[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 124 (Thursday, September 17, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H7930-H7937]
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                   CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS, FY 1999

  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I 
call up House Resolution 541 and ask for immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                              H. Res. 541

       Resolved, That upon the adoption of this resolution it 
     shall be in order without intervention of any point of order 
     to consider in the House the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 128) 
     making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1999, 
     and for other purposes. The joint resolution shall be 
     considered as read for amendment. The previous question shall 
     be considered as ordered on the joint resolution to final 
     passage without intervening motion except: (1) one hour of 
     debate equally divided and controlled by the chairman and 
     ranking minority member of the Committee on Appropriations; 
     and (2) one motion to recommit.

  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, for purposes of debate only, I yield the 
customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from South Boston, Massachusetts 
(Mr. Moakley) pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. 
All time yielded will be for the purposes of debate only.
  (Mr. DREIER asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks and include extraneous material.)
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, this rule provides for consideration of H.J. 
Res. 128, making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 1999. It is 
a closed rule providing for 1 hour of debate in the House, equally 
divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of 
the Committee on Appropriations. The rule provides that the joint 
resolution be considered as read for amendment and one motion to 
recommit.
  Mr. Speaker, the reality of divided government is that it takes a lot 
of hard work, tough decisions and sometimes uncomfortable 
confrontations to enact major legislation. Certainly, funding the 
trillion dollar Federal Government falls into that category. Honest 
disagreements exist between the congressional majority and the 
President, the House and the Senate, the Democrats and the Republicans, 
and even within the two party caucuses in both the House and the 
Senate.
  Every family that is forced to live on a budget, and that is most of 
the working people I know, understand that it is a lot harder to make 
spending decisions when they cannot just buy everything they want. That 
is the reality for working moms and dads who sit around the kitchen 
table and try to find the money for new school clothes, a short family 
vacation or finally replacing that beat-up old television set.
  Last year's historic balanced budget agreement was a great victory 
for American families because it finally forced the President and 
Congress to make their own hard spending decisions. Imposing a real 
budget on the voracious Federal bureaucracy makes the appropriations 
job a lot tougher. While I am sure most compassionate Americans would 
feel badly for the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Livingston) and his 
counterpart, the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey) who is not here on 
the floor, and the subcommittee chairman and ranking Democrats who have 
been asked to craft the 13 spending bills, I am also confident that 
they prefer those headaches to the rampant spending and deficits of not 
too many years ago.
  I am equally confident, Mr. Speaker, that we will overcome the 
hurdles in the way of the appropriation process and will keep the 
Federal Government open and functioning into and through the new fiscal 
year. I certainly know of the commitment of the gentleman from 
Louisiana (Mr. Livingston) and our entire Republican leadership team to 
do just that.
  This continuing resolution funds ongoing projects and activities of 
the Federal Government at current rates except in instances that the 
Congress and administration agree on lower levels. This spending 
authority expires on October 9 of this year or when the regular 
appropriations bills are enacted.
  Mr. Speaker, this is a clean continuing resolution without extraneous 
provisions, new projects or new spending initiatives. Recognizing the 
very real importance of focusing greater attention on making sure our 
government's mission-critical computer systems are able to handle the 
transition to the year 2000, this CR permits a funding increase for 
necessary computer conversions.
  Mr. Speaker, there is no question that nearly unprecedented political 
and budgetary challenges face this Congress at this time. However, I 
know we will rise above them and get the people's work done. This fair, 
clean, continuing resolution will give us the time we need to finish 
the fiscal year 1999 appropriations bills within the

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spending levels set out by the balanced budget agreement.
  It is incumbent upon every Member, Democrat and Republican, to join 
together to support this rule and the joint resolution so that we can 
get that hard work done without any interference in government 
operations.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  (Mr. MOAKLEY asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I thank my dear friend for many years, the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Dreier) my fellow traveler to El 
Salvador, the next in line to be chairman of the Committee on Rules, 
God willing according to him, for yielding me the customary 30 minutes.
  House Resolution 541 is a closed rule providing for the consideration 
of a continuing resolution that will take us through October 9. I am 
very pleased to report that this continuing resolution is clean and it 
does not include any extra material, and I am sure that, if it remains 
in this form, the President will sign the legislation ending any 
speculation about a government shutdown come October 1.

                              {time}  1045

  That having been said, Mr. Speaker, it is unfortunate that we find 
ourselves in this position. With only 13 days left in the fiscal year, 
only 1 of the general appropriation bills has been presented to the 
President, while only a handful of bills are in conference. There are 
still 2 bills left that have to be considered by the House, while the 
Senate has passed 9 of the 13 appropriation bills. To say that we are 
behind schedule, Mr. Speaker, is an understatement.
  But it is very encouraging that the chairman and ranking member of 
the Committee on Appropriations have presented us with a continuing 
resolution that they believe will afford enough time to make 
significant progress on the bills that are remaining. I certainly hope 
that they are able to resolve the many difficult issues that exist on 
these bills and are successful in getting all of the 13 bills to the 
President in a form he can sign.
  Mr. Speaker, I have no further requests for time, and I yield back 
the balance of my time.
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the magnanimity of my friend 
from South Boston, and I would like to follow suit and urge support of 
this rule.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and I move the 
previous question on the resolution.
  The previous question was ordered.
  The resolution was agreed to.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to the rule just adopted, I 
call up the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 128) making continuing 
appropriations for the fiscal year 1999, and for other purposes, and 
ask for its immediate consideration in the House.
  The Clerk read the title of the joint resolution.
  The text of House Joint Resolution 128 is as follows:

