[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 122 (Tuesday, September 15, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H7783-H7784]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING MARIJUANA

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The pending business is the question of 
suspending the rules and passing the joint resolution, House Joint 
Resolution 117, as amended.
  The Clerk read the title of the joint resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the 
gentleman from Florida (Mr. McCollum) that the House suspend the rules 
and pass the joint resolution, House Joint Resolution 117, as amended, 
on which the yeas and nays are ordered.
  This will be a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 310, 
nays 93, not voting 31, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 435]

                               YEAS--310

     Abercrombie
     Aderholt
     Andrews
     Archer
     Armey
     Bachus
     Baesler
     Baker
     Baldacci
     Barcia
     Barr
     Barrett (NE)
     Barrett (WI)
     Bartlett
     Barton
     Bass
     Bateman
     Bentsen
     Bereuter
     Berry
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop
     Blagojevich
     Bliley
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bono
     Borski
     Boswell
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (OH)
     Bryant
     Bunning
     Burr
     Burton
     Buyer
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Camp
     Canady
     Cannon
     Capps
     Cardin
     Castle
     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
     DeLay
     Deutsch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dicks
     Dooley
     Doolittle
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Edwards
     Ehlers
     Emerson
     English
     Ensign
     Etheridge
     Evans
     Everett
     Ewing
     Fattah
     Fawell
     Foley
     Forbes
     Fossella
     Fowler
     Fox
     Franks (NJ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Frost
     Gallegly
     Ganske
     Gekas
     Gephardt
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Goodling
     Gordon
     Graham
     Granger
     Green
     Greenwood
     Gutknecht
     Hall (OH)
     Hall (TX)
     Hamilton
     Hansen
     Hastert
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Herger
     Hill
     Hilleary
     Hinojosa
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Holden
     Hooley
     Horn
     Hostettler
     Houghton
     Hoyer
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Inglis
     Istook
     Jefferson
     Jenkins
     John
     Johnson (WI)
     Jones
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kasich
     Kelly
     Kennelly
     Kildee
     Kim
     Kind (WI)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kleczka
     Klink
     Klug
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Kucinich
     LaFalce
     LaHood
     Lampson
     Largent
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Lazio
     Leach
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     Lipinski
     Livingston
     LoBiondo
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Maloney (CT)
     Maloney (NY)
     Manzullo
     Mascara
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McCrery
     McHale
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McIntosh
     McKeon
     McNulty
     Menendez
     Metcalf
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Mollohan
     Moran (KS)
     Murtha
     Myrick
     Nethercutt
     Neumann
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Ortiz
     Oxley
     Packard
     Pallone
     Pappas
     Parker
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Paxon
     Pease
     Peterson (MN)
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     Pickering
     Pickett
     Pitts
     Pombo
     Pomeroy
     Portman
     Price (NC)
     Quinn
     Radanovich
     Ramstad
     Redmond
     Regula
     Reyes
     Riley
     Rodriguez
     Roemer
     Rogan
     Rogers
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Rothman
     Roukema
     Ryun
     Salmon
     Sandlin
     Sanford
     Sawyer
     Scarborough
     Schaefer, Dan
     Schaffer, Bob
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Sisisky
     Skeen
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (OR)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith, Adam
     Snowbarger
     Snyder
     Solomon
     Souder
     Spence
     Spratt
     Stabenow
     Stearns
     Stenholm
     Strickland
     Stump
     Stupak
     Sununu
     Talent
     Tanner
     Taylor (MS)
     Taylor (NC)
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thornberry
     Thune
     Thurman
     Tiahrt
     Traficant
     Turner
     Upton
     Visclosky
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Watkins
     Watts (OK)
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Weygand
     White
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                                NAYS--93

     Ackerman
     Allen
     Becerra
     Berman
     Blumenauer
     Bonior
     Brown (CA)
     Brown (FL)
     Campbell
     Carson
     Clay
     Conyers
     Coyne
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Dingell
     Dixon
     Doggett
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Fazio
     Filner
     Ford
     Frank (MA)
     Furse
     Gejdenson
     Gutierrez
     Hastings (FL)
     Hilliard
     Hinchey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kennedy (MA)
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kilpatrick
     Lantos
     Lee
     Lofgren
     Luther
     Markey
     Martinez
     McCarthy (MO)
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McKinney
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (CA)
     Minge
     Mink
     Moakley
     Moran (VA)
     Morella
     Neal
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Paul
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Porter
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Rivers
     Rohrabacher
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Sabo
     Sanchez
     Sanders
     Scott
     Serrano
     Sherman
     Skaggs
     Stark
     Stokes
     Tauscher
     Tierney
     Torres
     Vento
     Waters
     Watt (NC)
     Waxman
     Wexler
     Wise
     Woolsey
     Yates

                             NOT VOTING--31

     Ballenger
     Boucher
     Clayton
     Dickey
     Ehrlich
     Engel
     Gonzalez
     Goss
     Harman
     Hefner
     Hutchinson
     Hyde
     Johnson, Sam
     Lewis (GA)
     Manton
     McDade
     McIntyre
     Meeks (NY)
     Nadler
     Owens
     Poshard
     Pryce (OH)
     Riggs
     Royce
     Saxton
     Schumer
     Smith, Linda
     Tauzin
     Towns
     Velazquez
     Wynn

                              {time}  1929

  The Clerk announced the following pair:
  On this vote:

       Mrs. Linda Smith of Washington for, with Ms. Velazques 
     against.


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  So (two-thirds having voted in favor thereof) the rules were 
suspended and the joint resolution was passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  The title of the joint resolution was amended so as to read: ``Joint 
resolution expressing the sense of Congress in support of the existing 
Federal legal process for determining the safety and efficacy of drugs, 
including marijuana and other Schedule I drugs, for medicinal use.''.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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