[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 139 (Wednesday, October 7, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H9729-H9740]
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  CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 3694, INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR 
                            FISCAL YEAR 1999

  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to the unanimous consent agreement of 
October 6, 1998, I call up the conference report on the bill (H.R. 
3694) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1999 for intelligence 
and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, 
the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency 
Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Sessions). Pursuant to the order of the 
House of Tuesday, October 6, 1998, the conference report is considered 
as having been read.
  (For conference report and statement, see proceedings of the House of 
October 5, 1998, at page H9522.)
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Florida (Mr. Goss) and 
the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Dicks) each will control 30 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Goss).
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I know that the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Dicks) is on his way 
to the Chamber at this time, and I am going to read from a prepared 
opening statement, which I know the gentleman will have access to, so I 
am going to proceed with my remarks.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the conference report to accompany 
H.R. 3694, the Intelligence Reauthorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999.
  This has been a busy summer from an intelligence and national 
security vantage point. Since House passage of H.R. 3694 in early May, 
we have witnessed nuclear tests in Pakistan and India; terrorist 
attacks on 2 of our embassies in Africa, and U.S. counterstrikes 
against terrorist-linked targets; a worsening world financial crisis 
that has spread from Asia to Russia and threatens now parts of Latin 
America; the eviction of United Nations weapons inspectors from Iraq; a 
deepening crisis in Kosovo that could embroil NATO troops before the 
end of the year, if not the end of this speech; and numerous ballistic 
missile tests by hostile and potentially hostile countries.
  In addition, 2 major studies of our intelligence capabilities and 
processes were conducted this summer. The Rumsfeld Commission study 
brought to light the increasing pace of ballistic missile proliferation 
and the shrinking warning times that we can expect given our current 
intelligence collection posture. The Jeremiah Report, conducted in the 
wake of India's nuclear tests, highlighted several gaps in our 
analytical and reporting processes. Both reports expressed concern that 
foreign governments are increasingly able to hide their activities from 
us due, apparently, to their familiarity with our intelligence methods 
and our capabilities.
  The point of recapitulating these developments and reports is to 
highlight the continuing critical need for good intelligence in the 
post-Cold War world, in this era that we find ourselves today. This 
after-Cold War era is an era that has seen a significant downsizing of 
our armed forces.
  What I have not spelled out is the successes the community has had as 
well. All those bad things that did not happen and do not happen 
because we do have good intelligence capability, even though we have 
downsized that as well, and we need to reverse that trend.
  Good intelligence enables policymakers in the government to head off 
crises before they occur. It provides an advantage to our military 
planners in everything from procurement to deployment and saves the 
lives of citizens and soldiers, and saving the lives of citizens and 
soldiers is certainly something we are about.
  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased that this conference report incorporates 
the lessons learned from this busy summer. It provides needed 
investments in modernization of signals intelligence; revitalization of 
human intelligence, or espionage, capabilities; strengthening all-
source analysis; and enhancement of covert action capabilities. It also 
includes a significant increase in research and development funding to 
ensure that we can stay one step ahead of the pack and compensate for 
foreign denial and deception practices, which, as I said, have gotten 
ever better.
  This conference report provides new protections for ``whistle-
blowers,'' intelligence community employees who report on potential 
problems within their agencies, even though it may involve classified 
information. I believe we have struck an appropriate balance between 
the need to preserve employees' rights and the unique retirement within 
the intelligence arena to safeguard classified information and, of

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course, national security. We have created a front door for rank and 
file information-sharing with Congress. This is a good thing.
  I know that this legislation is the product of a bipartisan, 
bicameral effort. I am grateful for the hard work of all of our Members 
and the entire committee staff. I know that it took many long hours and 
a few sleepless nights to get this conference report completed.
  I will call particular attention to the effort of my friend, the 
gentleman from Washington (Mr. Dicks), the ranking member of this 
committee, for his dedication to intelligence and national security 
matters. I am disappointed to say that this will be his last appearance 
on the House floor managing an intelligence authorization bill, I am 
told. The Rules of the House require the rotation of all members of our 
committee. The gentleman from Washington (Mr. Dicks) has been a hard-
charging, ardent supporter of improving U.S. intelligence capabilities, 
especially those in the advanced technical area. Indeed, his expertise 
in that area is unrivaled, in my view, on Capitol Hill.
  While I cannot say that we have always agreed on the substance of all 
issues during my 2 years as chairman of the committee, I think it is 
very fair to say that we have always agreed to sit down and do the 
extra work necessary to resolve issues in a reasonable manner, and I 
would add in a very pleasant way.
  Mr. Speaker, I say to the gentleman that both the community and the 
Committee on Intelligence have benefited from his 8 years of service 
here and I know that we can continue to count on his input, wisdom and 
judgment on crucial matters in the years to come on which he has so 
much expertise.
  I will also pay tribute to the others members who are rotating off 
the committee or retiring next year. We have been extremely fortunate 
to have the distinguished chairman of the Subcommittee on National 
Security, the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young) as a senior member of 
the Committee on Intelligence. Indeed, this has been his second tenure 
on the committee for a total of 14 years. We have benefited from the 
gentleman's wisdom and his willingness to find the resources necessary 
for intelligence in some very lean years for overall defense spending, 
and I thank him, particularly for his help in the committee this past 
week when I could not be here and he substituted for me very ably. I 
know I can count on him too for his advise and assistance.
  The committee is further losing 2 valued democratic members to 
retirement: the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Harman), and the 
gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Skaggs). We thank them for their service 
and dedication and wish them luck in their new endeavors, and I 
personally thank them for the commitment and time that they have given 
on so many issues on the committee.
  Finally I would be remiss if I did not mention the recent departures 
of professional staff members Mary Engebreth and Susan Ouellete, 2 
women who have worked on the committee since 1995. Susan was our expert 
in the areas of analysis and defense intelligence, and Mary was our 
resident rocket scientist. We are going to miss Mary, and we are going 
to miss Susan as well.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this conference report.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. DICKS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  First, I want to thank the distinguished chairman and we want to 
welcome him back, although this has been a difficult time for he and 
his family. We are certainly glad to hear the positive news about his 
wife, Mariel.
  I want to say that I appreciate his kind remarks. It has been a great 
pleasure to serve on this committee for eight years, and we have had 
bipartisan cooperation. I do not think there has ever been a time when 
we have not come to this floor unified behind the intelligence bill, 
and I think that is good. This is one area where partisanship should 
not be a part. It should be only how do we get the best intelligence 
for the American people.
  Mr. Speaker, the goal of any conference committee should be to 
produce an agreement that improves the bills submitted to it. I believe 
the conference on the intelligence authorization for fiscal year 1999 
achieved that result, and I urge the adoption of the conference report.
  I am especially pleased that the conferees were willing to reconsider 
earlier legislative recommendations which I believe would have 
negatively impacted the ability to collect reliable and timely 
intelligence through our national technical means. Make no mistake 
about it, had these recommendations gone forward, the consequences 
would have been felt for years, primarily by those whose responsibility 
it is to ensure that United States military forces operate with maximum 
efficiency and minimum casualties.
  The conferees did not, however, fully resist the temptation to unduly 
encumber highly complex programs, particularly new ones, with 
directives which I believe were unwise in terms of constraining the 
flexibility of those who are supposed to manage these programs. 
Congressional oversight should be vigorous and constant, but it should 
be reasonable as well. I am concerned that we are prematurely forcing 
technical programs into a budgetary straitjacket that will force them 
to either satisfy fewer requirements, or to become operational much 
later than necessary. We must never lose sight of the fact that 
congressionally imposed restraints on the development of intelligence 
collection programs can have real effects on the Nation's security.
  The conference report contains a resolution of a matter on which the 
House and Senate intelligence committees have worked for some time, the 
means by which intelligence community employees can bring significant 
information to the attention of the intelligence committees. In perhaps 
no other aspect of the relationship between the executive and 
legislative branches is the Congress as dependent on information from 
the object of its oversight as it is in the area of intelligence.

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  We can simply not do our job if the intelligence agencies are not 
forthcoming with information, the bad as well as the good. We must know 
that impediments do not exist which would prevent intelligence 
community employees from bringing important information to the 
attention of the Intelligence committees.
  I want to commend our chairman, the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Goss) 
for crafting an alternative means by which to assist and encourage 
employees who have significant information in bringing it to Congress, 
and the leadership of the Senate Intelligence Committee for raising an 
important issue and insisting that it be addressed.
  Mr. Speaker, we should be proud of the fact that even in the 
chairman's absence we had a spirited debate on this subject, but the 
chairman prevailed, so his deft hand and good work were felt, but were 
felt properly. The job that the chairman did in crafting this 
legislation and refining it was exemplary, and I commend him for it.
  My service on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence saw the 
successful prosecution of the Persian Gulf War and the collapse of the 
Soviet Union. It also saw greater proliferation of technologies 
associated with weapons of mass destruction, protracted ethnic 
conflicts, the possibility of information warfare, and persistent 
terrorist threats.
  I have been continually impressed in my eight years on the committee 
by the need of our policymakers and military commanders for reliable 
and timely intelligence. I wish at times they had made better use of 
the intelligence available to them. To stay ahead in the collection, 
analysis, processing, and dissemination of actionable intelligence is 
admitedly costly. The authorization levels in this conference report 
exceed the President's request by less than one percent. The amount 
authorized is substantial, but I am concerned it may not be enough. We 
must insist that intelligence activities be pursued with efficiency, 
that funds provided be used wisely and well. We would make a mistake, 
in my judgment, however, if we did not invest enough in intelligence, 
and thereby risked our Nation's preeminence in this area. I hope in the 
years to come we will be able to devote more resources to this critical 
underpinning of our security.

