[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 81 (Wednesday, June 11, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H3670-H3706]
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    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.

                              {time}  1038


                     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 
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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 
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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.

                              {time}  1200

  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.

                              {time}  1215

  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

                              {time}  1240

  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.
                                  ____

       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.
                                  ____

       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.
                                  ____

       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 
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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 
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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

[[Page H3687]]


     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

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     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

[[Page H3693]]


     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.

[[Page H3694]]

       (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

[[Page H3696]]


     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)

[[Page H3697]]



                        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.

[[Page H3698]]

  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

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     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.''.

[[Page H3706]]

       (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
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                        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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