Security Council Resolution 748 (1992).
(b) Exception.--This section shall not apply if the
President determines that making such funds available is
important to the national security interest of the United
States.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the amendment offered by
the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Ney].
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
recorded vote
Mr. SERRANO. 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 427,
noes 0, not voting 7, as follows:
[Roll No. 199]
AYES--427
Abercrombie
Ackerman
Aderholt
Allen
Andrews
Archer
Armey
Bachus
Baesler
Baker
Baldacci
Ballenger
Barcia
Barr
Barrett (NE)
Barrett (WI)
Bartlett
Barton
Bass
Bateman
Becerra
Bentsen
Bereuter
Berman
Berry
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop
Blagojevich
Bliley
Blumenauer
Blunt
Boehlert
Boehner
Bonilla
Bono
Borski
Boswell
Boucher
Boyd
Brady
Brown (CA)
Brown (FL)
Brown (OH)
Bryant
Bunning
Burr
Burton
Buyer
Callahan
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Canady
Cannon
Capps
Cardin
Carson
Castle
Chabot
Chambliss
Chenoweth
Christensen
Clay
Clayton
Clement
Clyburn
Coble
Coburn
Collins
Combest
Condit
Conyers
Cook
Cooksey
Costello
Cox
Coyne
Cramer
Crane
Crapo
Cubin
Cummings
Cunningham
Danner
Davis (FL)
Davis (IL)
Davis (VA)
Deal
DeFazio
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
DeLay
Dellums
Deutsch
Diaz-Balart
Dickey
Dicks
Dingell
Dixon
Doggett
Dooley
Doolittle
Doyle
Dreier
Duncan
Dunn
Edwards
Ehlers
Ehrlich
Emerson
Engel
English
Ensign
Eshoo
Etheridge
Evans
Everett
Ewing
Fattah
Fawell
Fazio
Filner
Foglietta
Foley
Ford
Fowler
Fox
Frank (MA)
Franks (NJ)
Frelinghuysen
Frost
Furse
Gallegly
Ganske
Gejdenson
Gekas
Gephardt
Gibbons
Gilchrest
Gillmor
Gilman
Gonzalez
Goode
Goodlatte
Goodling
Gordon
Goss
Graham
Granger
Green
Greenwood
Gutierrez
Gutknecht
Hall (OH)
Hall (TX)
Hamilton
Hansen
Harman
Hastert
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Hefley
Hefner
Herger
Hill
Hilleary
Hilliard
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hobson
Hoekstra
Holden
Hooley
Horn
Hostettler
Houghton
Hoyer
Hulshof
Hunter
Hutchinson
Hyde
Inglis
Istook
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
Jenkins
John
Johnson (CT)
Johnson (WI)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kasich
Kelly
Kennedy (MA)
Kennedy (RI)
Kennelly
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kim
Kind (WI)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kleczka
Klink
Klug
Knollenberg
Kolbe
Kucinich
LaFalce
LaHood
Lampson
Lantos
Largent
Latham
LaTourette
Lazio
Leach
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Lipinski
Livingston
LoBiondo
Lofgren
Lowey
Lucas
Luther
Maloney (CT)
Maloney (NY)
Manton
Manzullo
Markey
Martinez
Mascara
Matsui
McCarthy (MO)
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McCrery
McDade
McDermott
McGovern
McHale
McHugh
McInnis
McIntosh
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinney
McNulty
Meehan
Meek
Menendez
Metcalf
Mica
Millender-McDonald
Miller (CA)
Miller (FL)
Minge
Mink
Moakley
Mollohan
Moran (KS)
Moran (VA)
Morella
Murtha
Myrick
Nadler
Neal
Nethercutt
Neumann
Ney
Northup
Norwood
Nussle
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Owens
Oxley
Packard
Pallone
Pappas
Parker
Pascrell
Pastor
Paul
Paxon
Payne
Pease
Pelosi
Peterson (MN)
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pickering
Pickett
Pitts
Pombo
Pomeroy
Porter
Portman
Poshard
Price (NC)
Pryce (OH)
Quinn
Radanovich
Rahall
Ramstad
Rangel
Redmond
Regula
Reyes
Riggs
Riley
Rivers
Rodriguez
Roemer
Rogan
Rogers
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Rothman
Roukema
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Rush
Ryun
Sabo
Salmon
Sanchez
Sanders
Sandlin
Sanford
Sawyer
Saxton
Scarborough
Schaefer, Dan
Schaffer, Bob
Schumer
Scott
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sessions
Shadegg
Shaw
Shays
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuster
Sisisky
Skaggs
Skeen
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (MI)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (OR)
Smith (TX)
Smith, Adam
Smith, Linda
Snowbarger
Snyder
Solomon
Souder
Spence
Spratt
Stabenow
Stark
Stearns
Stenholm
Stokes
Strickland
Stump
Stupak
Sununu
Talent
Tanner
Tauscher
Tauzin
Taylor (MS)
Taylor (NC)
Thomas
Thompson
Thornberry
Thune
Thurman
Tiahrt
Tierney
Torres
Towns
Traficant
Turner
Upton
Velazquez
Vento
Visclosky
Walsh
Wamp
Watkins
Watt (NC)
Watts (OK)
Waxman
Weldon (FL)
Weldon (PA)
Weller
Wexler
Weygand
White
Whitfield
Wicker
Wise
Wolf
Woolsey
Wynn
Yates
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
NOT VOTING--7
Bonior
Farr
Flake
Forbes
Molinari
Schiff
Waters
{time} 1648
So the amendment was agreed to.
