[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 122 (Tuesday, September 15, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H7780]
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     APPOINTMENT OF CONFEREES ON H.R. 4103, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
                        APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1999

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The pending business is the question de novo 
of agreeing to the motion to instruct conferees on H.R. 4103.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to instruct 
offered by the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey).
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. OBEY. 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.
  Without objection, this 15-minute vote on the motion to instruct will 
be followed by a 5-minute vote on a motion to permit closed meetings of 
the conference, without prejudice to the authority for further 5-minute 
votes in this series.
  There was no objection.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 348, 
nays 61, not voting 25, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 431]

                               YEAS--348

     Ackerman
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Andrews
     Archer
     Armey
     Baesler
     Baker
     Baldacci
     Ballenger
     Barcia
     Barrett (NE)
     Barrett (WI)
     Barton
     Bass
     Becerra
     Bentsen
     Bereuter
     Berman
     Berry
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop
     Blagojevich
     Bliley
     Blumenauer
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bonior
     Bono
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brown (CA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brown (OH)
     Bryant
     Bunning
     Burr
     Burton
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canady
     Cannon
     Capps
     Cardin
     Carson
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chenoweth
     Christensen
     Clay
     Clyburn
     Coburn
     Combest
     Condit
     Conyers
     Cook
     Cooksey
     Costello
     Cox
     Coyne
     Cramer
     Crane
     Crapo
     Cummings
     Cunningham
     Danner
     Davis (FL)
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Deutsch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Dixon
     Doggett
     Dooley
     Doolittle
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Edwards
     Ehlers
     Ehrlich
     Emerson
     English
     Ensign
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Evans
     Everett
     Ewing
     Farr
     Fawell
     Fazio
     Filner
     Foley
     Forbes
     Ford
     Fowler
     Fox
     Frank (MA)
     Franks (NJ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Furse
     Gallegly
     Ganske
     Gejdenson
     Gephardt
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Goodlatte
     Graham
     Granger
     Green
     Greenwood
     Gutierrez
     Gutknecht
     Hall (OH)
     Hall (TX)
     Hamilton
     Hansen
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Hefner
     Herger
     Hill
     Hilleary
     Hilliard
     Hinchey
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Hooley
     Horn
     Houghton
     Hoyer
     Hulshof
     Inglis
     Istook
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Jenkins
     John
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson (WI)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones
     Kaptur
     Kasich
     Kelly
     Kennedy (MA)
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kennelly
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     Kim
     Kind (WI)
     Kingston
     Kleczka
     Klug
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Kucinich
     LaFalce
     Lampson
     Lantos
     Largent
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Lazio
     Leach
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     Lipinski
     Livingston
     LoBiondo
     Lofgren
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Luther
     Maloney (CT)
     Maloney (NY)
     Manzullo
     Markey
     Martinez
     Mascara
     Matsui
     McCarthy (MO)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McCrery
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McHale
     McInnis
     McIntosh
     McKeon
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Menendez
     Metcalf
     Mica
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (CA)
     Miller (FL)
     Minge
     Moakley
     Moran (KS)
     Moran (VA)
     Morella
     Myrick
     Neal
     Nethercutt
     Neumann
     Ney
     Northup
     Nussle
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Oxley
     Packard
     Pallone
     Pappas
     Parker
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Paul
     Paxon
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peterson (MN)
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     Pickering
     Pickett
     Pitts
     Pombo
     Pomeroy
     Porter
     Portman
     Price (NC)
     Quinn
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Rangel
     Redmond
     Regula
     Rivers
     Roemer
     Rogan
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Rothman
     Roukema
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Rush
     Sabo
     Salmon
     Sanchez
     Sanders
     Sandlin
     Sanford
     Sawyer
     Saxton
     Scarborough
     Schaefer, Dan
     Schaffer, Bob
     Scott
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Skaggs
     Skeen
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (OR)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith, Adam
     Snowbarger
     Snyder
     Solomon
     Souder
     Spence
     Spratt
     Stabenow
     Stark
     Stearns
     Stenholm
     Stokes
     Strickland
     Stupak
     Sununu
     Talent
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thurman
     Tiahrt
     Tierney
     Traficant
     Turner
     Upton
     Vento
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Waters
     Watkins
     Watt (NC)
     Watts (OK)
     Waxman
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Wexler
     Weygand
     White
     Whitfield
     Wilson
     Wise
     Wolf
     Woolsey
     Yates
     Young (FL)

                                NAYS--61

     Abercrombie
     Bachus
     Barr
     Bartlett
     Bateman
     Borski
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Buyer
     Callahan
     Chambliss
     Clement
     Coble
     Collins
     Cubin
     Deal
     Dickey
     Fattah
     Fossella
     Frost
     Gekas
     Gibbons
     Goode
     Goodling
     Gordon
     Hastert
     Hinojosa
     Holden
     Hostettler
     Hunter
     Hutchinson
     Hyde
     Johnson, Sam
     Kanjorski
     King (NY)
     Klink
     LaHood
     McHugh
     Mink
     Mollohan
     Murtha
     Norwood
     Oberstar
     Pease
     Radanovich
     Reyes
     Rodriguez
     Rogers
     Ryun
     Sisisky
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Stump
     Taylor (MS)
     Taylor (NC)
     Thornberry
     Thune
     Visclosky
     Weldon (FL)
     Wicker
     Young (AK)

                             NOT VOTING--25

     Clayton
     Davis (VA)
     DeLay
     Engel
     Gonzalez
     Goss
     Harman
     Lewis (GA)
     Manton
     McDade
     McIntyre
     Meeks (NY)
     Nadler
     Owens
     Poshard
     Pryce (OH)
     Riggs
     Riley
     Schumer
     Smith, Linda
     Tauzin
     Torres
     Towns
     Velazquez
     Wynn

                              {time}  1954

  Messrs. YOUNG of Alaska, HOLDEN, BRADY of Texas, HUNTER, ABERCROMBIE, 
MOLLOHAN and Mrs. MINK of Hawaii changed their vote from ``yea'' to 
``nay.''
  Messrs. LINDER, BURR of North Carolina, PICKERING, SCARBOROUGH, SMITH 
of Michigan, ADERHOLT, EVERETT, BONILLA, Mrs. MYRICK and Mrs. CHENOWETH 
changed their vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So the motion was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.


                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mr. RILEY. Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably detained and was not 
present for rollcall No. 431, a motion to instruct conferees to the 
fiscal year 1999 DOD appropriations bill. Had I been present, I would 
have voted ``nay.''
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the Chair appoints the 
following conferees: Messrs. Young of Florida, McDade, Lewis of 
California, Skeen, Hobson, Bonilla, Nethercutt, Istook, Cunningham, 
Livingston, Murtha, Dicks, Hefner, Sabo, Dixon, Visclosky and Obey.
  There was no objection.

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