[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 84 (Wednesday, June 28, 2000)]
[House]
[Pages H5300-H5303]
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                              {time}  1030
     PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 4680, MEDICARE RX 2000 ACT

  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I call 
up House Resolution 539 and ask for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                              H. Res. 539

       Resolved, That upon the adoption of this resolution it 
     shall be in order, without intervention of any point of 
     order, to consider in the House the bill (H.R. 4680) to amend 
     title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a 
     voluntary program for prescription drug coverage under the 
     Medicare Program, to modernize the Medicare Program, and for 
     other purposes. The bill shall be considered as read for 
     amendment. The amendment recommended by the Committee on Ways 
     and Means now printed in the bill, modified by the amendment 
     printed in the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying 
     this resolution, shall be considered as adopted. The previous 
     question shall be considered as ordered on the bill, as 
     amended, to final passage without intervening motion except: 
     (1) two hours of debate on the bill, as amended, equally 
     divided among and controlled by the chairmen and ranking 
     minority members of the Committee on Ways and Means and the 
     Committee on Commerce; and (2) one motion to recommit with or 
     without instructions.
       Sec. 2. During consideration of H.R. 4680, notwithstanding 
     the operation of the previous question, the Chair may 
     postpone further consideration of the bill until a time 
     designated by the Speaker.
       Sec. 3. It shall be in order at any time on or before the 
     legislative day of Friday, June 30, 2000, for the Speaker to 
     entertain motions to suspend the rules with respect to the 
     following measures:
       (1) the bill (H.R. 3240) to amend the Federal Food, Drug, 
     and Cosmetic Act to clarify certain responsibilities of the 
     Food and Drug Administration with respect to the importation 
     of drugs into the United States; and
       (2) the resolution (H. Res. 535) expressing the sense of 
     the House of Representatives concerning use of additional 
     projected surplus funds to supplement Medicare funding, 
     previously reduced under the Balanced Budget Act of 1997.


                    Unfunded Mandates Point of Order

  Mr. STENHOLM. Mr. Speaker, I make a point of order against 
consideration of the resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. LaTourette). The gentleman will state 
his point of order.
  Mr. STENHOLM. Mr. Speaker, House Resolution 539 waives all points of 
order against consideration of H.R. 4680, including points of order 
against provisions of the House Rules pertaining to intergovernmental 
mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act.
  Mr. Speaker, the offending language in the resolution is ``without 
intervention of any point of order.'' Included in that waiver are 
points of order that would possibly lie against consideration of H.R. 
4680.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Texas (Mr. Stenholm)