                             H. J. Res. 128

         Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the 
     following sums are hereby appropriated, out of any money in 
     the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and out of 
     applicable corporate or other revenues, receipts, and funds, 
     for the several departments, agencies, corporations, and 
     other organizational units of Government for the fiscal year 
     1999, and for other purposes, namely:
       Sec. 101. (a) Such amounts as may be necessary under the 
     authority and conditions provided in the applicable 
     appropriations Act for the fiscal year 1998 for continuing 
     projects or activities including the costs of direct loans 
     and loan guarantees (not otherwise specifically provided for 
     in this joint resolution) which were conducted in the fiscal 
     year 1998 and for which appropriations, funds, or other 
     authority would be available in the following appropriations 
     Acts:
       (1) the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
     Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
     1999;
       (2) the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the 
     Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999, 
     notwithstanding section 15 of the State Department Basic 
     Authorities Act of 1956, section 701 of the United States 
     Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, section 313 
     of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 
     and 1995 (Public Law 103-236), and section 53 of the Arms 
     Control and Disarmament Act;
       (3) the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1999, 
     notwithstanding section 504(a)(1) of the National Security 
     Act of 1947;
       (4) the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1999;
       (5) the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 
     1999;
       (6) the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related 
     Programs Appropriations Act, 1999, notwithstanding section 10 
     of Public Law 91-672 and section 15 of the State Department 
     Basic Authorities Act of 1956;
       (7) the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies 
     Appropriations Act, 1999;
       (8) the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, 
     and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999, 
     the House and Senate reported versions of which shall be 
     deemed to have passed the House and Senate respectively as of 
     October 1, 1998, for the purposes of this joint resolution, 
     unless a reported version is passed as of October 1, 1998, in 
     which case the passed version shall be used in place of the 
     reported version for purposes of this joint resolution;
       (9) the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1999;
       (10) the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies 
     Appropriations Act, 1999;
       (11) the Treasury and General Government Appropriations 
     Act, 1999; and
       (12) the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and 
     Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations 
     Act, 1999:

     Provided, That whenever the amount which would be made 
     available or the authority which would be granted in these 
     Acts as passed by the House and Senate as of October 1, 1998, 
     is different than that which would be available or granted 
     under current operations, the pertinent project or activity 
     shall be continued at a rate for operations not exceeding the 
     current rate: Provided further, That whenever the amount of 
     the budget request is less than the amount for current 
     operations and the amount which would be made available or 
     the authority which would be granted in these appropriations 
     Acts as passed by the House and Senate as of October 1, 1998, 
     is less than the amount for current operations, then the 
     pertinent project or activity shall be continued at a rate 
     for operations not exceeding the greater of the rates that 
     would be provided by the amount of the budget request or the 
     amount which would be made available or the authority which 
     would be granted in these appropriations Acts: Provided 
     further, That whenever there is no amount made available 
     under any of these appropriations Acts as passed by the House 
     and Senate as of October 1, 1998, for a continuing project or 
     activity which was conducted in fiscal year 1998 and for 
     which there is fiscal year 1999 funding included in the 
     budget request, the pertinent project or activity shall be 
     continued at a rate for operations not exceeding the lesser 
     of the rates that would be provided by the amount of the 
     budget request or the rate for current operations under the 
     authority and conditions provided in the applicable 
     appropriations Act for the fiscal year 1998.
       (b) Whenever the amount which would be made available or 
     the authority which would be granted under an Act listed in 
     this section as passed by the House as of October 1, 1998, is 
     different from that which would be available or granted under 
     such Act as passed by the Senate as of October 1, 1998, the 
     pertinent project or activity shall be continued at a rate 
     for operations not exceeding the current rate under the 
     appropriation, fund, or authority granted by the applicable 
     appropriations Act for the fiscal year 1999 and under the 
     authority and conditions provided in the applicable 
     appropriations Act for the fiscal year 1998: Provided, That 
     whenever the amount of the budget request is less than the 
     amount for current operations and the amounts which would be 
     made available or the authority which would be granted in 
     these appropriations Acts as passed by the House and the 
     Senate as of October 1, 1998, are both less than the amount 
     for current operations, then the pertinent project or 
     activity shall be continued at a rate for operations not 
     exceeding the greater of the rates that would be provided by 
     the amount of the budget request or the amount which would be 
     made available or the authority which would be granted in the 
     applicable appropriations Act as passed by the House or as 
     passed by the Senate under the appropriation, fund, or 
     authority provided in the applicable appropriations Act for 
     the fiscal year 1999 and under the authority and conditions 
     provided in the applicable appropriations Act for the fiscal 
     year 1998.
       (c) Whenever an Act listed in this section has been passed 
     by only the House or only the Senate as of October 1, 1998, 
     the pertinent project or activity shall be continued under 
     the appropriation, fund, or authority granted by the one 
     House at a rate for operations not exceeding the current rate 
     and under the authority and conditions provided in the 
     applicable appropriations Act for the fiscal year 1998: 
     Provided, That whenever the amount of the budget request is 
     less than the amount for current operations and the amounts 
     which would be made available or the authority which would be 
     granted in the appropriations Act as passed by the one House 
     as of October 1, 1998, is less than the amount for current 
     operations, then the pertinent project or activity shall be 
     continued at a rate for operations not exceeding the

