[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 164 (Thursday, November 18, 1999)]
[House]
[Pages H12731-H12737]
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PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.J. RES. 82, MAKING FURTHER CONTINUING 
 APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2000 AND H.J. RES. 83, MAKING FURTHER 
       CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2000--Continued

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. LaTourette). The pending business is 
consideration of House Resolution 385 offered by the gentleman from 
Florida (Mr. Goss).
  The gentleman from Florida (Mr. Goss) is recognized for 1 hour.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, for purposes of debate only, I yield the 
customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Moakley), 
my colleague, pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. 
During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is for the 
purpose of debate only.
  Mr. Speaker, today, we place before the House what will hopefully be 
the last continuing resolution for fiscal year 2000. Yesterday, I 
referred to the movie ``Groundhog Day'' to describe the events of the 
past few weeks, where we seem to wake up each morning and do the same 
things we did the day before. And while we are here again as we were 
yesterday considering a rule to bring forward another short-term 
extension of the budget deadline, we are confident that a final 
agreement has been brokered and the process is finally now near total 
completion.
  Like yesterday's, this rule is a standard closed rule providing for 
consideration of a continuing resolution whose expiration date is 
November 23. The rule waives all points of order against consideration 
of the joint resolution, provides 1 hour of debate, equally divided 
between the chairman and ranking member of the Committee on 
Appropriations, and affords the traditional motion to recommit.
  Mr. Speaker, we have all been struggling to find the right 
negotiating mix to bring this budget process to a conclusion. Our firm 
line in the sand has remained constant: we will not spend one dime of 
the Social Security Trust Fund. While there has been the normal and 
appropriate give and take between the White House and the Congress on a 
host of other issues, our constituents, both young and old, I think are 
the real winners today.
  Mr. Speaker, for the first time in over the 3 decades, Washington, 
D.C., will not be using Social Security as a slush fund. We have made 
the tough choices necessary to balance the budget without touching 
Social Security. It has been a long, it has been an arduous process; 
but the end result under the circumstances, I think, is well worth the 
effort: a more secure retirement for all Americans.
  Just as there was 5 years ago when our new majority pledged to 
balance the budget, some cynical naysayers have claimed that we could 
not do the job this year without borrowing from Social Security. They 
were wrong in 1994, and they are wrong again today. We can do better, 
and this budget proves it.
  Mr. Speaker, I want to particularly commend at this time the 
gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hastert), Speaker of the House, for his 
persistence and leadership, and the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young), 
the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, and all the other 
Members who have made this day come to pass.
  It is a good victory for Congress, and a good one for the American 
people. I urge a ``yes'' vote on the rule and the underlying CR, of 
course.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Florida (Mr. 
Goss), who I have not seen since 4 o'clock this morning, for yielding 
me the customary half hour, and I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Mr. Speaker, even though we are 49 days into the fiscal year, only 
eight of the thirteen appropriation bills have been signed into law. 
Appropriation negotiations have been going on and on and on, with 
little hope in sight. That is until very early this morning.
  Early this morning at about 2 o'clock, the appropriators and the 
White House reached agreement on an enormous omnibus appropriations 
bill that lumps all unfinished business together in one massive 
document nearly no one can understand. And supposedly, we just need to 
pass a couple of more continuing resolutions to keep the government 
open until the appropriation process is mercifully behind us, and the 
President signs this behemoth bill.
  Mr. Speaker, the rule we are considering today makes in order not 
one, but two continuing resolutions. The first expires on November 23, 
and the second expires on December 2. I am told this is done to 
accommodate the deliberations of the Senate, so I see no reason to 
oppose it, despite the strange and inefficient process.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this rule, and support 
the continuing resolution.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the distinguished 
gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young), my