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makes a point of order that the resolution violates section 426(a) of 
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
  According to section 426(b)(2) of the Act, the gentleman must specify 
precise language in the resolution that has that effect. Having met his 
threshold burden to identify the specific language of the resolution 
under section 426(b)(2), the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Stenholm) and a 
Member opposed each will control 10 minutes of debate on the question 
of consideration under section 426(b)(4).
  Following the debate, the Chair will put the question of 
consideration, to wit: ``Will the House now consider the resolution?''
  The gentleman from Texas (Mr. Stenholm) is recognized for 10 minutes.
  Mr. STENHOLM. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  I would point out, Mr. Speaker, that the bill contains a number of 
preemptions of State law that would be intergovernmental mandates as 
defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act. CBO cannot estimate the 
cost of a preemption of State taxing authority because of uncertainties 
about market changes.
  The bill also contains a private sector mandate on Medigap insurers 
that would bar them from providing coverage of prescription drug 
expenses for certain individuals. But CBO estimates that its cost would 
not exceed the threshold specified.
  Mr. Speaker, we have spent a lot of time in this body over the last 
several years discussing unfunded mandates; and there has been very 
strong bipartisan acknowledgment and support that the Federal 
Government, the United States Congress in particular, should pass no 
additional legislation that causes States and/or private businesses to 
incur cost without at least conferring with them and getting their 
acquiescence.
  This bill, developed somewhere in the middle of the night, no real 
bipartisan hearings, no discussions regarding the question of the point 
of order that I bring up at this moment, no one has had an 
acknowledgment of what do we do about these unfunded mandates. It seems 
that this bill has been agreed to and that unfunded mandates on this 
particular bill are okay.
  I would hope that we could have some consistency in our opinions 
regarding legislation and again would point out the number of 
preemptions that are in this legislation.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the point of order, 
and I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. STENHOLM. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Frank).
  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, we all understand electoral 
pressures. None of us parachuted in here without getting votes. But I 
have never seen people react so badly to electoral pressures as we are 
now seeing on the part of the majority. The legislative process is 
becoming a total shambles.
  Last night, at midnight, we debated on suspension of the rules, 
without any chance of amendment, on important campaign reform. It was 
one where there were constitutional objections. The majority whip said 
it was unconstitutional. Unfortunately, he must have got stuck in the 
elevator and could not be here to talk about it.
  Now we have a complex bill addressing one of the most important 
problems in this country, that of older people who cannot afford to pay 
for their prescription drugs; and, once again, we are dealing with a 
travesty of the legislative process.
  The Committee on Rules met. First of all, we do major campaign reform 
at midnight. Then they get to the Committee on Rules and the Committee 
on Rules waives points of order. On the one hand, of course, it could 
not possibly take any of the increased revenues that are available to 
try to help middle income, older people. On the other hand, the 
unfunded mandate issue, to which Members on the other side 
intermittently profess great support, suddenly goes out the window.
  Why? Because a pollster said, you guys better move in a hurry. This 
is the most policy driven, ill-advised overly hasty piece of 
legislation on a major issue I have ever seen.
  I do not know, because I have been skeptical of some of the unfunded 
mandate talk, whether there is a problem or not. I do know that because 
in carrying out their pollsters instructions to move quickly so they 
seem to be doing something, they did not allow adequate consideration 
of this.
  Most of their own Members do not know, Mr. Speaker, what the unfunded 
mandates are or are not. Perhaps we should use some of the extra 
revenue the Federal Government is getting to alleviate this impact on 
the States. They will never know. They will just vote yes because their 
pollster said, hey, the House may be at stake.
  So a month ago the majority obediently votes against a campaign 
reform bill which last night the majority of them obediently voted for, 
one of the great convergences in history.
  Today the party that says, leave the Government out of it, the 
private sector will do it, decides it better try to show that it does 
think a Government response is there.
  Now, I will once again congratulate the majority on its flexibility. 
This is an expansion of the Federal Government's role. But they have 
done it too hastily, maybe because the whole notion of expanding the 
Government's role so bothers Members of the majority that they have to 
get it over with in a hurry, they cannot stand to think about it. But 
when they do it this hastily, when they do not allow adequate 
consideration in the Committee on Ways and Means, when they rush this 
thing through the Committee on Rules, when they do not allow the other 
side, ourselves, give an alternative that is well thought out, they 
make mistakes.
  The gentleman from Texas (Mr. Stenholm) has been a model of 
consistency and fiscal integrity; and when he invokes a point of order 
against unfunded mandates, he is speaking from a demonstrated history 
of this House of concern.
  Their legislative procedure has made a travesty of the House and of 
their own professed principles.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I continue to reserve the balance of my time, 
and I want to be sure I have the right to close.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Florida (Mr. Goss) has 
the right to close.
  Mr. STENHOLM. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I think there is very strong agreement on both sides of 
the aisle that we need to deal with the pharmaceutical cost issue.
  I know in my own district at home that I have hundreds, if not 
thousands, of individuals who have to choose between the cost of their 
medicine and food every month. And I know that folks on both sides of 
the aisle agree to that.
  What bothers me about the bill that is being rushed to the floor and 
those of us on this side who would have had some differing opinions, or 
at least having a substitute, or at least having the opportunity to 
amend in some way being denied.
  Okay, I understand the rule of the majority. The majority can do 
anything that they wish to do, and they are doing it. But by the same 
token, I would hope that there would be large numbers of Members on the 
other side of the aisle that would have just a tinge of conscience in 
following their leadership down a path in which, when we ask the 
question, what is this plan that we will vote on later today going to 
cost, I do not know. That is up to the private sector to determine.
  That is where the unfunded mandates in this point of order come from. 
If my colleagues read carefully the legislation, they will find that 
there are mandates on the private sector and mandates on local and 
State government that I do not think most of my colleagues want to vote 
for.
  Most of them are like most of us, we have not seen in detail this 
bill that we are considering. We are rushing it to the floor because 
somebody thinks it is a good idea and everybody on that side suggests 
that we should not be allowed to even amend it on this floor.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I continue to reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. STENHOLM. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Iowa (Mr. Ganske).

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  Mr. GANSKE. Mr. Speaker, this will be my only floor statement on the 
rule and the bill. I will vote ``no'' on the rule, ``no'' on the 
Democratic bill, and ``no'' on the GOP bill.
  Why? Number one, regular order has not been followed. The Committee 
on Commerce, which has equal jurisdiction, has held no hearings on the 
bill.