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     greater of the rates that would be provided by the amount of 
     the budget request or the amount which would be made 
     available or the authority which would be granted in the 
     applicable appropriations Act as passed by the one House 
     under the appropriation, fund, or authority provided in the 
     applicable appropriations Act for the fiscal year 1999 and 
     under the authority and conditions provided in the applicable 
     appropriations Act for the fiscal year 1998: Provided 
     further, That whenever there is no amount made available 
     under any of these appropriations Acts as passed by the House 
     or the Senate as of October 1, 1998, for a continuing project 
     or activity which was conducted in fiscal year 1998 and for 
     which there is fiscal year 1999 funding included in the 
     budget request, the pertinent project or activity shall be 
     continued at a rate for operations not exceeding the lesser 
     of the rates that would be provided by the amount of the 
     budget request or the rate for current operations under the 
     authority and conditions provided in the applicable 
     appropriations Act for the fiscal year 1998.
       Sec. 102. No appropriation or funds made available or 
     authority granted pursuant to section 101 for the Department 
     of Defense shall be used for new production of items not 
     funded for production in fiscal year 1998 or prior years, for 
     the increase in production rates above those sustained with 
     fiscal year 1998 funds, or to initiate, resume, or continue 
     any project, activity, operation, or organization which are 
     defined as any project, subproject, activity, budget 
     activity, program element, and subprogram within a program 
     element and for investment items are further defined as a P-1 
     line item in a budget activity within an appropriation 
     account and an R-1 line item which includes a program element 
     and subprogram element within an appropriation account, for 
     which appropriations, funds, or other authority were not 
     available during the fiscal year 1998: Provided, That no 
     appropriation or funds made available or authority granted 
     pursuant to section 101 for the Department of Defense shall 
     be used to initiate multi-year procurements utilizing advance 
     procurement funding for economic order quantity procurement 
     unless specifically appropriated later.
       Sec. 103. Appropriations made by section 101 shall be 
     available to the extent and in the manner which would be 
     provided by the pertinent appropriations Act.
       Sec. 104. No appropriation or funds made available or 
     authority granted pursuant to section 101 shall be used to 
     initiate or resume any project or activity for which 
     appropriations, funds, or other authority were not available 
     during the fiscal year 1998.
       Sec. 105. No provision which is included in an 
     appropriations Act enumerated in section 101 but which was 
     not included in the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal 
     year 1998 and which by its terms is applicable to more than 
     one appropriation, fund, or authority shall be applicable to 
     any appropriation, fund, or authority provided in this joint 
     resolution.
       Sec. 106. Unless otherwise provided for in this joint 
     resolution or in the applicable appropriations Act, 
     appropriations and funds made available and authority granted 
     pursuant to this joint resolution shall be available until 
     (a) enactment into law of an appropriation for any project or 
     activity provided for in this joint resolution, or (b) the 
     enactment into law of the applicable appropriations Act by 
     both Houses without any provision for such project or 
     activity, or (c) October 9, 1998, whichever first occurs.
       Sec. 107. Appropriations made and authority granted 
     pursuant to this joint resolution shall cover all obligations 
     or expenditures incurred for any program, project, or 
     activity during the period for which funds or authority for 
     such project or activity are available under this joint 
     resolution.
       Sec. 108. Expenditures made pursuant to this joint 
     resolution shall be charged to the applicable appropriation, 
     fund, or authorization whenever a bill in which such 
     applicable appropriation, fund, or authorization is contained 
     is enacted into law.
       Sec. 109. No provision in the appropriations Act for the 
     fiscal year 1999 referred to in section 101 of this Act that 
     makes the availability of any appropriation provided therein 
     dependent upon the enactment of additional authorizing or 
     other legislation shall be effective before the date set 
     forth in section 106(c) of this joint resolution.
       Sec. 110. Appropriations and funds made available by or 
     authority granted pursuant to this joint resolution may be 
     used without regard to the time limitations for submission 
     and approval of apportionments set forth in section 1513 of 