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 colleague and friend, the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations.
  Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Florida 
(Mr. Goss) for yielding me the time, and I think we are going to pass 
the rule without too much difficulty.
  But, Mr. Speaker, if I could have the attention of the House, the 
gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Moakley) just mentioned the 4 o'clock 
hour, and he is right on target. At 6 minutes after 3 a.m. this 
morning, with the gentleman from California (Mr. Dreier) in the chair, 
I was able to file the final agreement on the last appropriations 
package.
  We went to the Committee on Rules at 20 minutes after 3:00 and by 
3:45, my part of it was complete and I was home by 4:30 this morning. I 
am not sure when the gentleman from Massachusetts got home, but the 
important issue here is that I have the opportunity to compliment and 
congratulate the Members of the Committee on Appropriations and the 
subcommittee chairmen and all of those who have done such a good job 
through this process.
  But, Mr. Speaker, the unsung heroes do not often get those accolades, 
and I think it is appropriate that they do. Those heroes are the 
members of the Committee on Rules. They are here for early morning 
meetings and late night meetings. I want to compliment the gentleman 
from California (Mr. Dreier) and all of the members of the Committee on 
Rules for being available when the legislative process requires their 
presence.
  In the last 10 days of our very serious negotiation with the 
representatives from the President's office, there have been numerous 
evenings when the Committee on Rules was told, be available, because we 
think we might have a bill for their consideration tonight. They have 
had to wait here until 10 or 11 o'clock at night, or midnight, and then 
the appropriators were not ready or the deal had not been struck yet. 
They have been so faithful to their responsibilities, and I just think 
it is timely to call attention to the work that they do and the 
generous giving of their time to help this process move.
  Again, I want to thank the gentleman from California (Chairman 
Dreier) and the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Moakley), the ranking 
member, and all of the members of the Committee on Rules for being so 
patient with us as we move this process through.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield 8 minutes to the gentleman from 
Wisconsin (Mr. Obey), ranking member on the Committee on 
Appropriations.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, first of all, before I begin, I simply want to 
say something about two people. I would like to say that the gentleman 
from Florida (Mr. Young) is one of the most decent human beings I have 
ever dealt with in the over 30 years I have been a Member of this 
House. He and I do not share the same political philosophy on many, 
many issues; and he and I have different institutional 
responsibilities. We try to meet our institutional responsibilities to 
this House as one.
  Mr. Speaker, I want to say with all the sincerity at my command that 
the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young), in the way that he deals 
honorably with each and every other Member of this House, is the way 
every Member of this place ought to deal with each and every Member. I 
know that if the gentleman promises me something, he will stick to it. 
And I know that he will do the best job that he can to deal with the 
concerns of each and every Member of this House.
  I also want to say that with respect to his counterpart in the other 
body, Senator Stevens, Senator Stevens and I are both known for our 
placid temperaments. I simply want to say that I regard Senator Stevens 
as one of the easiest people to deal with. Not because he is easy in 
negotiations; he is hard as nails. But one always knows where he is 
coming from, and he plays it straight; and I, again, appreciate that 
very much.
  Mr. Speaker, I want to explain why I called the last motion, and why 
I will be calling a number of other motions today. I think there are 
certain requirements that this House ought to meet in dealing with the 
most basic responsibility it has each year, which is to pass the budget 
for the coming year.
  Budgets are not just numbers. They define our priorities. They 
indicate our values. The budget is the primary document by which 
Congress tries to influence the future direction of this country. We 
owe it to the country to consider that budget in a serious, thoughtful, 
fair-minded and honest way.
  We are not going to do that today. The gentleman from Florida (Mr. 
Young) indicated that this rule was put to bed at almost 4 o'clock this 
morning. It looks like it. I saw Arianna Huffington, again a person 
with whom I do not share much in common philosophically, but I saw her 
on a television program on women's issues a few nights ago; and she 
observed that she was very concerned about politicians who would brag 
about the fact that they were up until 4 o'clock in the morning making 
decisions. She said, ``I do not trust any decision that is made at 4 
o'clock in the morning,'' and I think she is largely right.
  My problem, and I have numerous problems with this bill and I will 
explain more of them in detail when we get to the actual appropriation 
vehicle later on today or tomorrow, but the fact is that there are two 
problems that I have that override all others. First of all, we have at 
least nine separate authorization measures which are being folded into 
this bill. One of them, a more than 300-page authorization bill which 
is yet to be conferenced, and yet it is being thrown in here. I defy my 
colleagues to tell me what is in it, and I urge my colleagues to 
remember that we will probably be, long after this bill is done, we 
will be trying to find out what is in it.
  There are nine separate authorizations. I believe instead of having 
only 1 hour to debate all of those authorizations, plus the budgetary 
decisions that were made here in the bill before us today, I believe 
each of those authorizations should be pulled out of the bill. They 
should be debated separately and sequentially for at least an hour 
before we vote on each and every one of them.
  Secondly, I think we should have had 24 hours to understand what is 
in this bill. We are going to be haunted by a number of things that are 
in this bill. Mr. Speaker, among the authorizations that are added to 
this bill are the Medicare, Medicaid and State Children's Health 
Insurance program, which I probably favor. But I think we ought to know 
more about how they are being put together.
  Second, we have the Admiral James W. Nance and Meg Donovan Foreign 
Relations Authorizations Act. I do not have the foggiest idea what is 
in that and neither does anybody else on the floor. We have H.R. 3428, 
which brings several dairy authorization measures to this floor, 
including the Northeast Compact. That compact was slipped into the law 
in the first place several years ago without ever having been voted on 
by either body. It was slipped in by the Senate, and now we are again 
slipping it in without it ever having been considered by either body. I 
think that is illegitimate.
  The Intellectual Property and Communications Omnibus Reform Act. That 
is the satellite bill. I understand, coming from a rural area, the loan 
guarantees that are useful in rural areas have been taken out of that 
bill.

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  I understand there are also patents and trademark items in that bill. 
I think we ought to know more about that.
  We have the Superfund Recycling Equity Act. This bill reminds me of 
what Churchill said about Russia, ``A riddle wrapped in a mystery 
inside an enigma.'' We do not have any idea what that bill is really 
going to do in the fine print.
  Then we have the Canyon Ferry Reservoir provisions, and international 
debt relief (again which I favor); but I am concerned, very, very 
concerned, about one section of that bill, which I think may not in 
fact deliver what it appears to promise.
  Then we have a number of private bills which have been attached, one 
of which I think I would favor and the other which I am concerned about 
because it only includes a few people out of a much broader class that 
ought to be included in the kind of relief contemplated by that bill 
that is going to be given.
  In my view, every time I make a motion which requires a rollcall 
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can proceed to the next stage, that gives Members more time to find out 
what is in this bill before they actually cast the most important vote 
of the session. That is why I intend to make numerous motions today, 
and I most definitely would not count on being out of here by 4 p.m. or 
5 p.m., or maybe even today.