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  Mr. Speaker, I commend the conference agreement to the House, and 
recommend its approval. I, too, want to compliment the staff of the 
committee. I think the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has 
been well served by having an outstanding staff. Mike Sheehy has been 
the director on our side, and I want to thank him and all the members 
of the Democratic staff for the outstanding work they have done, 
especially for me over the last four years as the ranking member. I 
also want to thank the majority staff; they have done an outstanding 
job.
  I think maybe our finest hour was on the question of encryption, an 
issue which still has not been resolved, but I must say that I felt 
very proud of the fact that we had a strong majority vote out of our 
committee. I think we sent a very powerful message about the importance 
of this technology, and of the challenge that law enforcement and our 
intelligence agencies have in dealing with it, and why it is so 
important for this Congress to be very, very careful how we proceed so 
we do not undermine law enforcement and national security.
  Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman again for his kind remarks.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I think Members and those watching the proceedings can 
see the caliber of people in the ranking member, as exemplified by what 
he said and the service he has provided.
  People need to know that the way our system works with oversight is 
that the most sensitive matters are shared with the ranking member, the 
chairman of this body and the other body, and I cannot imagine a more 
honorable man, a more efficient, capable professional than the 
gentleman from Washington (Mr. Dicks). I mean what I say. We are sorely 
going to miss him up there. I am sure the gentleman's shoes will be 
properly filled, but it is going to be a tough deal.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to my colleague, the distinguished 
gentleman from Florida (Mr. McCollum), who is chairman of our 
Subcommittee on Human Intelligence, Analysis, and Counterintelligence.
  (Mr. McCOLLUM asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. McCOLLUM. I thank the gentleman for yielding time to me, Mr. 
Speaker. I wish to express my appreciation for this bill, for the 
conference report, for all the work that has been done, and for 
everybody who has put a lot of time in on it. It authorizes funding for 
the intelligence and intelligence-related activities for this coming 
year.
  As the chairman of the Subcommittee on Human Intelligence, Analysis, 
and Counterintelligence, I am pleased to say the report continues the 
efforts of the gentleman from Florida (Chairman Goss) and of my 
subcommittee to put more eyes and ears on the streets around the world 
to detect, penetrate, and disrupt the movement of drugs to our cities, 
the planning of terrorists against our citizens, the shipment of 
nuclear components to rogue states, and the actions of Nations against 
our interests abroad.
  What this country faced during the Cold War was fundamentally a 
single military threat from the combined forces of the Warsaw Pact. 
Today, standing on the rubble of the Berlin Wall, we face new 
transnational threats that in many cases arise in smaller, poorer, and 
more often obscure capitals and cities in Latin America, the Near East, 
and Africa.
  Drug cartels reach out from the coca fields of southern Colombia and 
the poppy fields of Burma to poison our cities. Terrorist networks run 
from rural Afghanistan to Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, the Balkans, and even 
New York to kill our citizens and threaten our peace.
  Decisions taken in Tehran, Baku, T'Blisi, and Ashgabat may affect the 
exploitation of the vast oil fields of the Caspian Sea, and through 
that, the world's economy.
  It is not enough to know how badly our cities are being poisoned by 
cocaine and heroin from Latin America and East Asia. It is not enough 
to know how large a crater was left behind by terrorists in Africa. It 
is not enough to document how adversely our interests might be affected 
by the route of a pipeline through central Eurasia.
  Rather, we must know the plans and intentions of those behind the 
transnational threats and the concerns that touch our country, its 
citizens, and its interests. We must know all of this before it is too 
late for us to act. We need to know the who, the where, and the how of 
drug shipments coming to Miami, New York and San Diego; of a truck bomb 
to be left in the front of an embassy in Africa; of a plan for hostile 
control of oil from the Caspian sea.
  For that we must have the eyes and ears of our case officers, and 
technology, on the streets where these threats originate. No amount of 
logic or divination by our analysts back here in Washington can pick up 
the launch of a drug boat in the Caribbean or the Eastern Pacific, or 
the fusing of a bomb intended for a U.S. embassy. That must be done by 
the brave men and women of the intelligence community, on the front 
lines of this national endeavor. That Mr. Speaker is where they must be 
if the U.S. is to move away from being reactive to the transnational 
threats to becoming proactive in our efforts to frustrate and hinder as 
best we can future catastrophes.
  With that, I would like to speak to one particular portion of the 
bill which has given pause to some of our Members this morning. That 
concerns a very minor change but a very significant change in the law 
dealing with wiretaps.
  As the terrorist threat has grown, it has become apparent that we 
have had a problem, as people decide to evade a wiretap that is ordered 
by a court, and they decide to go to other phones than the stationary 
phone in the single court order that is presented, where you have just 
a single phone you are allowed to tap.
  We have had a lot of debate about this issue. In this bill there is a 
provision that I think is very refined that goes to the issue. We have 
a provision in this bill that simply changes the law to say that a 
court, when it goes about considering whether to order a wiretap that 
allows, as it can now do, somebody to be followed and every phone they 
use to be tapped, rather than simply a stationary phone in the order, 
and the current law allows that, but instead of requiring the court to 
find an intent, a specific criminal intent to evade the tap, that 
instead we may reach the conclusion, the judge may reach the conclusion 
that the person is evading the tap by the circumstances that are 
presented, because the intent is very hard to prove a lot of times.
  There is no expansion of more phones that can be tapped. In fact, 
there is a narrowing of that. In fact, in our provision we narrow it so 
now, if this becomes law, once somebody leaves an area where a phone 
is, let's say he is on a street corner and walks away from a phone 
booth and somebody is following him along, figuring out what he is 
doing, that phone cannot be tapped anymore. We cannot tap a phone to 
listen in on anybody's conversation except the person who is indeed the 
person being suspected of whatever it is that we are tapping their 
phone on.
  This is a very minor change. No Member should mistake this as some 
major addition to the wiretap laws. It is not. I would encourage 
everybody to vote for this bill. It is a very important bill.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. DICKS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 7 minutes to the distinguished 
gentleman from California (Mr. Dixon).
  Mr. DIXON. Mr. Speaker, I thank the ranking member for yielding time 
to me.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the conference report, H.R. 
3694, the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999. I also 
want to recognize the hard and long hours of leadership that the 
gentleman from Florida (Chairman Goss) has dedicated to producing a 
bipartisan bill that provides the necessary resources to our Nation's 
intelligence community.
  The gentleman from Florida (Mr. Goss) was joined in his efforts by 
the ranking Democratic member, the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Norm 
Dicks), who is serving his final year on the Permanent Select Committee 
on Intelligence. The committee will certainly miss the gentleman from 
Washington (Mr. Dicks), his insights, and continued input that he has 
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the areas of reconnaissance and other advanced technology problems we 
have addressed.
  I suspect that it will be difficult if not impossible to replace him 
on the committee. I will miss his presence in the committee's hearing 
room but I look forward to his continuing leadership on the 
Subcommittee on National Security of the Committee on Appropriations.
  Mr. Speaker, the conference report authorizes appropriate levels of 
funding to support our country's cadre of human intelligence case 
officers. These individuals toil in anonymity and often times perform 
the most sensitive and dangerous operations in furtherance of our 
national security. The duties and responsibilities of human 
intelligence case officers are multiple, and the training needed to 
produce an effective case officer is rigorous and intense.
  The measure we are presently considering provides badly needed 
resources to the Directorate of Operations of the Central Intelligence 
Agency. It is within this directorate that CIA's case officers reside. 
Additionally, resources are also provided for the Defense Human 
Intelligence Service, which houses the Department of Defense's case 
officers.
  The resources authorized by this conference report provide for 
additional training to ensure that case officers possess the necessary 
skills to meet future intelligence challenges, such as terrorism, 
proliferation, and narcotics trafficking.
  Human intelligence is the one form of information that provides 
policymakers a look at the plans and intentions of other countries, 
foreign organizations, and terrorist groups. This bill also provides 
for the necessary tools that case officers need to carry out operations 
while providing for their personal security and that of their assets. 
Technology and its uses can only take us so far, but it is the human 
intelligence that often provides the critical degree of corroboration.
  To ensure that these resources are put to the best possible uses, I 
will continue to monitor these programs during the next Congress in an 
effort to be certain that the initiatives designed to enhance our human 
intelligence capabilities are implemented.
  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to report that this conference report 
authorizes resources for continuing undergraduate training programs at 
CIA, NSA, and DIA. This program will be one of the many legacies of the 
gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Louis Stokes), who is retiring after 30 years 
of service to this Nation.
  When the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Stokes) served as chairman of the 
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, he was struck by the lack 
of minorities in the intelligence community. Even today the fact is 
that the intelligence community lags behind the Federal labor sector in 
its representation of minorities and women.
  The undergraduate training program identifies and recruits qualified 
minorities out of high school who have demonstrated abilities in 
disciplines essential to the effective performance of intelligence 
missions. These students are provided a scholarship to colleges or 
universities of their choosing, and in return agree to work for the 
sponsoring agency for a specified length of time.
  Last summer I attended the graduation ceremonies of students in NSA's 
program. I was impressed by the quality and the caliber of the 
students, and left with confidence that the future of our intelligence 
community is in good hands. This report represents a continuing 
commitment to the undergraduate training program and to the ideals of 
equality of opportunity. I will continue to review the administration 
of these important programs in succeeding years to ensure that they are 
meeting their goals of providing equal employment opportunities to 
women and minorities.
  Mr. Speaker, the threat to our Nation posed by international 
terrorism was made abundantly clear with the bombing of the embassies 
in Kenya and Tanzania. The threat to our national security posed by 
nuclear proliferation was underscored when India and Pakistan detonated 
nuclear devices.
  Finally, the devastation inflicted on our fellow Americans by 
international narcotics traffickers is visible in every city, village, 
and township. This conference report authorizes resources to enable the 
intelligence community to mount operations against these transitional 
threats. It will not be an easy chore to combat these threats, but this 
conference report arms the men and women of the intelligence community 
with the weapons they need to meet these challenges.