     title 31, United States Code, but nothing herein shall be 
     construed to waive any other provision of law governing the 
     apportionment of funds.
       Sec. 111. This joint resolution shall be implemented so 
     that only the most limited funding action of that permitted 
     in the joint resolution shall be taken in order to provide 
     for continuation of projects and activities.
       Sec. 112. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint 
     resolution, except section 106, for those programs that had 
     high initial rates of operation or complete distribution of 
     fiscal year 1998 appropriations at the beginning of that 
     fiscal year because of distributions of funding to States, 
     foreign countries, grantees or others, similar distributions 
     of funds for fiscal year 1999 shall not be made and no grants 
     shall be awarded for such programs funded by this resolution 
     that would impinge on final funding prerogatives.
       Sec. 113. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint 
     resolution, except section 106, the rate for operations for 
     projects and activities that would be funded under the 
     heading ``International Organizations and Conferences, 
     Contributions to International Organizations'' in the 
     Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, 
     and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999, shall be the 
     amount provided by the provisions of section 101 multiplied 
     by the ratio of the number of days covered by this resolution 
     to 365.
       Sec. 114. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint 
     resolution, except section 106, the rate for operations for 
     the following activities funded with Federal Funds for the 
     District of Columbia, shall be at a rate for operations not 
     exceeding the current rate, multiplied by the ratio of the 
     number of days covered by this joint resolution to 365: 
     Corrections Trustee Operations, Offender Supervision, Public 
     Defender Services, Parole Revocation, Adult Probation, and 
     Court Operations.
       Sec. 115. Activities authorized by sections 1309(a)(2), 
     1319, 1336(a), and 1376(c) of the National Flood Insurance 
     Act of 1968, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.), may 
     continue through the date specified in section 106 of this 
     joint resolution.
       Sec. 116. Section 28f(a) of title 30, U.S.C., is amended by 
     striking the words ``The holder'' through ``$100 per claim.'' 
     And inserting ``The holder of each unpatented mining claim, 
     mill, or tunnel site located pursuant to the mining laws of 
     the United States before October 1, 1998 shall pay the 
     Secretary of the Interior, on or before September 1, 1999 a 
     claim maintenance fee of $100 per claim site.''. 
     Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the time for 
     locating any unpatented mining claim, mill, or tunnel site 
     pursuant to 30 U.S.C. 28g may continue through the date 
     specified in section 106 of this joint resolution.
       Sec. 117. The amounts charged for patent fees through the 
     date provided in section 106 shall be the amounts charged by 
     the Patent and Trademark Office on September 30, 1998, 
     including any applicable surcharges collected pursuant to 
     section 8001 of P.L. 103-66: Provided, That such fees shall 
     be credited as offsetting collections to the Patent and 
     Trademark Office Salaries and Expenses account: Provided 
     further, That during the period covered by this joint 
     resolution, the commissioner may recognize fees that reflect 
     partial payment of the fees authorized by this section and 
     may require unpaid amounts to be paid within a time period 
     set by the Commissioner.
       Sec. 118. Notwithstanding sections 101, 104, and 106 of 
     this joint resolution, until 30 days after the date specified 
     in section 106, funds may be used to initiate or resume 
     projects or activities at a rate in excess of the current 
     rate to the extent necessary, consistent with existing agency 
     plans, to achieve Year 2000 (Y2K) computer conversion.
       Sec. 119. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint 
     resolution, except section 106, the amount made available for 
     projects and activities for decennial census programs shall 
     be the higher of the amount that would be provided under the 
     heading ``Bureau of the Census, Periodic Censuses and 
     Programs'' in the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and 
     State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
     Act, 1999, as passed by the House, or the amount that would 
     be provided by such Act as passed by the Senate, or the 
     amount of the budget request, multiplied by the ratio of the 
     number of days covered by this resolution to 365.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 541, the 
gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Livingston), and the gentleman from 
Wisconsin (Mr. Obey) each will control 30 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Livingston).