                Announcement by the Speaker pro tempore

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. LaTourette). The Chair would remind all 
Members that it is not appropriate to make references to the 
characteristics of Senators, even favorable characteristics.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Minnesota (Mr. Minge).
  Mr. MINGE. Mr. Speaker, I would like to begin by associating myself 
with the comments of the gentleman from Wisconsin.
  Today, we have before us an omnibus bill which, unfortunately, bears 
many similarities to the legislation that we considered a year ago at 
the close of the session. And for many of us, we promised we would 
never again let ourselves be trapped in this situation. We had a 
bipartisan budget process reform task force that worked. We came up 
with a series of recommendations. But, tragically, none of these 
recommendations was even brought to the floor for debate. I hope that 
in the year 2000 we can indeed take up this budget reform proposal and, 
hopefully, avoid an omnibus catch-all bill of the type that is being 
criticized today.
  I recognize there are many good points to the bill, and I too would 
compliment the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations for his 
work. I have deep respect for him. But I would like to point out that 
there are many things in there that ought to be separately considered 
or are simply inappropriate in the bill, and commitments were made 
earlier in the session by the Speaker, by the majority leader and 
others that these provisions would not show up in an appropriations 
bill.
  One such provision relates to dairy policy. In this country we have 
endured a dairy policy which has split our Nation into separate zones 
for no good reason other than to try to maintain some anti-competitive 
framework in dairy. This is crazy. In early December, we will go to 
Seattle, many will go to Seattle, for the WTO conference where we will 
be urging that Congress expand our international trade opportunities. 
And why is it at the same time that we are expanding international 
trade opportunities we continue to balkanize our country with respect 
to dairy programming?
  Mr. Speaker, it makes absolutely no sense that we would continue to 
balkanize this country for purposes of dairy policy so that fluid milk 
from one part of the country, namely the upper Midwest, is at a 
competitive disadvantage because of government policy with fluid milk 
from other parts of the country. We cannot allow this type of 
antiquated dairy policy to survive, and for this reason and others I 
will be opposing the bill.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Frank).
  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, I am sorry, marginally, to 
delay proceedings, but I do not think that significant deaths should go 
unnoticed. Unmourned, yes, but not unnoticed. And I am talking about 
the caps of 1997.
  In 1997, this House engaged in a great orgy of self-congratulation by 
adopting a budget bill which not only cut Medicare, apparently without 
anybody here realizing that that was happening, but which enacted a set 
of restrictions on total spending. They would have lasted from 1997 
until 2002, and they would be a template for the future. Alas, they did 
not last very long. The great balanced budget accomplishment of 1997, 
the caps, which were unnecessary and unrealistic at the time, have 
died. And it does not seem to me in this Chamber, where we are so given 
to ceremonial oratory, that we ought to allow that death to pass 
unnoticed.
  The premature passing of the caps, as I said, is not an occasion for 
mourning. I think it is an occasion for celebration that reality has 
finally broken through the ideological miasma, but it ought to be 
noted. And it ought to be noted for a couple of reasons.
  First of all, there were many of us who, in 1997, thought that the 
caps were, to use technical parliamentary language, a very stupid idea. 
They were clearly unrealistic, unsustainable, and they were a farce. 
And I find, Mr. Speaker, having been one of those who said that in 
1997, that as I get older one of the few pleasures that increases with 
age is being able to say, ``I told you so.'' So I do want to say that I 
and others told you so in 1997. Welcome to reality.
  But it also is important because it shows that the vision of the role 
of the public sector that motivated this House, and particularly the 
majority in 1997, was flawed deeply. The American public understood 
better than this House did that there are needs that can best be served 
by private expenditures, but for a civilized society to achieve the 
right quality of life, some things have to be done together; 
transportation, the environment, compassion for people in need, public 
safety.
  And the reason the caps died unceremoniously, hopefully unnoticed, 
according to the people on the other side, they have a new thing about 
Social Security spending, but I urge people to go back and read the 
budget debates of 1997. Never has an entity, the caps, been so widely 
praised and so quickly thrown over the side when reality broke in.
  But the important point is that this is simply not a mistake made in 
numbers. It was a miscalculation about the American people's 
understanding of the importance of a public sector. The problem the 
people who put the caps had is this. It is a mathematical problem. They 
tried to construct a whole that was smaller than the sum of the parts.
  All year we have been dealing with the parts. And as we look at those 
parts, public safety, education, the environment, highways, et cetera, 
et cetera, as we look at the parts, we find that they add up to more 
than that whole. And, therefore, the whole with the ``W'' has become a 
hole with an ``H.'' It has become a hole in the ground into which the 
caps have been interred and over which today we will shovel the dirt.
  So Members should be aware that when they vote today on the major 
bill, the multi-omnibus appropriation bill, they are funding the 
government at a reasonable level. And funding the government at a 
reasonable level means the end of the caps. And I hope that we will not 
again put ourselves through that.
  Now, of course, it is also the case that that bill will undo part of 
what we did with Medicare. And as I look at the extent to which this 
bill today will repudiate what was so enthusiastically held in 1997, I 
do wonder whether or not the crack investigative team, assembled by the 
gentleman from Indiana on the Committee on Government Reform, ought not 
to be set forward. Because there is a possibility that in 1997 
imposters invaded this House, impersonated Members and voted into 
public policy Medicare and spending programs that were so foolish that 
today we have to repudiate them.
  Now, back in 1997, DNA evidence was not as developed, so we may never 
know whether it was the real Members of the House or a group of mass 
invaders who did it. But whatever the reason was, the fact that the 
bill today will be a thorough repudiation of the mistakes of 1997, is 
something to be noticed, although not mourned.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield 4\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman 
from Texas (Ms. Jackson-Lee).
  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to revise 
and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I wish we could vote. I wish 
we had something of consequence to vote on. I wish my colleagues on the 
other side of the aisle would have provided us with real legislation.
  I thank my good friend from Massachusetts, the ranking member of the 
Committee on Rules; but unfortunately, what we have here is a bag of 
tricks. This is a continuing resolution with an extension to November 
23. It is a rule for that. I would ask, though I do realize that we are 
facing the Thanksgiving holiday, that we take our responsibilities in 
this body seriously. And though I appreciate the work of the chairman 
of the Committee on Appropriations and the ranking member for their 
individual intensity in the negotiations of this particular omnibus