                              {time}  1045

  We certainly held no markups.
  Number two, both parties' plans are fundamentally flawed because of 
adverse risk selection. Read the USA Today lead editorial on both of 
the bills. They are right.
  Number three, I offered four amendments and a substitute at the 
Committee on Rules. No amendments from anyone or substitutes are 
allowed, and that is not right on such an important issue.
  Finally, Mr. Speaker, I hope that we address this issue in a more 
thoughtful way after the July 4 recess. If this rule goes down, it is 
not over for the year. We simply must deal with this later this year.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I continue to reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. STENHOLM. Mr. Speaker, I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Frank).
  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, in the interest of 
bipartisanship and a better debate, I know last night there were 
obviously some constraints which kept some Members of the Republican 
side, including the leadership, from participating in the debate. In 
case the same constraints are applied today, if there are Republican 
Members, particularly in the leadership, who have doubts about this 
bill that they have been asked not to express we are available. If they 
send them to us, we would be glad once again to put them into the 
Record so that there is a fuller debate than apparently otherwise we 
are going to have. We are available for those Republicans suffering 
from that kind of floor censorship to get their message out.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Florida continues to 
reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. STENHOLM. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Rhode Island (Mr. Weygand).
  Mr. WEYGAND. Mr. Speaker, I rise because I am moved by the comments 
of the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Ganske) that indeed what we are looking 
at today is a bill that really does not have a true dollar sign on it. 
When we came before the Committee on Rules last night, many of us were 
talking about making sure that whatever we brought before the House is 
going to be a cost effective, efficient piece of legislation that could 
indeed provide us with a reduction in prescription costs for all 
seniors.
  Indeed, what we have today, unfortunately, is a bill that does not 
have a bottom line to it. In fact, has a very, very expensive way of 
providing for prescription drugs and does not provide us with a basic 
fundamental purpose of what the bill is all about, making sure that all 
seniors are covered in a universal way so that indeed they can have 
reduced costs of their prescription drugs.
  We implore the other side to take into account what the people in 
their districts and our districts are talking about. When people are 
spending $3,000, $4,000, $5,000 a year for prescription drugs, we have 
to have a bill that will clearly address the issue of dollars in a 
reasonable way. We hope that they will listen to us because we are just 
repeating what the people in their districts are talking about.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 30 seconds to the distinguished 
gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn).
  Mr. COBURN. Mr. Speaker, I just want to take 30 seconds to respond to 
the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Frank). There is no one more 
cantankerous or contrary with our leadership than I am, and we have 
never been stifled in our conversation and we have never been limited 
in terms of our ability to express our viewpoint.
  Mr. STENHOLM. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  Mr. Speaker, the point of order is raised on the unfunded mandates. 
Read the bill, my friends on the other side who are about to blindly 
follow their leadership down the path. This is not the way to 
legislate. This is not the way to deal with the question as important 
as the pharmaceutical costs to all Americans is, and it is certainly 
not the way to have an unfunded mandate after spending the hours 
passing bills and doing all of the things and saying we are not going 
to impose costs on State and local government and private business for 
any purpose.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Stenholm) has raised the 
possibility that H.R. 4680 may contain an unfunded mandate. There is a 
provision for that. The provision is to proceed forward with the 
question will the committee now consider the amendment. I would like to 
get to that point so we can get on with the important business of the 
day, which is this legislation.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. LaTourette). The Chair will now put the 
question of consideration.
  The question is, Will the House now consider the resolution?
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the noes appeared to have it.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 224, 
nays 200, not voting 10, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 344]