                             General Leave

  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members 
may have 5 legislative days within which to revise and extend their 
remarks on H.J. Res. 128, and that I may include tabular and extraneous 
material.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Louisiana?
  There was no objection.
  (Mr. LIVINGSTON asked and was given permission to revise and extend 
his remarks.)
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Mr. Speaker, we are bringing H. J. Res. 128, a continuing resolution 
for fiscal year 1999, to the House today because it is likely that all 
13 of the regular appropriations bills will, unfortunately, not be 
enacted by the beginning of the fiscal year on October 1st. This 
resolution is needed to keep the government operating while we complete 
our work on our appropriations bills. Its duration is until October 
9th, or until the bills are enacted, whichever comes first.
  The fact that we are bringing this resolution to the floor today 
should surprise no one. For some time now, it has been apparent that 
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short-term funding authorization would be needed. It has also been 
widely known that this resolution would be straightforward and not 
include any extraneous controversial matters that might result in a 
government shutdown. Mr. Speaker, while I wish that this resolution 
were not needed, I am pleased that it is a noncontroversial proposal 
and should move quickly through the process, be signed into law, and 
give the time that we need to complete our work.
  Mr. Speaker, this resolution uses the same funding formula as was 
used last year. This formula generally allows programs to continue at 
current rates. If the budget request is lower than current rates for a 
particular program and both the House and the Senate agree that it 
should be lower, this CR, or continuing resolution, takes advantage of 
this and reduces the rate accordingly. This CR also includes the same 
restrictions on initiating new starts, maintaining last year's terms 
and conditions, and restricting the early release of monies to States, 
foreign countries, and grantees that have been previously included. 
Again, Mr. Speaker, it does not include any extraneous controversial 
matters.
  There is another significant aspect to this CR, and CRs in general, 
that I would like to point out to my colleagues, especially those who 
think that an automatic, permanent CR should be enacted so that we 
could avoid having to take the action that we are now taking. This 
continuing resolution includes several special funding provisions for 
programs for which the funding formula does not work. We call these 
funding anomalies. They happen every year. One cannot predict what they 
are or the solution to take care of them. But, they must be addressed 
or else significant undesirable impacts result if they are not 
addressed. So my point in bringing this to the attention of Members is 
that even if there were an automatic continuing resolution that we had 
adopted weeks or months ago, we would still be out here with an 
absolutely necessary technical adjustment to the permanent funding 
authority. This would give rise to an opportunity for extraneous 
mischief, the very thing that is supposed to be avoided in the 
automatic CR scenario. So, in my view, there is no way around the need 
for ad hoc legislation even with the automatic continuing resolution. 
The solution to this exposure is to have the member discipline not to 
add extraneous matters, as we have exercised today.
  Mr. Speaker, this is not the main reason to not enact an automatic 
CR. The main reason is it removes the pressure to get our regular work 
completed, in addition to biasing the negotiating process on annual 
funding bills. Now I want to talk about getting our work done.
  The Military Construction bill is on the President's desk. There are 
7 more bills in conference, and one more has been acted on by both the 
House and the Senate and is ready to go to conference, for a total of 9 
bills. Today the House should complete action on the Foreign Operations 
bill, giving us another bill, a tenth bill, ready for conference. Now, 
that leaves only 3 left. The House has passed 2 of the 3; the Senate 
has to pass all 3.
  There is still a lot of work in front of us, but we are getting 
there. Just because this continuing resolution gives us until October 
9th to finish our work, no one should think that we can relax now. It 
will take a sustained drive and the cooperation of all Members, both in 
this body and the other, to get our work done by this deadline.
  We face a situation on 7 or 8 of our bills where a veto has been 
threatened because of a lack of spending. Our bills are at the cap 
levels. This means that to increase spending on these bills, some form 
of offset would be required, or else we would exceed the caps that were 
agreed to between the Congress and the President last year when we 
reached an agreement on the balanced budget, which has reaped great 
rewards, Mr. Speaker. We are actually, even though that balanced budget 
agreement called for balancing of the budget by the year 2002, 
balancing the budget this year and have an expected surplus of at least 
$63 billion.
  But, returning to my previous point, this means that to increase 
spending on these bills, some form of offset would be required. Offsets 
can be in the form of reduced spending on other programs, including 
mandatory programs or entitlements or raising revenues in the form of 
user fees for taxes. This causes several problems. Mandatory offsets 
are easier said than done. Raising taxes or enacting user fees are 
definitely not in this committee's jurisdiction. And even if they were, 
I am not aware of any popular tax increases or user fee increases that 
we could easily put in our bills in order to satisfy the President's 
additional spending requests, or desires.
  This has been an historic problem for the committee. For years 
budgets have included these types of offsets to enable more spending. 
It is just that the amount of the needed offset is so much bigger this 
year than it has ever been. The spending in this year's budget request 
was $9 billion over the caps which would require that same amount in 
offsets. This is a very difficult problem to overcome, and still stay 
within the caps. Administration officials claim to have some ideas on 
offsets that could help us get the job done, and we asked to see those 
offsets that they had said they had as far back as July, some 2 months 
ago, but we still have not seen them. They promised, maybe the check is 
in the mail, but we have not seen it.
  Another complicating factor this year is that we are facing some 
large emergency funding needs that have to be addressed before we can 
complete our work this year. We will need to address funding for 
agriculture disasters and other agriculture problems. We will soon be 
in receipt of a request to increase security at our diplomatic posts 
around the world in the face of what happened in Tanzania and Kenya. We 
have urgent additional defense needs to maintain readiness while we are 
experiencing the additional costs of maintaining peacekeeping efforts 
all over the world. Then there is the unforeseen costs of making 
governmentwide computer conversions to account for the year 2000 
problem. These problems are very expensive and there may be more of 
them, and we need to address these in a bipartisan fashion at the same 
time we are developing the regular funding packages.
  Our plate is full. It might be fun to debate these issues this 
morning; it might be fun to blame everyone for the slow pace of our 
activities, but such debate really in the long run has little or no 
merit. We ought to pass this continuing resolution quickly so that we 
can concentrate on our work needed to finish up this fiscal year and 
this legislative season.
  This continuing resolution will keep the government open for a little 
bit longer than the next 3 weeks. We do not have much time. We need to 
get on with it.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  There is no objection to this continuing resolution on this side of 
the aisle. The resolution is perfectly reasonable. It is a straight, 
neutral continuation of funding, and it is essential in order to keep 
the government open. The President will sign it. He has made that quite 
clear in the statement he sent this morning, and I think every Member 
of the House, if there is a vote on this, ought to vote for it.
  Having said that, I think it is regrettable that we have been brought 
here by an unhappy set of circumstances. Last year we had a 
considerable degree of bipartisan cooperation between both parties, and 
as a result, we achieved I think some real substantive victories for 
the American people, something which this House on both sides of the 
aisle can take pride in, and we had an extremely civil year of doing 
the people's business.
  Everyone understands that the gentleman from Louisiana and I have a 
very good personal relationship. I consider him to be one of the best 
friends I have in the House and one of the best legislators in the 
House. I am proud of that relationship.
  However, there have been many external factors which have operated to 
make our job much more difficult this year. We have, in my view, 
instead of seeing a mindset of cooperation from the majority caucus, 
this year we have had much more of a mindset of confrontation on at 
least half of the appropriation bills that have moved through this 
House.

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  Under the law, we are supposed to have the budget resolution passed 
by the time we have our summer break, and we are supposed to have all 
13 appropriation bills passed by October 1.