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bill, it is sad and it is not worthy of the American people.
  Earlier this morning we heard a point that I think is very well 
taken. The American people do not even know what we are doing up here. 
They do not understand the concept, and all of the mishmash and 
misinformation that has been given to them leaves them confused.
  I think this bill has some valuable points to it. Ultimately, when it 
comes to the floor, we are told that teaching hospitals, Medicare 
payments to hospitals, and health care providers are included. That is 
a positive. It helps my community in Houston. My own school district 
suffered for the lack of teachers, so 100,000 teachers will be 
valuable. Fifty thousand police will be valuable as well.
  But I cannot tell for the life of me whether we are spending the 
Social Security surplus or whether we are saving it. And because my 
seniors are extremely important to me, I have great doubts about this 
bill. And, in fact, since it is not here on the table, I think all the 
Members should be questioning this bill.
  Then it is interesting that although we have argued continuously 
about riders and legislating on appropriations bills, because every 
time we bring up the idea of a patients' bill of rights, which 80 
percent of the American people would like to see us pass, or 
prescription protection for our seniors, who are begging for relief 
because they cannot pay for housing and food and prescriptions at the 
same time, we get an argument that we cannot legislate on 
appropriations bills. Yet we have a 300-page State Department bill, 
which nobody knows what is in it; we have satellite TV special 
interests, and I am sure they are interested in that. I happen to 
support the resolution on that. But here we are lumping all of that 
together. We have the dairy issue, which some of our Members are for 
and against.

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  We are lowering the maintenance and readiness of our military by 
cutting into that very deeply. We have literally taken women for 
granted and thrown them aside because we have said family planning for 
women around the world, protecting their lives is irrelevant; here goes 
women again; just throw them off the side of the Earth.
  And then I have been meeting for the families of the victims of the 
Tanzania and Kenya bombings. We agree we were in error. We know we did 
not have the kind of secure premises that we should have had in our 
embassies overseas. And yet, nobody has responded to the plea of these 
families to provide them with any relief. At least no one has called my 
office and said that we have given relief to the victims of those 
bombings who have lost loved ones. Some family members lost two members 
of their family.
  And then we leave in a deep, dark hole 300,000 immigrants who have 
been paying taxes in this country who pleaded to simply allow them to 
apply for legal citizenship because the INS messed up procedurally 
their right to apply for citizenship. We have been begging for relief 
for these individuals who own homes, who pay taxes, whose children are 
in school, but we have thrown them aside.
  Human lives around here does not matter. But if they have got a big 
checkbook, they can write a check to somebody, you can be sure, to get 
their stuff in an omnibus bill.
  I would tell Members who are considering voting for this that it is 
not worth voting for and sacrificing principles when they do not know 
whether they are saving Social Security or whether they are digging a 
big, deep hole.
  If we had gone through this process the way we were supposed to go 
through it and had the appropriate review of these appropriations 
bills, maybe we would be able to have a considered process in dealing 
with this omnibus bill.
  I would simply say, Mr. Speaker, that this continuing resolution 
really needs to be extended so that we can go to the drawing boards and 
deal with this bill in the way that the American people would like us 
to do so. And that is to include the likes of prescription protection 
for our seniors; include a patients' bill of rights; to discuss a real 
hate crimes bill; to provide compensation for the families who lost 
loved ones in the bombings in Africa; to keep family planning in; and, 
yes, to take care of our teaching hospitals, the 100,000 teachers and 
the 50,000 police.
  But for God's sake, let us not vote on a ghost of a bill when we do 
not know whether we are saving Social Security or spending every dime.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Minnesota (Mr. Peterson).
  Mr. PETERSON of Minnesota. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for 
yielding me the time.
  Mr. Speaker, I want to today associate myself with the remarks of the 
gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey). This is no way to do the process 
and the work of the House.
  As the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey) pointed out, we have nine 
authorizations in this bill. I would like to focus on one of them.
  I have had the misfortune, I guess you might call it, of serving on 
the Livestock and Horticulture Subcommittee of the Committee on 
Agriculture the last 4 years and went through the process when Steve 
Gunderson and myself, as ranking member, and tried to bring some 
legislation to the floor.
  At that time, we were told that this was too complicated; we could 
not legislate it; so we had to give this to the Department and set up a 
process to figure out how we are going to untangle this convoluted 
system that puts one part of the country against another.
  So we went through that process. The results did not please the 
people that put this forward, so now they have turned around 180 
degrees and they say, well, now it is not appropriate to do this by 
rule; now we are going to legislate it.
  But what people need to understand, in addition to that, the fact 
that we are legislating 1(a), which is basically the current fluid milk 
differentials, we are also legislating the Northeast Compact again in 
this bill, we are taking probably the most important part of the dairy 
provision and suspending it until December 1, 2000. And that is the new 
manufacturing price maneuver that was established under this rule that 
USDA put forward.
  Now, those of my colleagues that have dairy farms in their district 
should understand this. I represent a district that in some places we 
have more cows than we have people. I have one county that has 63,000 
cows. I have more cows in my district than they have in the whole 
entire Northeast Dairy Compact. And so, we are very concerned about 
this. But the people that represent dairy farmers understand that the 
basic formula price that we have got in place has caused some 
tremendous volatility in the prices for dairy farmers.
  We have seen a drop of $6 a hundredweight a few months ago. We just 
saw another big drop recently. We are not going to fix this by stalling 
this whole process and legislating, basically, the status quo on dairy.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Maine 
(Mr. Baldacci).
  Mr. BALDACCI. Mr. Speaker, first of all, this is certainly a very 
terrible process, and it is no way to run a railroad.
  There are many things that I would add, or there are many things that 
I would take out if I were in charge and was able to do it. But that is 
not the way the process works. And now we are at this particular point.
  I think that there are more good things in this package than there 
are things that cause me concern to vote against it. One, I would like 
to focus on in particular is dairy.
  The policies that we have been hearing talked about as it pertains to 
dairy does not take away from the issue of recognizing that the USDA's 
policy was going to cost small dairy farmers $200 million. It was not 
going to leave things the way they were. It was going to take $200 
million from small dairy farmers who are on the verge of collapse or 
death and be put out of business. It retains an extension in a dairy 
compact that was a compact between the consumers and the dairy farmers.
  If we look at the price differentials, we will see that the price of 
milk in the Northeast is five cents cheaper than the national average. 
So that has been a benefit between the farmers and the consumers.
  I am also a member of the House Committee on Agriculture, and we