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  Finally, Mr. Speaker, I must pay tribute to the gentleman from 
Colorado (Mr. Skaggs) and the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Harman) 
who are both leaving the committee. They have certainly served the 
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence well.
  I too would like to thank the staff on a bipartisan way for their 
total cooperation, but would like to single out one member who is 
leaving us and that is Mr. Humphrey, Democratic senior counsel, who is 
moving on to another Federal Agency. I have had an opportunity to work 
with him on an issue very, very closely. I appreciate his abilities and 
admire him for moving out at the appropriate time and look forward to 
our continued friendship.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the distinguished 
gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young) my colleague and friend, the 
subcommittee Cardinal of extraordinary importance to the intelligence 
effort.
  Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Florida 
for yielding me the time.
  I want to say first that it has been a real honor to serve as a 
Member of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, this term for 
8 years and in the previous term for 6 years, and to be entrusted with 
some of the most critical secrets relative to our own national security 
during that period of time.
  I am real honored to work with people like the gentleman from Florida 
(Chairman Goss), my distinguished colleague who before coming to 
Congress even had his own outstanding record as a member of our 
intelligence community, and the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Dicks), 
our ranking member.
  The gentleman from Washington and I have had a chance to work 
together for a long time as members of the Subcommittee on National 
Security of the Committee on Appropriations, which I have the privilege 
to chair.
  Mr. Speaker, I want to say that these two Members, and the other 
members of our committee, have dedicated their lives to the security of 
the United States of America without any sign of partisanship, without 
any discussion or controversy, other than sometimes good honest 
opinions on what might be right or what might be wrong.
  As has been pointed out, the staff has been unusual in their 
dedication to the members of the committee, and to the mission of the 
committee.
  This is a good bill. I wanted to start off by saying that this bill 
meets the requirements of our intelligence community, but actually it 
does not. There are a lot more things that we need to be doing that we 
have not been able to do in this bill because of the financial 
limitations.
  But it does a good job and it is important that the United States of 
America, as the leading Nation in the world, the leading military 
Nation in the world, that our Nation have the ability to hear or see 
what potential threat there might be to us, to our people, and to our 
national interest. And that is what intelligence is all about.
  Whether we are dealing with a military situation such as we dealt 
with in Iraq with Saddam Hussein, or in Bosnia, or potentially in 
Kosovo, wherever it might be, Korea is one of the most realistic 
examples of where good intelligence is necessary, because military 
operations could happen overnight. And especially in places like the 
Mideast. We have to be aware of what a potential threat there is out 
there.
  After the Iron Curtain melted and the Berlin Wall came down, many of 
us felt that we could breathe a sigh of relief. No more threats to our 
interests, no more threats to our own security. And all of the sudden 
up from the sands of the deserts of Iraq came Saddam Hussein.
  We do not know who might be next to raise the ugly threat of a threat 
against the United States militarily or one of the growing threats is 
terrorism. The terrorists operate in the dark of the night with 
stealth, sneaky tactics. We have to not only be aware of the military, 
but also aware of the potential threat from terrorism.

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  Also another major subject is drug interdiction; to detect who the 
drug movers are that are bringing the devastating drugs into our 
country that are so devastating. This bill goes a long way towards 
meeting those requirements.
  But I must say there is more that needs to be done, Mr. Speaker. And 
with the leadership of the gentleman from Florida (Chairman Goss) and 
the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Dicks) and the members of the 
committee, I am satisfied that we will meet those obligations.
  I am also proud to say that the Subcommittee on Appropriations that I 
have the privilege to chair works extremely closely with the Members 
and the staff of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, 
because we have the funding responsibility. We are obligated to find 
the money that this legislation authorizes. We have had a tremendous 
working relationship. We are all working together for what is in the 
best interest of the United States of America.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the conference report to accompany 
House bill, H.R. 3694, that authorizes funds for intelligence and 
intelligence-related activities for Fiscal Year 1999. This conference 
report, Mr. Speaker, reflects a constant theme: That, in order to 
protect our nation, we must provide for an Intelligence Community that 
can be strategic, as well as a tactical; flexible, as well as resolute; 
and worldwide, as well as specialized.
  What do I mean?
  Strategic as well as Tactical: Our conference report has paid close 
attention to the needs of the Department of Defense for tactical 
intelligence as reflected in the request for the Tactical Intelligence 
and Related Activities program, or TIARA, and for the Joint Military 
Intelligence Program, or JMIP. For both these programs, we have 
invested in needed improvements and capabilities aimed at providing our 
armed forces with the information that they need to operate effectively 
in the myriad of situations that they are now asked to address. This 
includes peacekeeping assignments, as well as direct military 
confrontation. And whether that action might be with Iraq or in Kosovo, 
we must work to make sure that the men and women that we are putting in 
harm's way have the tactical edge. That edge is comprised of raw 
information and analysis * * * in other words: Intelligence.
  But tactical intelligence alone will not win the day. Prior to 
deployment of our military forces, regardless of the mission, various 
types of strategic intelligence collection and analysis are required in 
order to ensure success. This strategic intelligence ranges from human 
intelligence that protects our forces by warning of upcoming plans and 
intentions of those who look for opportunities to hurt, sometimes 
fatally, our troops, to indications and warnings of key, significant 
activities that give us technical insight into the types of weaponry 
and forces that our military will confront in the years to come.
  Put simply, the military must have both strategic and tactical 
intelligence to be successful in defending our interests and way of 
life in this ear of worldwide turmoil. Mr. Speaker, in my capacity as 
Chairman of the National Security Subcommittee for Appropriations, I 
have the luxury to look across the broad spectrum of our nation's 
defense. I can say, without reservation, that intelligence is the first 
line of defense. Without it, without the investments being made through 
this conference report, we do nothing less than risk our national 
security. It is that simple. Let me provide a few examples.
  Flexible as well as resolute: This legislation recognizes that 
changes in technology will require changes that we cannot currently 
anticipate. These technological advances will determine how we will 
collect intelligence against the new translational threats and 
challenges that now confront us. Drug cartels and terrorist networks 
operate through fiber, on the net, and across continents. Our ``eyes 
and ears'' must keep up with these complexities if they are to give us 
warning on a shipment of heroin or a truckload of C4. For these 
reasons, the Conference Report provides the means for the investments 
in research and development that should enable our collectors to keep 
up with our adversaries.
  Finally, worldwide as well as specialized: For the Intelligence 
Community, the Cold War was trench warfare. The enemy's command post--
the Kremlin--was fixed and its deployments were static. In contrast, 
the war against narcotics traffickers, terrorists, and proliferators of 
weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and biological weapons, 
is guerrilla warfare. The command post of our current adversary could 
be in southern Columbia, rural Afghanistan, or in a ship headed south 
down the Bosphorus. They could be in Baghdad, in the Balkans, or in 
Port-au-Prince. To detect and counter these new adversaries, we must 
have the ``eyes and ears'' of our Intelligence Community in the fields, 
on the streets, in the air, and over the waters where they operate. For 
these reasons, our Conference Report provides the Community with the 
means to deploy more officers, and more technology, where they must be 
to meet these challenges: In the field.