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  We are in the situation, and this has not happened, I do not believe, 
since I have been here, where we still do not have a budget resolution 
passed. So we are operating on an ad hoc basis because of that. That 
makes it more difficult for this committee to do its work.
  It is not unprecedented for the House not to finish all of its 
appropriation bills before October 1. We were fortunate enough that we 
were able to do that the year that I was chairman. That was not because 
of any special action taken by me or by my committee. We did have a 
very good bipartisan working relationship that year. But we also had 
the leadership of both parties working together along with the White 
House to make it happen.
  We have not seen that this year, unfortunately. So as a consequence, 
not a single appropriation bill has yet been signed into law. I think I 
need to cite some of the reasons for that.
  First of all, the majority has chosen to produce a Labor, Health, 
Education, and Social Services bill which was so extreme in its nature 
that they have not been able to pass it in this House.
  The Senate, their Senate Republican counterparts have produced a 
significantly more moderate bill; still not what we need to have a 
signed product. But the very act of restoring some of the funding that 
the Senate has restored for programs like low income heating assistance 
and summer jobs, that very act demonstrates that the majority in the 
other body recognizes that the Labor, Health, Education appropriation 
bill produced by the majority in this House is so extreme that they do 
not want anything to do with it.
  On the Veterans Administration, HUD, EPA bill, that bill should have 
been on the President's desk. It has a number of problems associated 
with it which are solvable; but, yet, that bill has been thrown into 
turmoil because of the insistence of the majority that they attach a 
totally irrelevant housing authorization bill, a huge bill which the 
authorizing committee has not been able to get through the Congress.
  So they lay it onto the appropriation bill, asking the Committee on 
Appropriations to carry that extra freight, and that is more freight 
than the system will bear. So that has broken down.
  On interior, the bill that funds most of our natural treasurers and 
the preservation and stewardship of those treasures on an annual basis, 
that bill has been loaded down with extreme environmental riders in the 
other body, unnecessary roads through wilderness areas, additional 
logging of the Tongass.
  I was in Alaska last year. I was horrified when I overflew the 
Tongass and some of the other areas and saw some of the extreme clear-
cutting that have been going on by the native corporations up there. 
That had not fit my impression of what had been happening up there.
  We had a bill on the interior appropriation bill that would make that 
matter worse on the transportation appropriation bill. Again, we have 
seen an antienvironmental rider added, which takes a bill which ought 
to have been relatively noncontroversial. I was very surprised that 
that bill had not been sent to the President a long time ago. But 
riders like that have held that bill up as well.
  Agriculture. This Congress or rather the previous Congress voted for 
the horrendous so-called Freedom to Farm Bill which has turned into a 
Freedom-to-Fail-at-Farming bill because of the lack of a safety net 
that is provided for American farmers in that legislation. It is 
obvious the majority party does not know how to deal with that, so that 
appropriation bill is hung up also.
  That matter is then made worse by the refusal of the majority party 
to support funding for the IMF so that we can provide some additional 
stability in our export markets so that we have a greater ability to 
export our agricultural products to those areas. Yet, we are being 
denied an opportunity in this House even to vote on that crucial issue.
  The District of Columbia appropriation bill has been held up by a 
gratuitous decision on the part of this body to insist that the 
District of Columbia engage in an experiment on educational vouchers 
which many of us would not support if that were mandated on our own 
local districts.
  Then we come to the foreign operations bill. That bill in the past 
has been handled on a bipartisan basis, and the bill has largely been 
worked out before it has come to the floor. This time, for a variety of 
reasons, that has not happened, despite the agreement that was voiced 
in the Committee on Appropriations that the majority would have its 
language in the bill on the Mexico City family planning issue.
  We were told that, as part of that agreement, if we did not try to 
take the language out of the bill, we would have, on this side of the 
aisle an opportunity for an alternative to be offered so that we could 
have an up or down vote on the two viewpoints on that issue.
  The gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi) has been blocked from 
having a clean shot at an alternative. In addition to that, the 
Committee on Rules is preventing us from even having a vote on the IMF. 
That vote is central to helping to stabilize international exchange 
rates, to stabilize the international trading arrangements so that we 
have an opportunity to try to do something about the deep recession 
which is plaguing at least one-third of the world and threatens to 
cripple our own economic recovery. So we have had all kinds of these 
gratuitous roadblocks put in the way of our getting our business done.
  I would say it appears to me that this Congress has done an extensive 
job of investigating but a pitiful job of legislating when it comes to 
meeting the primary responsibility this Congress has each year, which 
is to keep the government open by funding the basic activities of 
government through the appropriations process.
  This committee has once again been thrown into the briar patch on 
many issue that we do not have the expertise to deal with and do not 
have the jurisdiction to deal with it.
  I would point out also that, well I will not comment on the Korean 
situation until we get the foreign ops bill up, but I just have to say 
this, I am disturbed by the fact that virtually none of these bills are 
really moving.
  It seems to me that there is a conscious decision on the part of a 
number of the players to want to push their bills into a giant omnibus 
appropriation bill at the end so that they can send a huge vehicle to 
the President and on a take-it-or-leave-it basis.
  I hope that is not true because that is the way that we get into an 
awful lot of trouble around here. We need to be trying to work out 
these individual bills. We do not need a situation to be developed 
where the Congress tries to take advantage of what the majority party 
may see as the perceived weakening of the President's position and use 
that to try to ram at him and stick in his ear a whole range of 
outrageous propositions that they know he is certainly not willing to 
accept, as we are not willing to accept.
  So I would simply say that I think the committee is doing the 
responsible thing in bringing this continuing resolution to the floor 
in the shape it is in. I do not think that the process by which we have 
gotten here has been particularly responsible. That is not the 
chairman's fault, but I do want to say that I expect we are going to 
have to have a number of additional short-term continuing resolutions 
because it certainly seems to me that it is not likely that we will 
have our work done for the next fiscal year by the time this pending 
continuing resolution expires in early October.
  I hope that there is a willingness to stay in session this year until 
our job is done on these bills.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I would only point out in response to the gentleman's 
comments that I sympathize with his frustration. We are at the end of 
the year. We have gone through a great deal of tug and pull on lots of 
legislation but we are down to the last two bills. In the next few 
weeks, we are going to get