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work on these issues; and there is no unanimity to these issues, but 
there are always disagreements. I appreciate the ranking member of the 
Committee on Appropriations and the concerns that he shares, because 
some of us look at this glass of milk as half full rather than half 
empty.
  I would also like to focus on the teachers, the teacher training, the 
smaller classrooms, more discipline, higher test scores. We are talking 
about 50,000 more police officers, safer schools, more protection in 
our community. We are looking at veterans' health care. And we are 
talking about corrections in the balanced budget amendment that 
impacted on hospitals and home health agencies.
  So there are many things that I think that when we look at that we 
could be in opposition towards. And, believe me, there are many things 
that I would rewrite. But, as I have learned in this process, we will 
have an opportunity in the future to change those things, to fight for 
those things, and another day will be in front of us.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume for 
the observation that this has been a debate about the continuing 
resolution rule, and I think it has been properly described.
  I think it is a worthy rule. We all know we have to have the 
continuing resolution. We have provided for contingencies as this, as 
has been explained by the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Moakley) 
and myself. No matter how the Members feel about individual pieces of 
the appropriations process, I do urge their consideration and in a 
favorable way for this continuing resolution, which is necessary for us 
to get on with our business and the rest of the day's work.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and I move the 
previous question on the resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. LaTourette). The question is on ordering 
the previous question.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I object to the vote on the ground that a 
quorum is not present and make the point of order that a quorum is not 
present.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Evidently a quorum is not present.
  The Sergeant at Arms will notify absent Members.
  This will be a 15-minute vote followed by a possible 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 375, 
nays 45, not voting 13, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 599]

                               YEAS--375

     Abercrombie
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Andrews
     Archer
     Armey
     Bachus
     Baker
     Baldacci
     Baldwin
     Ballenger
     Barcia
     Barr
     Barrett (NE)
     Barrett (WI)
     Bartlett
     Barton
     Bass
     Bateman
     Bentsen
     Bereuter
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop
     Blagojevich
     Bliley
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bono
     Borski
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (FL)
     Bryant
     Burr
     Burton
     Buyer
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canady
     Cannon
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chambliss
     Chenoweth-Hage
     Clay
     Clayton
     Clement
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Coburn
     Collins
     Combest
     Cook
     Cooksey
     Costello
     Cox
     Coyne
     Cramer
     Crane
     Crowley
     Cubin
     Cummings
     Cunningham
     Danner
     Davis (FL)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (VA)
     Deal
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     DeLay
     DeMint
     Deutsch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dickey
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Dixon
     Dooley
     Doolittle
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Edwards
     Ehlers
     Ehrlich
     Emerson
     Engel
     English
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Everett
     Ewing
     Farr
     Fletcher
     Foley
     Ford
     Fossella
     Fowler
     Frank (MA)
     Frelinghuysen
     Frost
     Gallegly
     Ganske
     Gejdenson
     Gekas
     Gephardt
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Gonzalez
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Goodling
     Gordon
     Goss
     Graham
     Granger
     Green (TX)
     Green (WI)
     Greenwood
     Gutknecht
     Hall (OH)
     Hall (TX)
     Hansen
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Herger
     Hill (MT)
     Hilleary
     Hilliard
     Hinojosa
     Hobson
     Hoeffel
     Holden
     Holt
     Hooley
     Horn
     Hostettler
     Houghton
     Hoyer
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Hutchinson
     Hyde
     Isakson
     Istook
     Jackson (IL)
     Jefferson
     Jenkins
     John
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Jones (OH)
     Kaptur
     Kasich
     Kelly
     Kilpatrick
     Kind (WI)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kleczka
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Kuykendall
     LaFalce
     LaHood
     Lampson
     Lantos
     Largent
     Larson
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Lazio
     Leach
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Lofgren
     Lowey
     Lucas (KY)
     Lucas (OK)
     Maloney (NY)
     Manzullo
     Markey
     Martinez
     Mascara
     Matsui
     McCarthy (MO)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McCrery
     McGovern
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Menendez
     Metcalf
     Mica
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (FL)
     Miller, Gary
     Mink
     Moakley
     Moore
     Moran (KS)
     Moran (VA)
     Morella
     Murtha
     Myrick
     Nadler
     Neal
     Nethercutt
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Ose
     Owens
     Oxley
     Packard
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Paul
     Payne
     Pease
     Pelosi
     Peterson (MN)
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     Phelps
     Pickering
     Pickett
     Pitts
     Pombo
     Pomeroy
     Porter
     Portman
     Price (NC)
     Pryce (OH)
     Quinn
     Radanovich
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Reyes
     Reynolds
     Riley
     Rivers
     Rodriguez
     Roemer
     Rogan
     Rogers
     Rohrabacher
     Rothman
     Roukema
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Rush
     Ryan (WI)
     Ryun (KS)
     Sabo
     Salmon
     Sanchez
     Sanders
     Sandlin
     Sanford
     Sawyer
     Saxton
     Schaffer
     Schakowsky
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Sherman
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sisisky
     Skeen
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Souder
     Spence
     Spratt
     Stearns
     Stenholm
     Stump
     Stupak
     Sununu
     Sweeney
     Talent
     Tancredo
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Tauzin
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thomas
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thornberry
     Thune
     Tiahrt
     Tierney
     Toomey
     Towns
     Traficant
     Turner
     Udall (CO)
     Upton
     Vento
     Visclosky
     Vitter
     Walden
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Watkins
     Watt (NC)
     Watts (OK)
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson
     Wolf
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                                NAYS--45

