[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 134 (Wednesday, October 1, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H8290]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        PERMANENT ENTRY AUTHORITY FOR CERTAIN RELIGIOUS WORKERS

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The unfinished business is the question of 
suspending the rules and passing the Senate bill, S. 1198, as amended.
  The Clerk read the title of the Senate bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the 
gentleman from Texas [Mr. Smith] that the House suspend rules and pass 
the Senate bill, as amended.
  The question was taken; and (two-thirds having voted in favor 
thereof) the rules were suspended and the Senate bill, as amended, was 
passed.
  The title of the Senate bill was amended so as to read:

       ``A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to 
     extend the special immigrant religious worker program, to 
     amend the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant 
     Responsibility Act of 1996 to extend the deadline for 
     designation of an effective date for paperwork changes in the 
     employer sanctions program, and to require the Secretary of 
     State to waive or reduce the fee for application and issuance 
     of a nonimmigrant visa for aliens coming to the United States 
     for certain charitable purposes.''.

  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.




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