  Our conference report, Mr. Speaker, begins to provide the investment 
that the Intelligence Community needs during fiscal year 1999: to 
develop its capability to collect tactical, as well as strategic 
intelligence, to meet and to exploit changes in technology, and to put 
its ``eyes and ears'' where they are needed.
  I am particularly proud of this report--and of the Committee that 
produced it--because it will be my last as a Member of the House 
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, or HPSCI. Over my 14 years 
on this Committee, I have been proud to have represented not only the 
people of this country, but also, in a very special way the Members of 
this House, in the oversight of the unique, exciting, and sometimes 
strange mix of espionage, technology, and plain old bureaucracy that is 
our Intelligence Community. What I would like to end with today is a 
reassurannce to my colleagues here, and our constituents everywhere, 
that the Members of this Committee have worked hard to begin to rebuild 
an Intelligence Community that will have the capability to collect 
against whatever enemies and adversaries we will face tomorrow, and in 
the next century.
  Like most Americans, I doubted I would ever see a world in which 
Moscow would not be the focus of our concern and our collection 
efforts. Though, to be sure, it cannot be altogether ignored. Like most 
today, I cannot imagine a world now without drug traffickers and 
terrorists as our major adversaries and targets of collection.
  But times change, and threats grow and recede. What we in HPSCI have 
worked so hard to do is to have an Intelligence Community with the 
capability to confront and to collect against any adversary that will 
threaten our country, its interest and most importantly, its citizens.
  For that, and for their steadfastness to this cause, I thank those on 
the Committee staff, and my colleagues on HPSCI. In particular, I thank 
Chairman Goss and Norm Dicks, the Ranking Democratic Member, for their 
vision, as well as for their hard work in achieving these critical 
goals. I would also extend a special thank you and congratulations to 
Norm Dicks, who is rotating off the Committee with me, and to Ms. 
Harman and Mr. Skaggs, both of whom are retiring from Congress. It has 
been my pleasure to serve with all of you, and I believe that you leave 
the Committee having served our nation's defense needs very well.
  Mr. DICKS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 5\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from 
Georgia (Mr. Bishop), my colleague and a distinguished member of the 
committee.
  Mr. BISHOP. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding me this 
time.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of the conference agreement on 
H.R. 3694, the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999.
  First, let me take this opportunity to congratulate the gentleman 
from Florida (Chairman Goss) for his efforts in producing a bipartisan 
bill that addresses the needs of the United States intelligence 
community.
  Additionally, praise must also be extended to the ranking Democratic 
member, the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Dicks) for his work in 
helping to craft this important piece of legislation and for his 
service to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. There is 
perhaps no Member in this great institution who has dedicated more time 
and energy to understanding the technology supporting our intelligence 
community than the gentleman from Washington.
  Due to the service limitations placed on members of the Permanent 
Select Committee on Intelligence, he will be leaving the committee in 
the next Congress. I will personally miss his leadership on technical 
and tactical issues that confront the committee, and the committee as a 
whole will miss his innovative ideas and his commitment to maintaining 
the best intelligence community in the world.
  Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Skaggs) and the 
gentlewoman from California (Ms. Harman) will also be leaving the 
committee, and I want to take this opportunity to wish them well and to 
say that these two defenders of democracy, freedom and justice will 
also be sorely missed. Mr. Speaker, I say, ``Thank you, Mr. Skaggs and 
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the men and the women of the national security and intelligence 
communities.''
  Also leaving the committee is Mr. Calvin Humphrey, as was mentioned 
by the gentleman from California (Mr. Dixon), who was the first 
minority, African-American, in our nation's history to hold a 
professional staff position with the intelligence committee. He has 
provided professional support to the committee for the last 11 years. 
He served under six chairmen and has served in almost every official 
senior staff position with the committee.
  Mr. Speaker, he has certainly enhanced our national security, and the 
efficiency of our country's intelligence community has been enhanced by 
his service. We will certainly miss him very much.
  We congratulate him, however, as he assumes a senior level position 
with a Federal agency. I'm confident he will be successful and continue 
to contribute to the setterment of our nation.
  Mr. Speaker, the conference report before us today authorizes 
resources to ensure that our intelligence capabilities are sufficient 
to meet the contingencies of the next millennium. With each passing 
day, our intelligence community is called upon to respond to more and 
more contingencies within a restrained budget.
  We all recall with horror the cowardly and ruthless attacks on our 
embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. A number of 
representatives of the intelligence community were on the ground in 
both countries in a short period of time collecting and analyzing 
information. The efforts of the intelligence community to date have 
been indispensable to the leads that have been developed and the 
arrests that have been made in these bombings.
  Additionally, it has been widely reported in a number of our Nation's 
periodicals that planned attacks on other embassies have been 
interrupted and avoided as a result of the dedication and hard work of 
intelligence community personnel.
  This conference report provides resources for our intelligence 
community's counterterrorism efforts. Additionally, funding is provided 
to collect, process, analyze, and disseminate critical intelligence 
that helps shield our sons and daughters serving in our Nation's armed 
forces against the deadly force of terrorism.
  In short, let me say that I am confident that this conference report 
will assist in maintaining the intelligence capabilities necessary to 
provide policymakers with the information they need to make key 
decisions affecting our national security.
  Mr. Speaker, just last week I met with individuals concerned with the 
fate of Americans still unaccounted for as a result of wars that our 
Nation has been involved in. Last January, I traveled to Southeast Asia 
to review our intelligence activities and operations in that region of 
the world. Specifically, I focused my attention on efforts aimed at 
achieving a full accounting of Americans still unaccounted for as a 
result of the Vietnam war.
  Again, I want to ensure our Nation's veterans and the families of 
those soldiers, airmen, sailors and marines still unaccounted for that 
this conference report contains the necessary resources to permit the 
intelligence community to continue its efforts to determine the fate of 
those who have yet to come home.
  Mr. Speaker, this conference report provides critical support to all 
facets of our intelligence community. Resources are authorized to 
sustain the intelligence community's efforts to assist in providing 
force protection intelligence to our troops and to assist in the 
collection and analysis of critical intelligence bearing on such 
challenging issues as counterterrorism, counternarcotics, and 
counterproliferation.
  I am proud to support this conference agreement and I urge my 
colleagues to support it as well.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the distinguished 
gentleman from Delaware (Mr. Castle) my friend, former Governor of 
Delaware, and a member of the committee.
  Mr. CASTLE. Mr. Speaker, I also join in support of the conference 
report for H.R. 3694, the intelligence authorization bill, and give due 
credit to the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Dicks) and to the 
gentleman from Florida (Mr. Goss) who worked so very hard on this to do 
such a wonderful job.
  United States policymakers must have the most comprehensive, 
responsive and timely strategic perspective on major global changes. To 
help provide this perspective, we rely on our intelligence agencies to 
collect, sort, and analyze information from all over the world.
  When this bill was originally before the House in May, I expressed 
concerns about the capability of the intelligence community to tackle 
specialized financial issues like economic analysis and tracking 
illicit money laundering. As global financial markets grow and 
intertwine, timely economic intelligence in tracking the flow of 
laundered money becomes increasingly important to the United States 
national security.
  Support for economic intelligence was downgraded earlier this decade, 
but the need for stronger support in this area was driven home by the 
degree to which the Asian financial crisis caught our government flat-
footed. If we are to rely on the United States intelligence community 
to provide this kind of support, it is essential that we provide them 
with the resources necessary to do the job.
  Also essential to our efforts to fight increasingly sophisticated 
international organized crime operations and narcotics traffickers is 
our ability to track the flow of money. With the right tools and 
support, the intelligence community can provide key insights into these 
areas to support our law enforcement agencies. And I would add that an 
ability to follow the money is vital to our efforts to unravel the 
complex web of Usama Bin Ladin's international terrorist connections.
  The members and staff of the Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence have followed these issues closely this year, and I am 
satisfied that this conference report makes some headway in addressing 
these critical needs.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this conference report.
  Mr. DICKS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the distinguished 
gentlewoman from California (Ms. Harman), who is also leaving the 
committee. She has been one of the most outstanding Members I think of 
the House, both on the Committee on National Security and the Permanent 
Select Committee on Intelligence, and she will be sorely missed in the 
next Congress. She has done an outstanding job on the Permanent Select 
Committee on Intelligence, she is a quick learner, and I am going to 
miss her service.
  Ms. HARMAN. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Washington (Mr. 
Dicks) for yielding me this time, and for 26 years of friendship so 
far. I thank our other colleagues for their very kind remarks about me 
and my service on the committee.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the conference report to accompany 
H.R. 3694, the bill authorizing intelligence spending for fiscal year 
1999. As we have heard, this is my last intelligence authorization. 
Before commenting on the bill, I would like to commend the gentleman 
from Florida (Chairman Goss) for generating an unusually collaborative 
and bipartisan environment in which talented colleagues and a superb 
staff can work productively. It was a special goal of mine to serve on 
this committee and I have loved it.
  As I have often said, intelligence spending is intelligent spending, 
perhaps now more than ever. The U.S. no longer confronts a single, 
well-known adversary, but a fluid international environment where 
weapons of mass destruction can be had on the international market for 
a price; where crime syndicates organize across national borders; where 
terrorists, as we sadly experienced this summer, can strike with deadly 
force.
  Mr. Speaker, it is crucial that we be able to anticipate and meet 
these new challenges.