     Baird
     Becerra
     Blumenauer
     Bonior
     Brown (OH)
     Carson
     Condit
     DeFazio
     Doggett
     Evans
     Filner
     Forbes
     Gutierrez
     Hill (IN)
     Hinchey
     Inslee
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Kanjorski
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Klink
     Kucinich
     Lee
     Lewis (GA)
     Luther
     Maloney (CT)
     McDermott
     Miller, George
     Minge
     Mollohan
     Napolitano
     Pastor
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Scott
     Shows
     Stabenow
     Stark
     Strickland
     Taylor (MS)
     Thurman
     Udall (NM)
     Velazquez
     Waters
     Wise

                             NOT VOTING--13

     Ackerman
     Capps
     Conyers
     Dunn
     Fattah
     Franks (NJ)
     Hoekstra
     McIntosh
     Meehan
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Scarborough
     Wexler
     Weygand

                              {time}  1129

  Mr. Inslee changed his vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  Ms. McCARTHY of Missouri, Mr. GEJDENSON, Ms. DeLAURO, Mr. WAXMAN, and 
Mr. RUSH changed their vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So the previous question was ordered.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


           Motion to Reconsider the Vote Offered by Mr. Obey

  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I move to reconsider the vote just taken.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (LaTourette). Did the gentleman from 
Wisconsin support the previous question?
  Mr. OBEY. Yes, I did.


                  Motion to Table Offered by Mr. Goss

  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I move to lay on the table the motion to 
reconsider.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the 
gentleman from Florida (Mr. Goss) to lay on the table the motion to 
reconsider the vote offered by the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey).
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.


                             Recorded Vote

  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 316, 
noes 101, not voting 16, as follows:

[[Page H12736]]

                             [Roll No. 600]

                               YEAS--316

     Abercrombie
     Aderholt
     Archer
     Armey
     Bachus
     Baird
     Baker
     Baldacci
     Ballenger
     Barcia
     Barr
     Barrett (NE)
     Bartlett
     Barton
     Bass
     Bateman
     Bereuter
     Berkley
     Berman
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop
     Blagojevich
     Bliley
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bono
     Borski
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Bryant
     Burr
     Burton
     Buyer
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canady
     Cannon
     Cardin
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chambliss
     Clay
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Coburn
     Collins
     Combest
     Cook
     Cooksey
     Cox
     Cramer
     Crane
     Crowley
     Cubin
     Cummings
     Cunningham
     Danner
     Davis (FL)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (VA)
     Deal
     DeFazio
     Delahunt
     DeLay
     DeMint
     Deutsch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dickey
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Dixon
     Doggett
     Dooley
     Doolittle
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Ehlers
     Ehrlich
     Emerson
     Engel
     English
     Eshoo
     Everett
     Ewing
     Farr
     Fletcher
     Foley
     Fossella
     Fowler
     Frank (MA)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Ganske
     Gekas
     Gephardt
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Gonzalez
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Goodling
     Goss
     Graham
     Granger
     Greenwood
     Gutierrez
     Hall (OH)
     Hall (TX)
     Hansen
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Herger
     Hill (MT)
     Hilleary
     Hilliard
     Hinojosa
     Hobson
     Holden
     Horn
     Hostettler
     Houghton
     Hoyer
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Hutchinson
     Hyde
     Isakson
     Istook
     Jackson (IL)
     Jefferson
     Jenkins
     John
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Jones (OH)
     Kaptur
     Kasich
     Kelly
     Kilpatrick
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Klink
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Kuykendall
     LaFalce
     LaHood
     Lampson
     Largent
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Lazio
     Leach
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Lofgren
     Lowey
     Lucas (KY)
     Lucas (OK)
     Maloney (NY)
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McCrery
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinney
     Meeks (NY)
     Menendez
     Metcalf
     Mica
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (FL)
     Miller, Gary
     Mink
     Moore
     Moran (KS)
     Moran (VA)
     Morella
     Murtha
     Myrick
     Nadler
     Neal
     Nethercutt
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Ortiz
     Ose
     Oxley
     Packard
     Pastor
     Paul
     Pease
     Pelosi
     Peterson (PA)
     Phelps
     Pickering
     Pickett
     Pitts
     Pombo
     Porter
     Portman
     Price (NC)
     Pryce (OH)
     Quinn
     Radanovich
     Ramstad
     Rangel
     Regula
     Reyes
     Reynolds
     Riley
     Rodriguez
     Roemer
     Rogan
     Rogers
     Rohrabacher
     Roukema
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Rush
     Ryun (KS)
     Sabo
     Salmon
     Sanders
     Sandlin
     Sanford
     Sawyer
     Saxton
     Schaffer
     Schakowsky
     Serrano
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Sherman
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shows
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sisisky
     Skeen
     Skelton
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Souder
     Spence
     Stearns
     Stump
     Stupak
     Sununu
     Sweeney
     Talent
     Tancredo
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Tauzin
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thomas
     Thompson (MS)
     Thornberry
     Thune
     Thurman
     Tiahrt
     Toomey
     Towns
     Traficant
     Turner
     Upton
     Vento
     Vitter
     Walden
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Watkins
     Watts (OK)
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson
     Wolf
     Wynn
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                               NAYS--101

     Allen
     Andrews
     Baldwin
     Barrett (WI)
     Becerra
     Bentsen
     Berry
     Blumenauer
     Bonior
     Brown (FL)
     Brown (OH)
     Capuano
     Carson
     Clayton
     Clement
     Condit
     Costello
     Coyne
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Etheridge
     Evans
     Fattah
     Filner
     Forbes
     Ford
     Frost
     Gejdenson
     Gordon
     Green (TX)
     Green (WI)
     Gutknecht
     Hastings (FL)
     Hill (IN)
     Hinchey
     Hoeffel
     Holt
     Hooley
     Inslee
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kanjorski
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kind (WI)
     Kucinich
     Lantos
     Larson
     Lee
     Lewis (GA)
     Luther
     Maloney (CT)
     Manzullo
     Markey
     Martinez
     Mascara
     McCarthy (MO)
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNulty
     Meek (FL)
     Miller, George
     Minge
     Moakley
     Mollohan
     Napolitano
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Petri
     Pomeroy
     Rahall
     Rivers
     Rothman
     Ryan (WI)
     Sanchez
     Scott
     Sensenbrenner
     Slaughter
     Spratt
     Stabenow
     Stark
     Stenholm
     Taylor (MS)
     Thompson (CA)
     Tierney
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Waters
     Watt (NC)
     Wise
     Woolsey
     Wu