[[Page H3705]]
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Goodlatte). The Clerk will designate the
next amendment on which a separate vote has been demanded.
The text of the amendment is as follows:
Amendment offered by Mr. Rohrabacher:
At the end of the bill add the following (and conform the
table of contents accordingly):
DIVISION C--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SEC. 2001. ASSISTANCE FOR THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.
None of the funds made available to carry out chapter 11 of
part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2295
et seq.) for fiscal years, 1998 and 1999 may be made
available for the Russian Federation if the Russian
Federation, on or after the date of the enactment of this
Act, transfers an SS-N-22 missile system to the People's
Republic of China.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the amendment offered by
the gentleman from California [Mr. Rohrabacher].
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
Recorded Vote
Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 244,
noes 184, not voting 6, as follows:
[Roll No. 200]
AYES--244
Abercrombie
Aderholt
Archer
Armey
Bachus
Baker
Ballenger
Barcia
Barr
Barrett (NE)
Barrett (WI)
Bartlett
Barton
Bateman
Bilbray
Blunt
Boehner
Bonilla
Bono
Boyd
Brady
Bryant
Bunning
Burr
Burton
Buyer
Callahan
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Canady
Cannon
Cardin
Castle
Chabot
Chambliss
Chenoweth
Christensen
Clement
Coble
Coburn
Collins
Combest
Condit
Cook
Cooksey
Costello
Cox
Cramer
Crane
Crapo
Cubin
Cunningham
Danner
Davis (VA)
Deal
DeFazio
DeLay
Diaz-Balart
Dickey
Doggett
Doolittle
Dreier
Duncan
Dunn
Ehlers
Emerson
English
Ensign
Everett
Ewing
Fattah
Fawell
Foley
Fowler
Fox
Franks (NJ)
Gallegly
Ganske
Gibbons
Gilchrest
Gillmor
Goode
Goodlatte
Goodling
Gordon
Graham
Granger
Green
Greenwood
Gutierrez
Gutknecht
Hall (TX)
Hansen
Hastert
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Hefley
Herger
Hill
Hilleary
Hinchey
Hobson
Hoekstra
Holden
Hostettler
Houghton
Hulshof
Hunter
Hutchinson
Hyde
Inglis
Istook
Jefferson
Jenkins
Johnson (CT)
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Kaptur
Kasich
Kelly
Kildee
Kim
Kingston
Kleczka
Klug
Largent
Latham
LaTourette
Leach
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Lipinski
Livingston
LoBiondo
Lucas
Luther
Manzullo
Markey
Mascara
McCollum
McCrery
McHale
McHugh
McInnis
McIntosh
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinney
Meehan
Metcalf
Mica
Miller (CA)
Miller (FL)
Moran (KS)
Myrick
Neal
Nethercutt
Neumann
Ney
Northup
Norwood
Nussle
Oxley
Packard
Pappas
Parker
Paul
Paxon
Pease
Pelosi
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pickering
Pitts
Pombo
Portman
Poshard
Pryce (OH)
Quinn
Radanovich
Ramstad
Redmond
Riggs
Riley
Rivers
Rogan
Rogers
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Royce
Ryun
Salmon
Sanders
Sanford
Saxton
Scarborough
Schaefer, Dan
Schaffer, Bob
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shadegg
Shaw
Shimkus
Shuster
Skeen
Skelton
Smith (OR)
Smith (TX)
Smith, Linda
Snowbarger
Solomon
Souder
Spence
Spratt
Stearns
Stenholm
Stump
Sununu
Talent
Tanner
Tauzin
Taylor (MS)