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through those bills. Whether there is an omnibus bill or not is still 
too early to tell. I would love to make sure that we get each 
individual bill signed, but that takes cooperation from not only this 
body and the other body but the White House as well.
  They have indicated that they have no objection, the White House has 
no objection, to this particular resolution, and I would urge the House 
to adopt it in its current form, and I think that is just what we 
should do and let the rest of it take place in its natural order.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire how much time I have remaining?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. LaHood). The gentleman from Wisconsin 
has 16 minutes remaining.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Virginia (Mr. Moran).
  Mr. MORAN of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I thank the very distinguished 
ranking Member of the Committee on Appropriations for yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, I also thank the chairman of the Committee on 
Appropriations for those last words that the chairman uttered. They are 
music to our ears. The chairman committed himself to assure that these 
appropriations bills, all of them except military construction, which 
is now on the President's desk and we assume would be signed, those 
other bills will, in fact, get passed; no government shutdown, no 
delaying the government, getting the Congress' business done when it 
needs to be done.
  I understand that the principal reason why our appropriation bills 
have been delayed, at least from a procedural standpoint, is that this 
is the first time, since the budget act was passed, that we have no 
budget resolution. It was due April 15. So it has been very difficult 
for the Committee on Appropriations to fulfill its responsibility when 
we have no budget resolution.
  This CR is the right thing. I hope this is a precedent to have an 
appropriations bill, a continuing resolution which does not have any of 
the divisive issues, which is not designed to cause the President to 
veto it, which is simply designed to enable the government to function 
in the proper way. It shows it can be done.
  My fear is that we will get to October 9 and despite the best efforts 
of the Committee on Appropriations, Members will add things in 
appropriations bills that were not designed to enable the government to 
carry out its proper role but instead were designed for purely partisan 
political purposes, knowing they would force the President to veto any 
of those individual appropriations bills. At least if we have a 
continuing resolution, it should be similar to this bill today, one 
that will enable the government to continue functioning.
  The worst thing we could do is to shut down the government, to have a 
repeat of 1995. None of us want that to happen, particularly in the 
context that we are currently operating. So it is incumbent upon the 
leadership of the Committee on Appropriations, but most importantly the 
Members of Congress who may have ideas that they think are meritorious 
but in reality would only cause the government to stop functioning to 
keep our appropriations bills clean. Another government shutdown is the 
one thing that must be avoided.
  So let me just thank the leadership on both sides of the aisle for 
this continuing resolution. I trust it will be passed unanimously, and 
I trust that it is a precedent for the kind of bipartisan cooperation 
that serves this Congress well but most importantly serves this nation 
well.
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I would only say that I appreciate the comments of the 
gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Moran) and share his sentiment about the 
shutdown. I do not think anybody wants that on this side.

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  We certainly look forward to working with the Members of the minority 
to make sure that there is no shutdown. We hope that the administration 
and the President are equally committed to maintaining the continuity 
of government so that Federal employees will not be impacted 
unnecessarily.
  On his other point on the budget resolution, I would like to 
challenge the gentleman's recollection, because in the 21 years that I 
have been here, all of which have transpired since the passage of the 
budget resolution, I believe we have come through this process without 
a budget resolution on at least two occasions, and possibly more 
frequently than that back in the 1980s when the Democrats were in 
control.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Texas 
(Mr. Doggett).
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, it is encouraging to hear the gentleman 
from Louisiana (Mr. Livingston) indicate that the Republicans are not 
interested in shutting down the government again as they did in 1995. 
Certainly, if by voting for this resolution we can discourage them from 
doing that again, that would be important to the country.
  It seems these days that the ``all news'' channels and the semi-
pseudo-news channels are preoccupied with a new format of ``All Monica, 
All the Time,'' and I do not suppose that there is any way to get them 
to refocus on anything else like this mess. But I think it is worth 
noting the mess that we are in and how we got here.
  I serve on the Committee on the Budget and the way this process is 
supposed to work is that the Committee on the Budget is supposed to 
produce a timely budget resolution which this House is to adopt and the 
Senate is to adopt. That budget provides the format around which our 
Committee on Appropriations can approve the 13 appropriation bills and 
avoid a government shutdown.
  Mr. Speaker, there is only one problem. For the first time I guess in 
the history of the Budget Act, certainly in recent memory, there is no 
budget. Now, that is the Republican leadership. It is not a matter, as 
the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations indicated, of trying to 
cast blame everywhere. Blame does not belong everywhere. It just 
belongs one place. Right up here with the Republican leadership. They 
are leading. They have the majority and they claim and profess to be 
very concerned with fiscal responsibility, and yet we have come through 
this year and they cannot even produce a budget.
  It is, indeed, rather amusing to hear some of these commentators ask 
whether or not the government will slow down because of all the 
revelations and scandals that they are focusing on. If this House slows 
down any more, it will be going backwards. This is the House that could 
not produce a budget, that has produced exactly 1 of the 13 
appropriation bills over there on the President's desk.
  The people that are asking, well, can the President do his job? Well, 
the President cannot sign appropriation bills that are not on his desk. 
And right now, 2 weeks before the government is to conclude this fiscal 
year, it has no budget and one of 13 appropriation bills.
  Credit is due here. These folks had a preconceived notion that the 
best thing, given the fragile nature of their coalition, was to do as 
little as possible this year except perhaps occasionally painting 
Democrats as pagans. They have done a pretty good job of both. They 
have done a pretty good job of doing nothing. And whenever they tried 
to do something, such as the appropriations for all of the Health and 
Human Services in the United States, they could not agree between 
themselves.
  So, here we are 2 weeks before the conclusion of this fiscal year and 
we have yet to have a chance to vote on the floor of this House 
concerning the appropriations for all of the Health and Human Services 
operations throughout this whole country.
  Folks want to focus only on what has happened down at 1600 
Pennsylvania Avenue. This is a true crisis for the country, that if our 
Republican friends continue to pursue a policy of doing just next to 
nothing, as little as they possibly can, and if they continue to tuck 
into these appropriation bills anti-environmental provisions, as they 
did with some of the appropriation bills earlier that they could not 
pass on their own merit, but more dirty water and less clean air is 
something they can tuck into the fine print of the appropriation bills 
on the few that they