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  Despite our efforts to strengthen the nonproliferation regime, the 
demand for weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery has 
not waned, and neither has the supply.
  This past year, after information indicated an increase in the in-
flow of missile technology and know-how to Iran, Congress directed the 
administration to impose sanctions on entities involved in these 
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accelerate its missile programs and impede its capability to field 
missiles that can strike Israel, our NATO ally Turkey, and targets in 
Central Europe; missiles which could be armed with chemical, biological 
and nuclear warheads.
  We have also seen alarming developments elsewhere in Asia. Recently, 
North Korea tested its first Taepo Dong 1 missile. We anticipated the 
launch, monitored it, and now know more about this missile's 
performance than the North Koreans. This new missile does not yet allow 
North Korea to deliver a weapon to the United States, or reach 
significant military targets it could not strike already, but it puts 
it on that path. The launch also advertised North Korea's capabilities 
to would-be buyers, a very disturbing development.
  Mr. Speaker, these are just two examples of proliferation in already 
unstable regions of the world. Intelligence resources will be crucial 
not only in monitoring these developing weapon capabilities but also in 
shaping policies to stem attempts to proliferate this technology.
  Intelligence is also increasingly essential for success on the future 
battlefield. As a member of both the Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence and the Committee on National Security, I have witnessed 
the incredible advantages that information technology provides to our 
military forces. I have strongly supported improvements to our eyes and 
ears in the sky so that commanders will have a complete understanding 
of the battlefield, and the enemy's locations and intentions. Combined 
with advances in precision weapon systems, we have vastly improved the 
capabilities of our Nation's armed forces.
  I am aware that some of our colleagues would prefer to reduce the 
priority of satellite reconnaissance and its support to military 
operations. My view, however, is that there is no more important 
mission for our intelligence community than supporting our combatant 
commanders. Our intelligence capabilities are the crux of our defense 
modernization efforts, and we cannot shortchange intelligence without 
significantly weakening our military.
  Mr. Speaker, accurate and timely intelligence makes our Nation safer 
and armed forces more effective. It is an investment we must protect 
and nurture.
  I urge my colleagues to join me in supporting this bill and, on a 
personal note, Mr. Speaker, to join me in sending bipartisan and 
heartfelt get well wishes to Mariel Goss, a very important asset to our 
committee.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume to 
thank the gentlewoman for those very kind remarks, and for the other 
remarks she has made. And I know that the gentlewoman will do well in 
her next endeavor, and I certainly suspect that we will be talking in 
the future.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New York (Mr. 
Boehlert), a distinguished member of our committee who makes a very 
valuable contribution and we are pleased to have him.
  (Mr. BOEHLERT asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. BOEHLERT. Mr. Speaker, it is important that our colleagues and 
the American people understand that intelligence, as distasteful as it 
sometimes may seem, is critical to the very survival of our Nation and 
our way of life. This conference report focuses on those programs that 
provide the best possibility of success for our Nation's first line of 
defense: its intelligence community.
  Specifically, this report puts a great deal of emphasis on the 
future. We made some very difficult choices to cut funding for some 
legacy programs so that we could add funding for critical technologies 
and research and development necessary to ensure future capabilities. 
The ability of our laboratories and scientists to develop new 
techniques and ``leap-ahead'' technologies is critical for our 
intelligence community to stay ahead of the threats that our country 
faces.
  This report is about the wise and prudent funding and oversight of 
those intelligence collection, analysis and dissemination functions 
necessary to ensure the security of our Nation, its interests and its 
citizens around the world, now and into the future. So I urge my 
colleagues to stand with our chairman and ranking member and support 
the report.
  Finally, Mr. Speaker, I would like to add to the remarks of my 
colleagues and say farewell to the two distinguished gentlemen, the 
gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young) and the gentleman from Washington 
(Mr. Dicks), both of whom are leaving this committee this year. They 
have been great mentors for me, with respect to many intelligence 
issues, and they remain great friends.
  Also, to the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Skaggs) and the gentlewoman 
from California (Ms. Harman), who are leaving not only the committee 
but the Congress, I join with the other Members in wishing them well in 
all of their future endeavors and thanking them most sincerely for 
their very distinguished service not only in this committee but in the 
Congress of the United States.
  Mr. DICKS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from 
Colorado (Mr. Skaggs), another one of our most distinguished 
colleagues. He has been one of the hardest working members on the 
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He has made an enormous 
contribution in this House.
  I have had the privilege of serving with him on the Committee on 
Appropriations. I think of him as kind of the conscience of the House 
of Representatives, and I am going to very much miss him next year, and 
I want to wish him the very best in his future endeavors. I know he 
will be a success wherever he goes.
  Mr. SKAGGS. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank very much the gentleman from 
Washington. I am grateful for those kind remarks, and let me return 
them to him. His leadership on this committee has been extraordinary, 
and the Nation is in his debt for the kind of care and attention that 
he has paid to these many, many profoundly important issues.
  I also extend my great thanks and admiration and respect to the 
gentleman from Florida (Mr. Goss), who really has conducted this 
committee in an exemplary fashion.
  Mr. Speaker, I arrived at the Capitol this morning for what may be my 
third or fourth next to the last day of voting in this great body. It 
is a cherished and awesome responsibility that we all enjoy as Members 
of this House. But this committee, I think, has a special 
responsibility that goes beyond that which we all share here.
  Yes, we have a vital role in developing every year the spending 
authorization bill for the next fiscal year. That is what is before the 
House at the moment, and I urge the adoption of the 1999 bill.
  But this committee has an especially critical role as proxy for our 
many colleagues, in fulfilling our responsibility under that always 
pertinent maxim from the days of the founding of the Republic, that, 
``The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.''
  On this committee that means not only vigilance with regard to the 
threats posed by our enemies and adversaries abroad, and the effort to 
fashion the capabilities of the intelligence community to meet those 
threats, but also vigilance internally as well; vigilance against the 
seductiveness of the intelligence business, the seductiveness of power, 
the seductiveness of classified information, and the allure that the 
chief executive can always bring through his principal assists to the 
table upstairs where we debate these terribly difficult and important 
issues.
  We act in behalf of our colleagues in making sure that the executive 
branch of government follows the law. And that is just as important a 
responsibility as the one that we bear with regard to any external 
threats that this country faces.
  In that respect, I hope my colleagues understand how wonderful the 
bipartisanship on this committee is in its service to the country in 
this critical area.
  It has been a real privilege to get to spend 5\1/2\ years working 
with colleagues on my side and the other side of the aisle in behalf of 
national security and that eternal vigilance. It has been an enormous 
privilege to see the kind of dedicated staff work that goes in to 
support the efforts of this committee, again motivated by an absolutely 
remarkable level of patriotism and commitment to duty. I want our 
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have some appreciation of that, because the vast bulk of the work that 
we do is done in secret and, therefore, cannot be discussed in any 
detail.
  And on that point it is appropriate that on this occasion we 
recognize as well the dedicated work of the thousands of intelligence 
officers and workers in the intelligence business of this country, here 
at home and around the world, who work extraordinarily long hours, in 
very difficult circumstances, for modest compensation, because they 
believe in the United States of America. Most of what they do we cannot 
recognize publicly, but we can offer them, as I do, our thanks.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume to 
say that I think we now understand what a loss the gentleman from 
Colorado (Mr. Skaggs) is also going to be from the committee, after 
those thoughtful remarks, which are consistent with all the thoughtful 
work he has done for our committee all these years, and we appreciate 
that.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New Hampshire 
(Mr. Bass), who is the man who time and again seems to bail us out on 
the budget matters that keep confronting us.
  Mr. BASS. Mr. Speaker, I also rise in support of the conference 
report and to pay tribute to our distinguished chairman who, under some 
recently difficult circumstances, has certainly led this committee with 
great expertise and integrity.
  I also want to pay tribute to our two ranking members who will not be 
coming back with us next year, the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Bill 
Young) and the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Norm Dicks). I cannot 
think of two individuals who are more committed to a strong and capable 
defense and an efficient and effective intelligence capability.
  I came to the committee and I watched the gentleman from Washington 
defend an issue that was particularly near and dear to him, and this 
individual just would not take no for an answer. And I asked one of our 
ever respectful staff people, what is the story with this guy? And they 
said, ``Norm Dicks never has a bad day.''
  Over the last 2 years, and after 38 or so hearings, and 30 formal 
hearings, visits to Bosnia, to North Korea, to China, reports from 
Central America and from Africa and other places all over the world, I 
found, much to my surprise, that we live in a world that is far more 
dangerous than I ever thought it was. Those dangers are more diffuse 
and more difficult to identify and to contain. Indeed, I feel, as a 
member of this committee now, like a Dutch boy at the dike as we seek 
to protect Americans against threats both here and abroad.
  This bill moves us forward in the direction of protecting our 
strategic national defense and economic interests around the world. We 
may never succeed, but the fact that we have a committee and a Congress 
that is dedicated to addressing these issues and doing it in such a 
fashion so that our scarce resources are expended in the most efficient 
and productive fashion, is very commendable to this Congress.
  So I rise in support of this conference committee report and urge its 
passage.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, may I ask how much time each side has?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Sessions). The gentleman from Florida 
(Mr. Goss) has 9\1/2\ minutes remaining, and the gentleman from 
Washington (Mr. Dicks) has 4\1/2\ minutes remaining.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from 
Nevada (Mr. Gibbons), who is a decorated Air Force officer from Nevada 
who we are proud to have on our committee.
  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, I thank the distinguished gentleman for 
yielding me this time, and I rise today in strong support of the 
conference report to accompany H.R. 3694, the intelligence 
authorization bill for fiscal year 1999.
  Mr. Speaker, I have the high honor and distinct pleasure of being 
able to serve on both the House Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence and the House Committee on National Security. This allows 
me the opportunity to look across the operational military and defense 
issues, as well as the intelligence functions that not only support 
but, in fact, participate in the various defense operations.
  I can tell my colleagues, Mr. Speaker, that this is a very prudent 
report. It is a conference report that not only sustains currently 
required capabilities, this is a report that provides our military 
forces with the informational resources necessary to build warfighter 
confidence and perhaps even keep them out of harm's way. It also seeks 
to provide them with the indications and warning intelligence that 
allow them the advantage in a conflict.
  Let there be no mistake, Mr. Speaker, this is not a more secure world 
since the end of the Cold War. While it is true that we do not face the 
imminent threat of nuclear annihilation from behind the Iron Curtain, 
the events of the past few months regarding ballistic missiles and 
nuclear weapons development and testing by nations seeking to have 
arsenals that include weapons of mass destruction, strongly suggest 
that we may well face that imminent threat once again on a broader 
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  Add to that threats posed by international terrorism, transnational 
threats such as narcotics trafficking, organized international crime, 
the rampant proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and use of 
chemical and biological weapons by rogue nations. Activities we have 
witnessed recently tell us that these threats are more pressing and 
considerably more dangerous than they have ever been. The problems 
associated with collecting and understanding information about today's 
risks are in many ways more difficult because formal government 
boundaries are not limiting the threats to our peace and security.
  This conference report begins to provide our intelligence community 
and military forces the infrastructure necessary to give the U.S. that 
information dominance to increase our security.
  That is the bottom line, the security of the United States. The 
Constitution of the United States places a responsibility on each of us 
to act in the best interest of the U.S. and our fellow citizens. We 
have done that here in this conference report.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the distinguished 
gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Portman) who has made a valuable contribution 
to the particular conference report before us.
  Mr. DICKS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from Ohio 
(Mr. Portman).
  Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Florida for 
yielding me the time and for his strong personal support from the 
outset for the worthy effort to designate the CIA compound in Langley, 
Virginia ``The George Bush Center for Intelligence.''
  Earlier this year with the help of the gentleman from Florida (Mr. 
Goss), with the help of the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Skelton), the 
gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Hamilton), the gentleman from California 
(Mr. Dreier), the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Dicks) and others we 
were able to get such legislation passed.
  I want to thank the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Goss) and the 
gentleman from Washington (Mr. Dicks) as well as Senators Dick Shelby, 
Bob Kerrey and others in the conference committee for including the 
Bush legislation in this very important authorization bill today.
  It is a very fitting tribute to George Bush, the only President to 
have served as CIA Director. His tenure from 1976 to 1977 was a 
difficult time when the agency was under fire from investigative 
committees up here on the Hill, from the press and from the public. The 
CIA was demoralized and in need of new leadership and direction. George 
Bush turned the tide. He was key to developing an executive order to 
prevent future violations of the agency's mandate and, most important, 
he provided the steady hand of leadership at a turbulent time and in 
doing so improved the mission and morale of the CIA.
  When he resigned his post, Senator Daniel Inouye said, ``Bush was one 
of the best CIA directors we had. The morale of the intelligence 
community has been inspired by Bush's leadership.''
  Mr. Speaker, as a decorated Navy pilot in World War II, a 
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Congressman, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Liaison to China, 
CIA Director, Vice President and President, he has ably served our 
Nation for over 50 years and inspired many of us. He exemplifies the 
highest values and principles of public service.
  Mr. DICKS. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. PORTMAN. I yield to the gentleman from Washington.
  Mr. DICKS. Mr. Speaker, I just want to commend the gentleman for 
outstanding leadership on this issue. I am very pleased to have been a 
cosponsor of his legislation. I think this is one of the best things 
this Congress has done. I want to commend the gentleman for the great 
leadership that he has demonstrated. George Bush was a great American 
and I think this was an outstanding idea. I want to congratulate him on 
his leadership.
  Mr. PORTMAN. I thank the gentleman for his support, too, and for his 
yielding time.
  Mr. Speaker, again I want to thank the Members in this body for 
helping make this possible, because George Bush does represent the 
highest values and principles in public service, integrity, honesty, 
and has set an example really for all of us. This is the appropriate 
recognition of his remarkable and inspirational service to our Nation.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the distinguished 
gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Barr).
  Mr. BARR of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Florida, 
the distinguished chairman of the committee, for yielding me this time 
for me to do something that I do not like to do and, that is, to rise 
in opposition to this bill.
  Comments were made earlier that there was a minor change to the 
electronic surveillance or wiretapping legislation. The change that is 
contained in this bill is neither minor nor inconsequential. It 
represents a fundamental shift in wiretapping procedures in this 
country.
  Back in 1996, Mr. Speaker, we debated extensively provisions almost 
identical to these that are found in section 604 of this conference 
report. After extensive debate, this House defeated the expanded powers 
that were sought by the executive branch.
  Essentially, Mr. Speaker, this changes Federal wiretapping laws in a 
way that allows the government to seek a court order in any case, not 
limited to foreign intelligence surveillance, in any case that a 
Federal wiretap order is sought to provide that the wiretap follow the 
person no matter what phone that person uses. No longer would the 
standard be if you have grounds to tap and grounds to obtain a court 
order, you tap a particular person's phone, and if that person moves to 
another phone, you either have to provide a showing that they are 
deliberately trying to thwart or you have to then get another court 
order.
  This is a very important civil liberty and privacy right. The 
government, however, under this legislation if this bill passes would 
be able to ``issue an order authorizing the interception of all 
communications made by a particular person regardless of what telephone 
he may use.'' That is language from the conference report. To argue 
with a straight face that that is a minor change to our electronic 
surveillance or wiretap laws is disingenuous. This is a significant 
change. It needs to be debated fully. I urge that this not be allowed 
to stand.
  I rise in opposition to this conference report, Mr. Speaker.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the distinguished 
gentleman from Florida (Mr. McCollum), the author of the provision, but 
I would also point out before I do that any Members who wish to read 
the section in question, it is section 604, published yesterday in the 
Congressional Record of the House on page H9530, and I think it is very 
clear, and the safeguards that are necessary I think are equally clear.
  Mr. McCOLLUM. Mr. Speaker, I want to point out to the Members that 
this is truly a minor change in the wiretap laws. It is designed to 
combat terrorism. Current law does permit multipoint, or roving 
wiretaps. Current law does permit this. Court approval is still 
required under this bill. Probable cause of criminal activity is still 
required for any wiretap.
  Current law requires the court to find intent to evade wiretap before 
allowing the tap of whatever phone is used by the suspect as opposed to 
a specific phone. But you can have it if that intent is proven. The 
bill simply changes this. It permits the court-ordered wiretap that 
follows the criminal terrorist suspect to whatever phone he uses if the 
court determines his actions show he is trying to evade the tap, not 
requiring the specific criminal intent which has been very hard to do. 
The bill also protects innocent people by limiting the tap of any phone 
to only those times when the criminal or terrorist suspect actually is 
using that phone.
  This is a very minor change. It is a change allowing the court to 
follow the suspect as it is doing now with the simple showing that 
there is an evasion effort by the criminal suspect rather than having 
to prove the technical intent which is almost impossible now to prove. 
That is all that this does.
  I urge a vote for the authorization bill.
  Mr. DICKS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3\1/2\ minutes to the distinguished 
gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi) who has been one of our most 
outstanding members.
  Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, I thank the distinguished ranking member for 
his kind words and for the time that he has yielded me, and I thank the 
distinguished chairman for his leadership in bringing this legislation 
to the floor. It is good to see you here, Mr. Chairman.
  Mr. Speaker, one of the concerns that I wanted to address in my 
remarks today is about the issue of whistle blowers. One of the major 
issues of contention indeed between the House and Senate committees 
over the past 2 years has been how to address the issue of employees of 
the executive branch who face reprisals or threats of reprisals for 
bringing information to the intelligence committees concerning serious 
violations of law in intelligence activities of the United States.
  I myself personally supported the Senate amendment which was very 
clear about those employees who brought to the attention of Congress 
issues of gross mismanagement, gross waste of funds, abuse of authority 
and specific danger to public health and safety. I thought that that 
amendment should have been passed, but we did not prevail in 
conference. But our chairman has made a valiant effort to protect those 
who come forth with information. While I would have liked to have seen 
the broader language, I am pleased that we have the report language 
that specifically says that those who come forward with information who 
have a right to have that information will not have reprisals against 
them.
  While it is not disputed that the Congress is entitled by law to 
receive prompt reports of any illegal intelligence activities, 
officials of the executive branch have asserted that the Constitution 
does not permit Congress to vest in lower-level employees the right to 
disclose classified information, even to Members of Congress. These 
officials have asserted that any attempt to do so by Congress would 
lead them to recommend the President veto such legislation.
  The better constitutional view, of course, is that national security 
is a shared responsibility of the legislative and executive branches 
and that the Constitution does not deny Congress the power to direct 
executive activities and gain access to information needed for the 
performance of legislative duties.
  The conferees have made very clear in the findings and the 
legislative history of the legislation the following:
  First, Congress, as a coequal branch of government, has a need to 
know of allegations of wrongdoing within the intelligence community;
  Second, no basis in law exists for requiring prior authorization of 
disclosures to the intelligence committees of Congress by employees of 
the executive branch of classified information about wrongdoing within 
the intelligence community;
  Third, the nondisclosure agreements signed by employees of the 
Central Intelligence Agency stipulate that nothing contained in the 
agreement prohibits the employee from reporting intelligence activities 
the employee considers to be unlawful or improper directly to the 
select committees on intelligence of the Congress; and,
  Finally, separate and apart from the process established by the 
legislation