                               YEAS--224

     Aderholt
     Archer
     Armey
     Bachus
     Baker
     Ballenger
     Barr
     Barrett (NE)
     Bartlett
     Barton
     Bass
     Bateman
     Bereuter
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bliley
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bono
     Brady (TX)
     Bryant
     Burr
     Buyer
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canady
     Cannon
     Cardin
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chambliss
     Chenoweth-Hage
     Coble
     Coburn
     Collins
     Combest
     Cooksey
     Cox
     Crane
     Cubin
     Cunningham
     Davis (VA)
     Deal
     DeLay
     DeMint
     Diaz-Balart
     Dickey
     Doolittle
     Dreier
     Dunn
     Ehlers
     Ehrlich
     Emerson
     English
     Everett
     Ewing
     Fletcher
     Foley
     Fossella
     Fowler
     Frank (MA)
     Franks (NJ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Ganske
     Gekas
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Goodling
     Goss
     Graham
     Granger
     Green (WI)
     Greenwood
     Gutknecht
     Hansen
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Herger
     Hill (MT)
     Hilleary
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Horn
     Hostettler
     Houghton
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Hutchinson
     Isakson
     Istook
     Jenkins
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Kasich
     Kelly
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Kuykendall
     LaHood
     Largent
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Lazio
     Leach
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     LoBiondo
     Lucas (OK)
     Manzullo
     Martinez
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McCrery
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McKeon
     Metcalf
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller, Gary
     Mollohan
     Moran (KS)
     Morella
     Myrick
     Nethercutt
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Ose
     Oxley
     Packard
     Paul
     Pease
     Peterson (MN)
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Pombo
     Portman
     Pryce (OH)
     Quinn
     Radanovich
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Reynolds
     Riley
     Rogan
     Rogers
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roukema
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Ryun (KS)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Saxton
     Scarborough
     Schaffer
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sisisky
     Skeen
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Souder
     Spence
     Stearns
     Stump
     Sununu
     Sweeney
     Talent
     Tancredo
     Tauzin
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thomas
     Thornberry
     Thune
     Tiahrt
     Toomey
     Traficant
     Upton
     Vitter
     Walden
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Watkins
     Watts (OK)
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                               NAYS--200

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Allen
     Andrews
     Baca
     Baird
     Baldacci
     Baldwin
     Barcia
     Barrett (WI)
     Becerra
     Bentsen
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Bishop
     Blagojevich
     Blumenauer
     Bonior
     Borski
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brown (OH)
     Capps
     Capuano
     Carson
     Clay
     Clayton
     Clement
     Clyburn
     Condit
     Conyers
     Costello
     Coyne
     Cramer
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Danner
     Davis (FL)
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Deutsch
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Dixon
     Doggett
     Dooley
     Doyle
     Duncan
     Edwards
     Engel

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     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Evans
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Forbes
     Ford
     Frost
     Gejdenson
     Gephardt
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green (TX)
     Gutierrez
     Hall (OH)
     Hall (TX)
     Hastings (FL)
     Hill (IN)
     Hilliard
     Hinchey
     Hoeffel
     Holden
     Holt
     Hooley
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     John
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones (OH)
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     Kind (WI)
     Kleczka
     Klink
     Kucinich
     LaFalce
     Lampson
     Lantos
     Larson
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Lofgren
     Lowey
     Lucas (KY)
     Luther
     Maloney (CT)
     Maloney (NY)
     Mascara
     McCarthy (MO)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Menendez
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller, George
     Minge
     Mink
     Moakley
     Moore
     Moran (VA)
     Murtha
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Phelps
     Pickett
     Pomeroy
     Price (NC)
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Rivers
     Rodriguez
     Roemer
     Rothman
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Sabo
     Sanchez
     Sanders
     Sandlin
     Sawyer
     Schakowsky
     Serrano
     Sherman
     Shows
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Spratt
     Stabenow
     Stark
     Stenholm
     Stupak
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Taylor (MS)
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thurman
     Tierney
     Towns
     Turner
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Waters
     Watt (NC)
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Wexler
     Weygand
     Wise
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Burton
     Cook
     Hinojosa
     Hyde
     Markey
     McIntosh
     Porter
     Scott
     Strickland
     Vento

                              {time}  1108

  Mrs. CHENOWETH-HAGE, Mrs. CUBIN, and Messrs. WHITFIELD, HOEKSTRA, 
MATSUI and PETERSON of Pennsylvania changed their vote from ``nay'' to 
``yea.''
  So the question of consideration was decided in the affirmative.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall Nos. 343 and 344, I 
was unavoidably detained and therefore unable to be present on the 
House floor during that time. Had I been present, I would have voted 
``no'' on rollcall vote 343 and ``aye'' on rollcall vote 344.


  Motion to Reconsider the Vote: Offered by Mr. Frank of Massachusetts

  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, I move to reconsider the 
vote.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. LaTourette). Did the gentleman from 
Massachusetts vote on the prevailing side?
  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Yes, I did, Mr. Speaker.


                  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 to table 
offered by the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Goss).
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.