                             NOT VOTING--16

     Ackerman
     Capps
     Chenoweth-Hage
     Conyers
     Dunn
     Franks (NJ)
     Hoekstra
     Kleczka
     McIntosh
     Meehan
     Peterson (MN)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Scarborough
     Strickland
     Wexler
     Weygand

                              {time}  1139

  Messrs. HOLT, OBERSTAR, and GUTKNECHT changed their vote from ``aye'' 
to ``no.''
  Messrs. HERGER, DICKS, HALL of Ohio, and BOYD, and Mrs. MYRICK, Ms. 
BERKLEY, and Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD changed their vote from ``no'' to 
``aye.''
  So the motion to table the motion to reconsider was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the resolution.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.


                             Recorded Vote

  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 352, 
noes 63, not voting 18, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 601]

                               AYES--352

     Abercrombie
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Andrews
     Archer
     Armey
     Bachus
     Baird
     Baker
     Baldacci
     Ballenger
     Barcia
     Barr
     Barrett (NE)
     Bartlett
     Bass
     Bateman
     Bentsen
     Bereuter
     Berkley
     Berry
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop
     Blagojevich
     Bliley
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bonior
     Bono
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (FL)
     Bryant
     Burr
     Burton
     Buyer
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canady
     Cannon
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Carson
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chambliss
     Chenoweth-Hage
     Clay
     Clayton
     Clement
     Coble
     Coburn
     Collins
     Combest
     Cook
     Cooksey
     Cox
     Cramer
     Crane
     Cubin
     Cummings
     Cunningham
     Danner
     Davis (FL)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (VA)
     Deal
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DeLay
     DeMint
     Deutsch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dickey
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Dixon
     Dooley
     Doolittle
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Edwards
     Ehlers
     Ehrlich
     Emerson
     Engel
     English
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Evans
     Everett
     Ewing
     Farr
     Fletcher
     Foley
     Ford
     Fossella
     Fowler
     Frank (MA)
     Frelinghuysen
     Frost
     Gallegly
     Ganske
     Gejdenson
     Gephardt
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Gonzalez
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Goodling
     Gordon
     Goss
     Graham
     Granger
     Green (TX)
     Greenwood
     Hall (OH)
     Hall (TX)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Herger
     Hill (MT)
     Hilleary
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Holden
     Horn
     Hostettler
     Houghton
     Hoyer
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Hutchinson
     Hyde
     Isakson
     Istook
     Jackson (IL)
     Jefferson
     Jenkins
     John
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Jones (OH)
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kasich
     Kelly
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kleczka
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Kuykendall
     LaFalce
     LaHood
     Lampson
     Lantos
     Largent
     Larson
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Lazio
     Leach
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (GA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Lofgren
     Lucas (KY)
     Lucas (OK)
     Luther
     Maloney (NY)
     Markey
     Martinez
     Mascara
     Matsui
     McCarthy (MO)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McCrery
     McGovern
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meek (FL)
     Menendez
     Metcalf
     Mica
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (FL)
     Miller, Gary
     Mink
     Moakley
     Moran (KS)
     Moran (VA)
     Morella
     Murtha
     Myrick
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nethercutt
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Ose
     Oxley
     Packard
     Pastor
     Paul
     Pease
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     Phelps
     Pickering
     Pickett
     Pitts
     Pombo
     Pomeroy
     Porter
     Portman
     Price (NC)
     Pryce (OH)
     Quinn
     Radanovich
     Ramstad
     Rangel
     Regula
     Reyes
     Reynolds
     Rivers
     Rodriguez
     Roemer
     Rogan
     Rogers
     Rohrabacher
     Rothman
     Roukema
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Rush
     Ryun (KS)
     Sabo
     Salmon
     Sanders
     Sandlin
     Sanford
     Sawyer
     Saxton
     Schaffer
     Schakowsky
     Scott
     Serrano
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Sherman
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shows
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sisisky
     Skeen
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Souder
     Spence
     Spratt
     Stabenow
     Stearns
     Strickland
     Stump
     Sununu
     Sweeney
     Talent
     Tancredo
     Tanner
     Tauscher

[[Page H12737]]


     Tauzin
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thomas
     Thompson (CA)
     Thornberry
     Thune
     Thurman
     Tiahrt
     Toomey
     Towns
     Traficant
     Turner
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Upton
     Vento
     Vitter
     Walden
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Watkins
     Watt (NC)
     Watts (OK)
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson
     Wolf
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                                NOES--63

     Baldwin
     Barrett (WI)
     Becerra
     Blumenauer
     Borski
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (OH)
     Clyburn
     Condit
     Costello
     Coyne
     Crowley
     DeFazio
     Delahunt
     Doggett
     Fattah
     Filner
     Forbes
     Green (WI)
     Gutierrez
     Gutknecht
     Hastings (FL)
     Hill (IN)
     Hilliard
     Hoeffel
     Holt
     Hooley
     Inslee
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kennedy
     Kind (WI)
     Klink
     Kucinich
     Lee
     Maloney (CT)
     Manzullo
     McDermott
     Meeks (NY)
     Miller, George
     Minge
     Mollohan
     Oberstar
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peterson (MN)
     Rahall
     Ryan (WI)
     Sanchez
     Sensenbrenner
     Stark
     Stenholm
     Stupak
     Taylor (MS)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Waters
     Wise

                             NOT VOTING--18

     Ackerman
     Barton
     Berman
     Capps
     Conyers
     Dunn
     Franks (NJ)
     Gekas
     Hansen
     Lowey
     McIntosh
     Meehan
     Moore
     Riley
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Scarborough
     Wexler
     Weygand

                              {time}  1148

  Ms. McCARTHY of Missouri, and Messrs. OBEY, LUCAS of Kentucky and 
PETRI changed their vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the resolution was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                       Motion Offered by Mr. Obey

  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I move to reconsider the vote just taken.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. LaTourette). Did the gentleman vote in 
favor of the resolution?
  Mr. OBEY. Yes, I did.