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through the inspector general, as proposed by our distinguished 
chairman, an intelligence community employee should not be subject to 
reprisals or threats of reprisals for making a report to appropriate 
members or staff of the intelligence committees about wrongdoing within 
the intelligence community.
  Mr. Speaker, the conferees have thus agreed to legislation that 
establishes a new and additional procedure for employees of 
intelligence agencies to bring issues of urgent concern to the 
attention of Congress through the offices of their inspector general. 
This procedure provides the employee who uses it the protections of 
confidentiality now found in the CIA and 1978 inspector general acts 
and discourages reprisals and threat of reprisals through a new 
reporting requirement on the heads of intelligence agencies.
  I trust, Mr. Speaker, that these findings and admonitions will guide 
the Director of the CIA and the heads of intelligence agencies in the 
treatment of intelligence community employees who seek to bring 
important information to the attention of Congress.
  Again I repeat my support for the report language that says even if 
you do not go this route, no reprisals.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the 
distinguished gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Shuster).
  (Mr. SHUSTER asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. SHUSTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of this 
legislation.
  The Fiscal Year 1999 intelligence authorization addresses a wide 
range of the intelligence community's current and future needs and it 
remedies areas where Congress has felt that funding was insufficient. 
Importantly, the conference report strengthens the ability of our 
intelligence agencies to respond to rogue states such as Iraq, to 
weapons proliferation by global competitor states such as China and 
Russia, and to terrorism. Today, anti-American terrorism ranges from 
the recent embassy bombings in Africa to murders and kidnappings in 
Latin America. The terrorist of the 1990's can be found in loosely knit 
groups motivated by anti-American hatreds, in groups such as the Usama 
bin Laden organization or the Hisballah in Lebanon or in the FARC in 
Colombia. In all cases, intelligence is called on repeatedly to track 
the activities of these individuals and groups, to provide threat 
warning, and to support the capture and prosecution of those 
responsible for the deaths of U.S. citizens.
  I wholeheartedly support the conference report because it also takes 
steps to strengthen key areas of U.S. intelligence collection and 
analytic capabilities. The conference report provides for more robust 
recapitalization and modernization of our signal intelligence 
capabilities. The conference report allocates increased funding to 
strengthen Human Intelligence collection. The conference report also 
provides additional funding to enhance the ability of intelligence 
analysts to assess the information that has been gathered. The 
intelligence committees recognize that increased and wiser investment 
in information age technologies will be necessary to cope with the 
large volumes of data. Finally, this conference report includes added 
resources to strengthen the ability of the Intelligence Community to 
perform force protection duties to protect our forces against terrorism 
and defense acquisition programs and operational activities against 
espionage.
  As a Member who has long supported efforts to wage and win the war on 
drugs, I applaud this conference report for what it does to enhance the 
Intelligence Community's ability to combat major multinational 
narcotics trafficking organizations. Although the Intelligence 
Community's share is but a small percentage of the total National Drug 
Control Strategy budget, intelligence counternarcotics programs have 
inflicted substantial damage on a number of the world's leading 
narcotics trafficking organizations in Latin America, and in Southeast 
and Southwest Asia. The counternarcotics programs supported by this 
conference report have and will continue to have a devastating impact 
on some of the world's most sophisticated and dangerous criminal 
organizations.
  The conference report will strengthen intelligence support to 
policymakers who must address growth in global organized crime 
involving such entities as the Russian Mafia, the Chinese Triad 
societies, and the Mexican drug cartels. The major Mexican, Colombian, 
and Asian narcotics trafficking organizations represent a growing and 
sophisticated national security threat to the United States. Only the 
U.S. intelligence community has the people and the technology to 
support policymaker response to this threat.
  The narcotics traffickers have the wealth to purchase the newest 
available encryption technology to communicate; they employ highly 
competent bankers, lawyers, and accountants to conceal their financial 
transactions on a global basis; their transport networks are highly 
flexible and respond quickly to changes in U.S. interdiction strategy; 
and the global supply of cocaine and heroin far exceeds demand in the 
United States and elsewhere. Close coordination between U.S. law 
enforcement agencies and intelligence is vital to U.S. efforts to 
reduce the flow of cocaine and heroin into the United States. Among 
those U.S. and foreign officials who are responsible for fighting drug 
trafficking, I am always told that their first priority is on obtaining 
accurate and timely intelligence on drug suppliers, transporters and 
money launderers. The conference report will provide the needed funds 
to enable the robust intelligence support that law enforcement needs.
  Mr. Speaker, I strongly support this conference report and urge that 
all Members of the House do the same.
  Mr. DICKS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  I want to also add my congratulations to Calvin Humphrey who has been 
one of our most outstanding staff people. I want to congratulate him on 
the great job he has done for our committee. He has handled some of the 
most difficult assignments. He had to travel with Congressman 
Richardson all over the world. Together, they got many American 
citizens out of tight spots around the world.
  The only thing I have ever had a problem with Calvin on is his 
devotion to the Cleveland Indians even when they kept my Seattle 
Mariners out of the World Series. That I may not be able to forgive him 
for, but I will never forget him. We wish him well in his new post.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I would certainly like to use some of that time also to have my best 
wishes to Calvin Humphrey's future. Let me tell you that even on the 
Intelligence Committee, we are sometimes surprised. When I heard that 
public statement made this morning, I would put it in the category of 
surprise. It does not diminish in any way my good wishes for your 
future success which I know are very well assured because of your 
capabilities. I want to thank you very much not only for getting me out 
of North Korea but for getting me into North Korea. That was a very 
valuable experience. And all the other things you have done for our 
committee.
  I also need to say thank you to every member of our committee. Every 
member brings something to the Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence and is given an extraordinary trust on behalf of all 
Members and all people of this country. It is a remarkable committee. I 
hope people who have been watching this and other Members can see that 
we are able to do our business well, in a bipartisan and professional 
way, because there is good will to do it and there is an understanding 
of the need to do it and get it done.