                             Recorded Vote

  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 219, 
noes 200, not voting 15, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 345]

                               AYES--219

     Aderholt
     Archer
     Armey
     Bachus
     Baker
     Ballenger
     Barr
     Barrett (NE)
     Bartlett
     Barton
     Bass
     Bateman
     Bereuter
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bliley
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bono
     Brady (TX)
     Bryant
     Burr
     Burton
     Buyer
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canady
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chambliss
     Chenoweth-Hage
     Coble
     Coburn
     Collins
     Combest
     Cooksey
     Cox
     Crane
     Cubin
     Cunningham
     Davis (VA)
     Deal
     DeMint
     Diaz-Balart
     Dickey
     Dicks
     Doolittle
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Ehlers
     Ehrlich
     Emerson
     English
     Everett
     Ewing
     Fletcher
     Foley
     Fossella
     Fowler
     Franks (NJ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Ganske
     Gekas
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Goodling
     Goss
     Graham
     Granger
     Green (WI)
     Greenwood
     Gutknecht
     Hall (TX)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Herger
     Hill (MT)
     Hilleary
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Horn
     Hostettler
     Houghton
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Hutchinson
     Isakson
     Istook
     Jenkins
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Kasich
     Kelly
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Kuykendall
     LaHood
     Lantos
     Largent
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Lazio
     Leach
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     LoBiondo
     Lowey
     Lucas (OK)
     Manzullo
     Martinez
     McCollum
     McCrery
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McKeon
     Metcalf
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller, Gary
     Moran (KS)
     Morella
     Myrick
     Nethercutt
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Ose
     Oxley
     Packard
     Paul
     Pease
     Peterson (MN)
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Pombo
     Portman
     Pryce (OH)
     Quinn
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Reynolds
     Riley
     Rogan
     Rogers
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roukema
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Ryun (KS)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Saxton
     Scarborough
     Schaffer
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Skeen
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Souder
     Spence
     Stearns
     Stump
     Sununu
     Sweeney
     Talent
     Tancredo
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thomas
     Thornberry
     Thune
     Tiahrt
     Toomey
     Traficant
     Upton
     Vitter
     Walden
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Watkins
     Watts (OK)
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                               NOES--200

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Allen
     Andrews
     Baca
     Baird
     Baldacci
     Baldwin
     Barcia
     Barrett (WI)
     Becerra
     Bentsen
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Bishop
     Blagojevich
     Blumenauer
     Bonior
     Borski
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brown (OH)
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Carson
     Clay
     Clayton
     Clement
     Clyburn
     Condit
     Conyers
     Costello
     Coyne
     Cramer
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Danner
     Davis (FL)
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Deutsch
     Dingell
     Dixon
     Doggett
     Dooley
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Evans
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Forbes
     Ford
     Frank (MA)
     Frost
     Gejdenson
     Gephardt
     Gilman
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green (TX)
     Gutierrez
     Hall (OH)
     Hastings (FL)
     Hill (IN)
     Hilliard
     Hinchey
     Hoeffel
     Holden
     Holt
     Hooley
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     John
     Johnson, E.B.
     Jones (OH)
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     Kind (WI)
     Kleczka
     Klink
     Kucinich
     LaFalce
     Lampson
     Larson
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Lofgren
     Lucas (KY)
     Luther
     Maloney (CT)
     Maloney (NY)
     Mascara
     Matsui
     McCarthy (MO)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Menendez
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller, George
     Minge
     Mink
     Moakley
     Mollohan
     Moore
     Moran (VA)
     Murtha
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Ortiz
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Phelps
     Pickett
     Pomeroy
     Price (NC)
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Rivers
     Rodriguez
     Roemer
     Rothman
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Sabo
     Sanchez
     Sanders
     Sandlin
     Sawyer
     Schakowsky
     Serrano
     Sherman
     Shows
     Sisisky
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Spratt
     Stabenow
     Stark
     Stenholm
     Stupak
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Taylor (MS)
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thurman
     Tierney
     Towns
     Turner
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Waters
     Watt (NC)
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Wexler
     Weygand
     Wise
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn

                             NOT VOTING--15

     Cannon
     Cook
     DeLay
     Hansen
     Hinojosa
     Hyde
     Markey
     McIntosh
     Olver
     Porter
     Radanovich
     Scott
     Strickland
     Tauzin
     Vento

                              {time}  1127

  Messrs. STENHOLM, SNYDER, PRICE of North Carolina and Ms. McKINNEY 
changed their vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  Mr. DEAL of Georgia changed his 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.

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