[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 41 (Wednesday, April 5, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D317-D318]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Bills Introduced: 18 public bills, H.R. 4180-4197; and 5 resolutions, 
H. Con. Res. 298-299 and H. Res. 461-463, were introduced. 
                                                         Pages H1851-52
Reports Filed: Reports were filed today as follows:
  Supplemental report on H.R. 1776, to expand homeownership in the 
United States (H. Rept. 106-553 Part 2); and
  H. Res. 460, providing for consideration of H.R. 1776, to expand 
homeownership in the United States (H. Rept. 106-562).
Page H1851
Speaker Pro Tempore: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he 
designated Representative Gillmor to act as Speaker pro tempore for 
today.
  Page H1767
Guest Chaplain: The prayer was offered by the Rev. Jim Fisher, 
Chaplain, United States Coast Guard of Washington, D.C.
  Page H1767
Sequoia Ecosystem and Recreation Preserve Act: Agreed that 
Representative George Miller of California be hereafter considered as 
the first sponsor of H.R. 2077, a bill originally introduced by the 
late Honorable George Brown of California, for the purposes of adding 
cosponsors and requesting reprints.
  Page H1767
Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act: The House passed H.R. 3660, to amend 
title 18, United States Code, to ban partial-birth abortions by a yea 
and nay vote of 287 yeas to 141 nays, Roll No. 104.
  Pages H1779-H1801
  Rejected the Frank of Massachusetts motion to recommit the bill to 
the Committee on the Judiciary with instructions to report it back with 
an amendment that exempts a partial-birth abortion to avert serious 
adverse longterm physical health consequences by a yea and nay vote of 
140 yeas to 289 nays, Roll No. 103.
Pages H1799-H1801
  H. Res. 457, the rule that provided for consideration of the bill was 
agreed to by a yea and nay vote of 244 yeas to 179 nays, Roll No. 102. 
                                                         Pages H1771-79
Committee on Banking and Financial Services: The Committee on Banking 
and Financial Services received permission to file a supplemental 
report on H.R. 1776, American Homeownership and Economic Opportunity 
Act.
  Page H1801

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Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Programs Improvements Act: The 
House passed H.R. 3671, to amend the Acts popularly known as the 
Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act and the Dingell-Johnson 
Sport Fish Restoration Act to enhance the funds available for grants to 
States for fish and wildlife conservation projects and increase 
opportunities for recreational hunting, bow hunting, trapping, archery, 
and fishing, by eliminating opportunities for waste, fraud, abuse, 
maladministration, and unauthorized expenditures for administration and 
execution of those Acts by a yea and nay vote of 423 yeas to 2 nays, 
Roll No. 105.
  Pages H1806-21
  Agreed to the Committee on Resources amendment in the nature of a 
substitute made in order by the rule.
Pages H1815-20
Agreed to:
  Young of Alaska amendment that increases the cap on the amounts 
authorized in the bill for the annual Set-Asides for Administration and 
makes technical changes;
Page H1818
  Udall of Colorado amendment that requires an implementation report on 
the Act from the Secretary of the Interior; and
Page H1819
  Traficant amendment that requires compliance with the Buy American 
Act.
Pages H1819-20
  H. Res. 455, the rule that provided for consideration of the bill was 
agreed to by a voice vote.
Pages H1801-06
Presidential Message--Transportation of Hazardous Materials: Read a 
message from the President wherein he transmitted the Department of 
Transportation biennial report on the transportation of hazardous 
materials for Calendar Years 1996-1997--referred to the Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure.
  Page H1821
Quorum Calls--Votes: Four yea and nay votes developed during the 
proceedings of the House today and appear on pages H1778-79, H1800-01, 
H1801, and H1820-21. There were no quorum calls.
Adjournment: The House met at 10:00 a.m. and adjourned at 9:40 p.m.