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do pass, if they continue to pursue that approach, then simply passing 
the resolution for which we are going to join in bipartisan support 
this morning will not get the job done and will not avoid a government 
shutdown.
  So, let us get to work, have clean appropriation bills that finance 
the government, that make up for about 9 months of doing next to 
nothing, get a budget out here and let us move the country along on the 
problems that really matter in the lives of families that are 
struggling to make a go out there across America.
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I do not believe I have any more requests for time, but 
let me simply say that as much as I appreciate the comments of the 
preceding speaker, I find it intriguing to hear a Member of the 
Committee on the Budget complain about the fact that there is no 
budget.
  As an appropriator, I regret that. But I would have to say that it 
really does not make any difference, because the leadership of this 
Congress in both the House and Senate agreed with this President last 
year, about a year ago, almost maybe 13 months ago, to balance the 
budget. When? By the year 2002. And they gave us a platform on how to 
do it.
  Mr. Speaker, I believe the gentleman must have been a party to that 
because he is on the Committee on the Budget. They gave us a program to 
balance the budget by the year 2002. Lo and behold, because of their 
good works, we have a balanced budget not in the year 2002, but this 
year. We have a surplus for the first time in my adult life, $63-
billion-plus surplus.
  We should be proud of that. Last year, the President of the United 
States, and I believe he is a Democrat, agreed with the leadership of 
both Houses of the Congress to set caps on the amount of spending 
within the discretionary part of the budget. We are proposing funding 
up to those caps. We are spending exactly the amount of money that the 
President agreed to. In fact, I dare say it is possible, with some 
emergency funding, we may exceed the spending of the cap levels. But we 
are basically adhering to rules on those caps.
  The gentleman that preceded me should be proud of that instead of 
haranguing us on the floor for no budget resolution, which means 
nothing anyway. We are spending what the President agreed to, and he 
should applaud that, and he should rejoice for all Americans are better 
off for our actions.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 3 minutes.
  Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Livingston), my good 
friend, has given an interesting speech. It really does not have a 
whole lot to do with what the previous speaker just said.
  The gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Livingston) has indicated that this 
is not an unprecedented situation. The fact is, I believe, if he will 
check the record he will find out, that we have never gotten to the end 
of the session without the passage of a budget resolution.
  I would point out also that the responsibility for that is very 
clear. It lies with the people who run the Congress, because the 
President does not sign the budget resolution. He has no role in 
determining what the budget resolution is. The budget resolution is a 
Congressional Budget Resolution. There is none, and that is why this 
institution has been forced to operate on an ad hoc basis.
  Mr. Speaker, I would point out also that just because there was a 
budget agreement to live within certain caps, does not mean that this 
Congress is free to load up all of these appropriation bills with anti-
environmental riders, with anti-consumer riders, with all kinds of 
unrelated and nongermane amendments, which turn relatively benign 
appropriation bills into highly controversial matters that the majority 
party itself is split over.
  So it just seems to me, and I do not want to continue this, I raise 
this simply because I believe that if we are going to get out of here 
before November 3, we must have a different mind-set than we have seen 
this year. This Congress must return and the majority party must return 
to the mind-set that they exhibited the year before when there was 
strong bipartisan cooperation, strong cooperation with the President, 
and as a result we had a year that I thought all of us could be proud 
of. This year has not been that kind of year because of the decision to 
revert to a confrontation mode on the part of the House Republican 
Caucus, at least some elements of it. I think it is that mind-set which 
must be changed if we are not going to be here two and three more times 
before the end of the calendar year, providing for yet another short-
term continuing resolution.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. LaHood). All time for debate has 
expired.
  The joint resolution is considered as having been read for amendment.
  Pursuant to House Resolution 541, the previous question is ordered.
  The question is on the engrossment and third reading of the joint 
resolution.
  The joint resolution was ordered to be engrossed and read a third 
time, and was read the third time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on passage of the joint 
resolution.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. 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.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 421, 
nays 0, not voting 13, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 445]

                               YEAS--421

     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 (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     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
     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
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fawell
     Filner
     Foley
     Ford
     Fossella
     Fowler
     Fox
     Frank (MA)
     Franks (NJ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Frost
     Furse
     Gallegly
     Ganske
     Gejdenson
     Gekas
     Gephardt
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Goodling
     Gordon
     Graham
     Granger
     Green
     Greenwood
     Gutierrez
     Gutknecht
     Hall (OH)
     Hall (TX)
     Hamilton
     Hansen
     Harman
     Hastert
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     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
     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
     Lee
     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

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     McCarthy (MO)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McCrery
     McDade
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McHale
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McIntosh
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Menendez
     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
     Price (NC)
     Quinn
     Radanovich
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Rangel
     Redmond
     Regula
     Reyes
     Riley
     Rivers
     Rodriguez
     Roemer
     Rogan
     Rogers
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Rothman
     Roukema
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Ryun
     Sabo
     Salmon
     Sanchez
     Sanders
     Sandlin
     Sanford
     Sawyer
     Saxton
     Scarborough
     Schaefer, Dan
     Schaffer, Bob
     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
     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
     Wilson
     Wise
     Wolf
     Woolsey
     Wynn
     Yates
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--13

     Fazio
     Forbes
     Gonzalez
     Goss
     Hefner
     John
     Metcalf
     Poshard
     Pryce (OH)
     Riggs
     Royce
     Schumer
     Stokes

                              {time}  1146

  Mr. DOOLEY of California and Mr. CALLAHAN changed their vote from 
``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So the joint resolution was passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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