Thomas
Thornberry
Thune
Thurman
Tiahrt
Tierney
Traficant
Turner
Upton
Walsh
Wamp
Watkins
Watts (OK)
Weldon (FL)
Weller
Whitfield
Wicker
Wolf
Wynn
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
NOES--184
Ackerman
Allen
Andrews
Baesler
Baldacci
Bass
Becerra
Bentsen
Bereuter
Berman
Berry
Bilirakis
Bishop
Blagojevich
Bliley
Blumenauer
Boehlert
Bonior
Borski
Boswell
Boucher
Brown (CA)
Brown (FL)
Brown (OH)
Capps
Carson
Clay
Clayton
Clyburn
Conyers
Coyne
Cummings
Davis (FL)
Davis (IL)
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
Dellums
Deutsch
Dicks
Dingell
Dixon
Dooley
Doyle
Edwards
Ehrlich
Engel
Eshoo
Etheridge
Evans
Fazio
Filner
Foglietta
Ford
Frank (MA)
Frelinghuysen
Frost
Furse
Gejdenson
Gekas
Gephardt
Gilman
Gonzalez
Goss
Hall (OH)
Hamilton
Harman
Hastings (FL)
Hefner
Hilliard
Hinojosa
Hooley
Horn
Hoyer
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
John
Johnson (WI)
Johnson, E.B.
Kanjorski
Kennedy (MA)
Kennedy (RI)
Kennelly
Kilpatrick
Kind (WI)
King (NY)
Klink
Knollenberg
Kolbe
Kucinich
LaFalce
LaHood
Lampson
Lantos
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lofgren
Lowey
Maloney (CT)
Maloney (NY)
Manton
Martinez
Matsui
McCarthy (MO)
McCarthy (NY)
McDade
McDermott
McGovern
McNulty
Meek
Menendez
Millender-McDonald
Minge
Mink
Moakley
Mollohan
Moran (VA)
Morella
Murtha
Nadler
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Owens
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor
Payne
Peterson (MN)
Pickett
Pomeroy
Porter
Price (NC)
Rahall
Rangel
Regula
Reyes
Rodriguez
Roemer
Rothman
Roukema
Roybal-Allard
Rush
Sabo
Sanchez
Sandlin
Sawyer
Schumer
Scott
Serrano
Shays
Sherman
Sisisky
Skaggs
Slaughter
Smith (MI)
Smith (NJ)
Smith, Adam
Snyder
Stabenow
Stark
Stokes
Strickland
Stupak
Tauscher
Taylor (NC)
Thompson
Torres
Towns
Velazquez
Vento
Visclosky
Waters
Watt (NC)
Waxman
Weldon (PA)
Wexler
Weygand
White
Wise
Woolsey
Yates
NOT VOTING--6
Farr
Flake
Forbes
Lazio
Molinari
Schiff
{time} 1658
Mrs. CLAYTON, Mr. PETERSON of Minnesota, and Mr. PALLONE changed
their vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
Mr. NEAL of Massachusetts changed his vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
{time} 1700
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Goodlatte). The Clerk will report the
last amendment on which a separate vote has been demanded.
The Clerk read as follows:
Amendment offered by Mr. Paxon:
At the end of the bill add the following (and conform the
table of contents accordingly):
TITLE XVIII--OTHER FOREIGN POLICY PROVISIONS
SEC. 1801. CONDEMNATION OF PALESTINIAN DEATH PENALTY FOR LAND
SALES.
(a) Findings.--The Congress finds the following:
(1) In recent weeks, senior officials of the Palestinian
Authority have announced that the death penalty will be
imposed on anyone who sells land to a Jew, based on a now-
repealed Jordanian law, even in Israel.
(2) Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat stated on
May 21, 1997, ``Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited
. . . and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to
Israelis. . . . We are talking about a few traitors, and we
shall implement against them what is written in the law
books.''.