                  Motion to Table Offered by Mr. Goss

  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I move to lay on the table the motion to 
reconsider.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the 
gentleman from Florida (Mr. Goss) to lay on the table the motion to 
reconsider the vote offered by the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey).
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.


                             Recorded Vote

  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 294, 
noes 123, not voting 16, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 602]

                               AYES--294

     Abercrombie
     Aderholt
     Archer
     Armey
     Bachus
     Baird
     Baker
     Ballenger
     Barcia
     Barr
     Barrett (NE)
     Bartlett
     Barton
     Bass
     Bateman
     Bereuter
     Berkley
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop
     Blagojevich
     Bliley
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bono
     Borski
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Bryant
     Burr
     Burton
     Buyer
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canady
     Cannon
     Cardin
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chambliss
     Chenoweth-Hage
     Clayton
     Clement
     Coble
     Coburn
     Collins
     Combest
     Cook
     Cooksey
     Cox
     Cramer
     Crane
     Cubin
     Cummings
     Cunningham
     Davis (FL)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (VA)
     Deal
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLay
     DeMint
     Deutsch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dickey
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Dixon
     Doolittle
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Ehlers
     Ehrlich
     Emerson
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Everett
     Ewing
     Fattah
     Fletcher
     Foley
     Ford
     Fossella
     Fowler
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Ganske
     Gephardt
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Goodling
     Goss
     Graham
     Granger
     Greenwood
     Hall (OH)
     Hall (TX)
     Hansen
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Herger
     Hill (MT)
     Hilleary
     Hilliard
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Holden
     Holt
     Horn
     Hostettler
     Houghton
     Hoyer
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Hutchinson
     Hyde
     Isakson
     Istook
     Jackson (IL)
     Jenkins
     John
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (OH)
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kasich
     Kelly
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Klink
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Kuykendall
     LaFalce
     LaHood
     Lantos
     Largent
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Lazio
     Leach
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Lowey
     Lucas (KY)
     Lucas (OK)
     Maloney (NY)
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McCrery
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinney
     Meek (FL)
     Menendez
     Metcalf
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller, Gary
     Mink
     Moore
     Moran (KS)
     Moran (VA)
     Morella
     Murtha
     Myrick
     Nethercutt
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Ose
     Oxley
     Packard
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Paul
     Payne
     Pease
     Peterson (PA)
     Phelps
     Pickering
     Pickett
     Pitts
     Pombo
     Pomeroy
     Porter
     Portman
     Price (NC)
     Pryce (OH)
     Quinn
     Radanovich
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Reynolds
     Roemer
     Rogan
     Rogers
     Rohrabacher
     Roukema
     Royce
     Rush
     Ryun (KS)
     Sabo
     Salmon
     Sanders
     Sanford
     Sawyer
     Saxton
     Schaffer
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Sherman
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sisisky
     Skeen
     Skelton
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Souder
     Spence
     Stabenow
     Stearns
     Strickland
     Stump
     Sununu
     Sweeney
     Talent
     Tancredo
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Tauzin
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thomas
     Thompson (CA)
     Thornberry
     Thune
     Thurman
     Tiahrt
     Toomey
     Traficant
     Turner
     Udall (CO)
     Upton
     Vento
     Vitter
     Walden
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Watkins
     Watts (OK)
     Weiner
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson
     Wolf
     Wynn
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                               NOES--123

     Allen
     Andrews
     Baldacci
     Baldwin
     Barrett (WI)
     Becerra
     Bentsen
     Berman
     Berry
     Blumenauer
     Bonior
     Brown (FL)
     Brown (OH)
     Capuano
     Carson
     Clyburn
     Condit
     Costello
     Coyne
     Crowley
     Danner
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Doggett
     Dooley
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Etheridge
     Evans
     Farr
     Filner
     Forbes
     Frank (MA)
     Frost
     Gejdenson
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green (TX)
     Green (WI)
     Gutierrez
     Gutknecht
     Hill (IN)
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hoeffel
     Hooley
     Inslee
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     Kind (WI)
     Kleczka
     Kucinich
     Lampson
     Larson
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lofgren
     Luther
     Maloney (CT)
     Manzullo
     Markey
     Martinez
     Mascara
     McCarthy (MO)
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNulty
     Meeks (NY)
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller, George
     Minge
     Moakley
     Mollohan
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pelosi
     Peterson (MN)
     Petri
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Rivers
     Rodriguez
     Rothman
     Roybal-Allard
     Ryan (WI)
     Sanchez
     Sandlin
     Schakowsky
     Scott
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Shows
     Slaughter
     Spratt
     Stark
     Stenholm
     Stupak
     Taylor (MS)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Towns
     Udall (NM)
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Waters
     Watt (NC)
     Waxman
     Wise
     Woolsey
     Wu

                             NOT VOTING--16

     Ackerman
     Capps
     Clay
     Conyers
     Dunn
     English
     Franks (NJ)
     Gekas
     Jones (NC)
     McIntosh
     Meehan
     Riley
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Scarborough
     Wexler
     Weygand

                              {time}  1157

  Mr. WAXMAN changed his vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  So the motion to table the motion to reconsider was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.

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