                              {time}  1145

  Mr. Speaker, I have nothing but pride for all of the Members and the 
way they work and the staff that so ably supports us.
  I have mentioned some staff; I have to mention Mike Chi and the job 
he does with all of what I will call not his staff but our staff 
because I do not make a distinction between one party or the other and 
the staff. John Mills, our chief of staff, has done a remarkable job, I 
think, of trying to pull together in a harmony all the management needs 
to discharge our responsibilities ably. Tim Sample has done an 
extraordinary job managing numbers. I never will entirely understand, 
but I am told they always add up, and I check the bottom line, and they 
seem to.
  These are important people that are doing important work far from the 
madding crowd, far out of the visibility of the ``hoo-wah'' of the 
Beltway and the media. The work is getting done, and it matters because 
we are talking about national security. I want to thank everybody 
involved.
  As for the whistle-blower provisions, I want to thank everybody for 
their understanding, the compromise that was worked out, and I assure 
the gentlewoman from California, if we find that this is not working as 
well as I hope it will, that we always will be able to revisit it in 
the future. I believe this will work.

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  With regard to those concerned about the matter that was brought up 
by the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Barr) and the gentleman from Florida 
(Mr. McCollum) I have read the safeguards that are in the bill; I think 
they are adequate. Again, if something egregious comes out of this, 
obviously we are prepared to resolve it.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman 
from Ohio (Mr. Oxley).
  (Mr. OXLEY asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. OXLEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the conference report.
  Mr. GOSS. I would also on a personal note thank everybody for a 
difficult time while I have been away. It just goes to show that 
everybody is expendable here, and I appreciate being reminded of that. 
It keeps me humble.
  Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to remind the Members of this 
body of the unfinished business we have regarding the dark, terrible, 
still classified secrets of our intelligence agencies. The list of 
misdeeds by our intelligence agencies is long and much of it still 
remains shrouded in secrecy, in many cases acting to protect criminals 
who have died and dictators who are no longer in power. We must end our 
senseless protection of these terrible acts. Congress has the power to 
do so, and must not shirk its duty.
  I have focused my energies on investigating the allegations of 
Contra-CIA drug dealing. But, there are many other sordid, terrible 
tales of U.S. intelligence activities that remain a secret to the 
American people. Some have been investigated, while the reports remain 
classified. Others have yet to be investigated. The list includes the 
CIA's involvement with the brutal Battalion 316 in Honduras, the 
overthrow of Arbenz in Guatemala and Allende in Chile, the death squads 
in El Salvador, Duvalier's drug dealing regime and the ton ton macout 
death squads of Haiti, and of course, the many illegal assassination 
attempts against Fidel Castro. We must release the information we have 
about these affairs, investigate the others that remain unexamined and 
bring those responsible to justice. We cannot exhort other nations to 
follow the rule of law without ensuring that we likewise follow the 
rule of law.
  My investigation into the allegations of CIA-Contra drug dealing has 
led me to an undeniable conclusion--that U.S. intelligence and law 
enforcement agencies knew about drug trafficking in South Central Los 
Angeles and throughout the U.S.--and they let the dealing go on without 
taking any actions against it.
  Robert Perry and Brian Barger first broke the shocking story of 
Contra involvement in drug trafficking in 1985, at the height of the 
Contra war against Nicaragua. As a result of this story's revelations, 
Senator John Kerry conducted a two year Senate probe into the 
allegations and published the sub-committee's devastating findings in 
an 1,166-page report in 1989.
  Remarkably, the Committee's findings went virtually unreported when 
they were released.
  Then in August 1996 Gary Webb published his explosive series in the 
San Jose Mercury News. It resulted in a firestorm of anger and outrage 
in the Black community and throughout the nation. Here was evidence 
that, while the nation was being told of a national ``war on drugs'' by 
the Reagan Administration, our anti-drug intelligence apparatus was 
actually aiding the drug lords in getting their deadly product into the 
U.S.
  The resulting grassroots outrage put tremendous pressure on the CIA, 
the Department of Justice and Congress to investigate the matter and 
report the truth. The Inspectors General of the CIA and Department of 
Justice were forced to conduct investigations and publish reports on 
the allegations. The DOJ's Report and Volume I of the CIA's Report 
published brief executive summaries that concluded that the allegations 
made in the Mercury News could not be substantiated. However, both 
Reports, and in particular the DOJ Report, are filled with evidence 
that contradicts their own conclusions and confirms all of the basic 
allegations.