(3) Palestinian Authority Justice Minister Freih Abu
Middein stated on May 5, 1997, ``I warned the land dealers
several times through the media not to play with fire. For
us, whoever sells land to Jews and settlers is more dangerous
than collaborators. Therefore, they must be put on trial and
sentenced to death . . . They are traitors.''.
(4) Palestinian Authority Justice Minister Freih Abu
Middein stated on May 28, 1997, ``it is obligatory to forbid
the sale of land in Ramle, Lod, the Negev, and everywhere
else. . . . There are many [land dealers] who have fled from
Palestine, but anyone who has broken this serious law, will
remain a wanted fugitive by the Palestinian people, wherever
he may go.''.
(5) Legislation implementing the death penalty was prepared
for consideration by the Palestinian Legislative Council, but
has not yet been considered.
(6) Since the pronouncement of senior Palestinian leaders,
at least three Palestinians have been killed for selling land
to Israelis, some after visits or other scrutiny by
Palestinian security officials. There is further evidence
that the killings were committed by Palestinian security
officials.
(7) Three Palestinians were extrajudicially executed
following their sale of land to Israelis.
(8) The International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights, to which the United States is a party, states,
``sentence of death may be imposed only for the most serious
crimes in accordance with the law in force at the time of
commission of the crime. . . . This penalty can only be
carried out pursuant to a final judgment rendered by a
competent court.''.
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(9) The United States has made a financial commitment to
the Palestinian Authority with the understanding that the
rule of law would prevail, that there would be no official
sanction to extrajudicial killings or violations of human
rights, and that basic principles of peaceful and normal
relations would be upheld.
(10) Despite claims to the contrary, there is no law in
Israel forbidding the sale of land to Arabs or people of
other ethnicities or nationalities.
(b) Declarations of Policy.--The Congress declares the
following:
(1) The Congress condemns in the strongest possible terms
the abhorrent policy and practice of murdering Palestinians
for sales of land to Jews. Such actions are violations of
international law and the spirit of the Oslo agreements,
casting strong doubt as to whether the Palestinians are in
compliance with their commitments to Israel. The Congress
finds the endorsement and encouragement of this practice by
the most senior leadership of the Palestinian Authority to be
reprehensible.
(2) The Congress demands that this practice of murder and
racism be condemned and renounced by the Palestinian
leadership and that it will end immediately. If it does not,
the Congress should not permit the provision of direct aid to
the Palestinian Authority when the Middle East Peace
Facilitation Act of 1995 is considered for reauthorization.
The Congress urges the President to take this practice fully
into account as he now determines whether the Palestinian
Authority is in compliance with its commitments to Israel,
which he must do in accordance with the Middle East Peace
Facilitation Act of 1995.
(3) The Congress strongly urges the Palestinian Legislative
Council to reject categorically legislation imposing the
penalty of death on those who sell land to Israelis.
(c) Transmission of Copies.--The Clerk of the House of
Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate are directed
to transmit copies of this section to the President of the
United States, the Secretary of State, the United Nations
Secretary General, the United States Ambassador to Israel,
the Consul General of the United States in Jerusalem, Israel,
the Rais of the Palestinian Authority, all members of
Palestinian Legislative Council, and the office of the
Palestine Liberation Organization in Washington, District of
Columbia.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the amendment offered by
the gentleman from New York [Mr. Paxon].
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
Recorded Vote
Mr. SERRANO. 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 425,
noes 0, answered ``present'' 3, not voting 6, as follows:
[Roll No. 201]
AYES--425
Abercrombie
Ackerman
Aderholt
Allen
Andrews
Archer
Armey
Bachus
Baesler
Baker
Baldacci
Ballenger
Barcia
Barr
Barrett (NE)
Barrett (WI)
Bartlett
Barton
Bass
Bateman
Becerra
Bentsen
Bereuter
Berman
Berry
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop
Blagojevich
Bliley
Blumenauer
Blunt
Boehlert
Boehner
Bonilla
Bono
Borski
Boswell
Boucher
Boyd
Brady
Brown (CA)
Brown (FL)
Brown (OH)
Bryant
Bunning
Burr
Burton
Buyer
Callahan
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Canady
Cannon
Capps
Cardin
Carson
Castle
Chabot
Chambliss
Chenoweth
Christensen
Clay
Clayton
Clement
Clyburn
Coble
Coburn
Collins
Combest
Condit
Conyers
Cook
Cooksey
Costello
Cox
Coyne
Cramer
Crane
Crapo
Cubin
Cummings
Cunningham
Danner
Davis (FL)
Davis (IL)
Davis (VA)
Deal
DeFazio
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
DeLay
Dellums
Deutsch
Diaz-Balart
Dickey
Dicks
Dingell
Dixon
Doggett
Dooley
Doolittle
Doyle
Dreier
Duncan
Dunn
Edwards
Ehlers
Ehrlich
Emerson
Engel
English
Ensign
Eshoo
Etheridge
Evans
Everett
Ewing
Fattah
Fawell
Fazio
Filner
Foglietta
Foley
Ford
Fowler
Fox
Frank (MA)
Franks (NJ)
Frelinghuysen
Frost
Furse
Gallegly
Ganske
Gejdenson
Gekas
Gephardt
Gibbons
Gilchrest
Gillmor
Gilman
Gonzalez
Goode
Goodlatte
Goodling
Gordon
Goss
Graham
Granger
Green
Greenwood
Gutierrez
Gutknecht
Hall (OH)
Hall (TX)
Hamilton
Hansen
Harman
Hastert
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Hefley
Hefner
Herger
Hill
Hilleary
Hilliard
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hobson
Hoekstra
Holden
Hooley
Horn
Hostettler
Houghton
Hoyer
Hulshof
Hunter
Hutchinson
Hyde
Inglis
Istook
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
Jenkins
John
Johnson (CT)
Johnson (WI)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kasich
Kelly
Kennedy (MA)
Kennedy (RI)
Kennelly
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kim
Kind (WI)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kleczka
Klink
Klug
Knollenberg
Kolbe
Kucinich
LaFalce
LaHood
Lampson
Lantos
Largent
Latham
LaTourette
Lazio
Leach
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Lipinski
Livingston
LoBiondo
Lofgren
Lowey
Lucas
Luther
Maloney (CT)
Maloney (NY)
Manton
Manzullo
Markey
Martinez
Mascara
Matsui
McCarthy (MO)
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McCrery
McDade
McDermott
McGovern
McHale
McHugh
McInnis
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinney
McNulty
Meehan
Meek
Menendez
Metcalf
Mica
Millender-McDonald
Miller (CA)
Miller (FL)
Minge
Mink
Moakley
Mollohan
Moran (KS)
Moran (VA)
Morella
Murtha
Myrick
Nadler
Neal
Nethercutt
Neumann
Ney
Northup
Norwood
Nussle
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Owens
Oxley
Packard
Pallone
Pappas
Parker
Pascrell
Pastor
Paxon
Payne
Pease
Pelosi
Peterson (MN)
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pickering
Pickett
Pitts
Pombo
Pomeroy
Porter
Portman
Poshard
Price (NC)
Pryce (OH)
Quinn
Radanovich
Ramstad
Rangel
Redmond
Regula
Reyes
Riggs
Riley
Rivers
Rodriguez
Roemer
Rogan
Rogers
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Rothman
Roukema
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Rush
Ryun
Sabo
Salmon
Sanchez
Sanders
Sandlin
Sanford
Sawyer
Saxton
Scarborough
Schaefer, Dan
Schaffer, Bob
Schumer
Scott
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sessions
Shadegg
Shaw
Shays
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuster
Sisisky
Skaggs
Skeen
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (MI)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (OR)
Smith (TX)
Smith, Adam
Smith, Linda
Snowbarger
Snyder
Solomon
Souder
Spence
Spratt
Stabenow
Stark
Stearns
Stenholm
Stokes
Strickland
Stump
Stupak
Sununu
Talent
Tanner
Tauscher
Tauzin
Taylor (MS)
Taylor (NC)
Thomas
Thompson
Thornberry
Thune
Thurman
Tiahrt
Tierney
Torres
Towns
Traficant
Turner
Upton
Velazquez
Vento
Visclosky
Walsh
Wamp
Waters
Watkins
Watt (NC)
Watts (OK)
Waxman
Weldon (FL)
Weldon (PA)
Weller
Wexler
Weygand
White
Whitfield
Wicker
Wise
Wolf
Woolsey
Wynn
Yates
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--3
Bonior
Paul
Rahall
NOT VOTING--6
Farr
Flake
Forbes
McIntosh
Molinari
Schiff
{time} 1706
Mr. THUNE changed his vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the engrossment and third
reading of the bill.
The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, was read
the third time, and passed, and a motion to reconsider was laid on the
table.
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