  Quite unexpectedly, on April 30, 1998, I obtained a secret 1982 
Memorandum of Understanding between the CIA and the Department of 
Justice, that allowed drug trafficking by CIA assets, agents, and 
contractors to go unreported to federal law enforcement agencies. I 
also received correspondence between then Attorney General William 
French Smith and the head of the CIA, William Casey, that spelled out 
their intent to protect drug traffickers on the CIA payroll from being 
reported to federal law enforcement.
  Then on July 17, 1998 the New York Times ran this amazing front page 
CIA admission:

         CIA Says It Used Nicaraguan Rebels Accused of Drug Tie

       [T]he Central Intelligence Agency continued to work with 
     about two dozen Nicaraguan rebels and their supporters during 
     the 1980s despite allegations that they were trafficking in 
     drugs . . . [T]he agency's decision to keep those paid 
     agents, or to continue dealing with them in some less formal 
     relationship, was made by top [CIA] officials at headquarters 
     in Langley, Va. (emphasis added)

  This front page confirmation of CIA involvement with Contra drug 
traffickers came from a leak of the still classified CIA Volume II 
internal review, described by sources as full of devastating 
revelations of CIA involvement with known Contra drug traffickers.
  The CIA had always vehemently denied any connection to drug 
traffickers and the massive global drug trade, despite over ten years 
of documented reports. But in a shocking reversal, the CIA finally 
admitted that it was CIA policy to keep Contra drug traffickers on the 
CIA payroll.
  The Committee has yet to release Volume II of the CIA Inspector 
General's investigation into the CIA-Contra drug network. But this body 
is moving ahead with reauthorizing the Central Intelligence Agency. I 
call on Members of the Committee and this body to end our policy of 
protecting criminal conduct by intelligence assets. Declassify and 
release these reports so that the many who have suffered can seek 
justice and we can bring the many still protected criminals to justice.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and I 
move the previous question on the conference report.
  The previous question was ordered.


           Motion to Recommit Offered By Mr. Barr of Georgia

  Mr. BARR of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I offer a motion to recommit with 
instructions.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Sessions). Is the gentleman opposed to 
the conference report?
  Mr. BARR of Georgia. He is, Mr. Speaker.


                         Parliamentary Inquiry

  Mr. DICKS. Parliamentary inquiry, Mr. Speaker.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will please state his 
parliamentary inquiry.
  Mr. DICKS. It is my understanding that this bill was taken up in the 
Senate yesterday. If that is true, can there be a motion to recommit?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. One moment. The Chair will examine the 
official papers.
  Mr. DICKS. Mr. Speaker, I have now been informed by staff that the 
bill was not taken up yesterday, so I withdraw my objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to 
recommit.
  The Clerk read as follows:

  Mr. Barr of Georgia moves to recommit the Intelligence Authorization 
Conference bill to the Committee on Conference with instructions to the 
managers on the part of the House to remove section 604.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the previous question is 
ordered on the motion to recommit.
  There was no objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to recommit.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the noes appeared to have it.
  Mr. BARR of Georgia. 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.
  Pursuant to the provisions of clause 5, rule XV, the Chair announces 
the he will reduce to a minimum of 5 minutes the period of time within 
a vote by electronic device, if ordered, will be taken on the question 
of passage.
  The Sergeant at Arms will notify absent Members.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 148, 
nays 267, not voting 19, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 486]

                               YEAS--148

     Abercrombie
     Aderholt
     Bachus
     Ballenger
     Barcia
     Barr
     Barrett (WI)
     Bartlett
     Becerra
     Bonilla
     Bonior
     Bryant
     Burton
     Camp
     Campbell
     Cannon
     Cardin
     Carson
     Chabot
     Chenoweth
     Christensen
     Clayton
     Clyburn
     Coburn
     Conyers
     Cooksey
     Cox
     Coyne
     Crapo
     Cubin
     Cummings
     Davis (IL)
     Deal
     DeFazio
     Delahunt
     DeLay
     Doggett
     Doolittle
     Duncan

[[Page H9740]]


     Ehrlich
     Emerson
     English
     Ensign
     Everett
     Filner
     Ford
     Fossella
     Furse
     Gillmor
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Gutknecht
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Herger
     Hill
     Hilleary
     Hilliard
     Hinchey
     Hostettler
     Inglis
     Istook
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jenkins
     Johnson (WI)
     Jones
     Kanjorski
     Kilpatrick
     Kingston
     Klink
     Largent
     Lee
     Lewis (GA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Lofgren
     Lucas
     Maloney (CT)
     Manzullo
     Matsui
     McDade
     McGovern
     McInnis
     McIntosh
     McKinney
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Metcalf
     Mica
     Mink
     Mollohan
     Moran (KS)
     Myrick
     Neal
     Neumann
     Ney
     Norwood
     Owens
     Pappas
     Parker
     Pastor
     Paul
     Payne
     Petri
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Pombo
     Radanovich
     Rangel
     Redmond
     Riley
     Rivers
     Rohrabacher
     Royce
     Ryun
     Salmon
     Sanders
     Sanford
     Scarborough
     Schaffer, Bob
     Scott
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Smith (MI)
     Smith, Linda
     Snowbarger
     Stark
     Stearns
     Stokes
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thompson
     Thornberry
     Thurman
     Tiahrt
     Torres
     Towns
     Traficant
     Velazquez
     Wamp
     Waters
     Watkins
     Watt (NC)
     Watts (OK)
     Weller
     Whitfield
     Wilson
     Yates

                               NAYS--267

     Ackerman
     Allen
     Archer
     Armey
     Baesler
     Baker
     Baldacci
     Barrett (NE)
     Barton
     Bass
     Bateman
     Bentsen
     Bereuter
     Berman
     Berry
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop
     Blagojevich
     Bliley
     Blumenauer
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bono
     Borski
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (CA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brown (OH)
     Bunning
     Burr
     Buyer
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Canady
     Capps
     Castle
     Chambliss
     Clement
     Coble
     Collins
     Combest
     Condit
     Cook
     Costello
     Cramer
     Crane
     Cunningham
     Danner
     Davis (FL)
     Davis (VA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Deutsch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dickey
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Dixon
     Dooley
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Dunn
     Edwards
     Ehlers
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Evans
     Ewing
     Farr
     Fawell
     Fazio
     Foley
     Forbes
     Fowler
     Fox
     Frank (MA)
     Franks (NJ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Frost
     Gallegly
     Ganske
     Gejdenson
     Gekas
     Gephardt
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Gilman
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Goss
     Granger
     Green
     Greenwood
     Gutierrez
     Hall (OH)
     Hall (TX)
     Hamilton
     Hansen
     Harman
     Hastert
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hefner
     Hinojosa
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Holden
     Hooley
     Horn
     Houghton
     Hoyer
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Hutchinson
     Hyde
     Jefferson
     John
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson, E.B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Kaptur
     Kasich
     Kelly
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kildee
     Kim
     King (NY)
     Kleczka
     Klug
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Kucinich
     LaHood
     Lampson
     Lantos
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Lazio
     Leach
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Linder
     Lipinski
     Livingston
     LoBiondo
     Lowey
     Luther
     Maloney (NY)
     Manton
     Markey
     Mascara
     McCarthy (MO)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McHale
     McHugh
     McIntyre
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Menendez
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (CA)
     Miller (FL)
     Minge
     Moakley
     Moran (VA)
     Morella
     Murtha
     Nadler
     Nethercutt
     Northup
     Nussle
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Oxley
     Packard
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Paxon
     Pease
     Pelosi
     Peterson (MN)
     Pickett
     Pomeroy
     Porter
     Portman
     Price (NC)
     Quinn
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Reyes
     Riggs
     Rodriguez
     Roemer
     Rogan
     Rogers
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Rothman
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Sabo
     Sanchez
     Sandlin
     Sawyer
     Saxton
     Schaefer, Dan
     Schumer
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Sisisky
     Skaggs
     Skeen
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (OR)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith, Adam
     Snyder
     Spence
     Spratt
     Stabenow
     Stenholm
     Strickland
     Stump
     Stupak
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Tauzin
     Taylor (MS)
     Taylor (NC)
     Thomas
     Thune
     Tierney
     Turner
     Upton
     Vento
     Visclosky
     Walsh
     Waxman
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Wexler
     Weygand
     Wicker
     Wise
     Wolf
     Woolsey
     Wynn
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--19

     Andrews
     Clay
     Fattah
     Goodling
     Graham
     Kennedy (MA)
     Kennelly
     Kind (WI)
     LaFalce
     Martinez
     McCrery
     McKeon
     Peterson (PA)
     Poshard
     Pryce (OH)
     Roukema
     Solomon
     Souder
     White

                              {time}  1215

  Messrs. COMBEST, KOLBE, FORBES, HUTCHINSON, SHADEGG, TAYLOR of 
Mississippi, NADLER, MILLER of California, REYES and OBEY and Ms. 
KAPTUR changed their vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  Messrs. KINGSTON, REDMOND, WELLER, ADERHOLT BRYANT, SALMON, BOB 
SCHAFFER of Colorado, HILLIARD, DELAHUNT, CRAPO, THOMPSON, JACKSON of 
Illinois, SERRANO, FOSSELLA, DOGGETT, PICKERING, YATES, FORD and 
McGOVERN and Mrs. THURMAN, Ms. KILPATRICK, Ms. VELAZQUEZ, Mrs. CLAYTON, 
and Mrs. MEEK of Florida changed their vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So the motion was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.

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