[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 118 (Thursday, September 28, 2000)]
[House]
[Pages H8412-H8416]
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WAIVING POINTS OF ORDER AGAINST CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 4733, ENERGY 
             AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2001

  Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. Madam Speaker, by direction of the 
Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 598 and ask for its 
immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                              H. Res. 598

       Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be 
     in order to consider the conference report to accompany the 
     bill (H.R. 4733) making appropriations for energy and water 
     development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, 
     and for other purposes. All points of order against the 
     conference report and against its consideration are waived. 
     The conference report shall be considered as read.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mrs. Biggert). The gentleman from Washington 
(Mr. Hastings) is recognized for 1 hour.
  Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. Madam Speaker, for the purposes of debate 
only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to the distinguished gentleman 
from Massachusetts (Mr.  Moakley), the ranking minority member of the 
Committee on Rules, pending which I yield myself such time as I may 
consume. During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is 
for the purposes of debate only.
  (Mr. HASTINGS of Washington asked and was given permission to revise 
and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. Madam Speaker, H. Res. 598 is a rule 
providing for the consideration of the conference report to accompany 
H.R. 4733, the Energy and Water Appropriation Act of 2001. The rule 
waives all points of order against the conference report and against 
its consideration and provides that the conference report shall be 
considered as read.
  The conference agreement provides $23.59 billion in new discretionary 
spending authority for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Department 
of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation, the Department of Energy, and 
several independent agencies.
  The bill is $2.3 billion above fiscal year 2000, and $889 million 
above the President's request.
  Most notably, Madam Speaker, as a Member whose district includes the 
most challenging nuclear cleanup project in the Nation, I am pleased 
that the conference report increases the funding for the defense 
environmental management cleanup activities by $6.12 billion, an 
increase of $406 million over last year.
  Specifically, this legislation includes $377 million for the 
critically important Hanford Tank Waste Treatment Facility that is 
located in my district.
  Finally, I would like to point out to my colleagues that this 
conference report also includes an appropriation of $5 million 
dedicated solely to reducing the national debt.
  Madam Speaker, I want to commend the chairman of the Subcommittee on 
Energy and Water Appropriations, the gentleman from California (Mr. 
Packard), and the ranking member, the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. 
Visclosky), for their efforts to defend the House position on a long 
list of important items in this legislation. They have worked long and 
hard to bring this agreement to the House, and accordingly, I urge my 
colleagues to support both the rule and the conference report.
  Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

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  Mr. MOAKLEY. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Hastings), 
my colleague and my dear friend, for yielding me the customary half 
hour.
  Madam Speaker, I would also like to thank the gentleman from Indiana 
(Mr. Visclosky), and the gentleman from California (Mr. Packard) for 
their work on this bill. They really had to juggle a lot of requests 
and a lot of issues. And as a result, this conference report contains 
funding for some very, very good water projects and infrastructure 
projects.
  Unfortunately, Madam Speaker, something happened last night in 
conference that will force me to oppose this rule and oppose it very 
strongly. Despite the fact that many people in the Northeast are 
currently facing what promises to be the worst heating crisis, winter 
heating crisis in two decades, some of my colleagues have decided to 
eliminate the funding in this conference report for Northeast home 
heating oil reserve.
  Madam Speaker, I do not know why my colleagues would want to take 
steps to avoid helping their neighbors, but I do know how bad the 
situation could be in Massachusetts. According to today's Boston Globe, 
the Energy Information Administration announced yesterday that the 
stocks of heating oil shrank by another 300,000 barrels over the last 
week, and what that means, Madam Speaker, is that New England has less 
than one-third of the supply of heating oil that it had last year.
  Madam Speaker, the winter we had last year was terrible, and we did 
not have anywhere near enough home heating oil.
  Madam Speaker, two million households in Massachusetts depend on 
heating oil to warm their homes in the winter. Meanwhile, prices are up 
to about $1.40 a gallon and to give you a sense of perspective, it was 
$1 last winter and 80 cents the winter before. Madam Speaker, let me 
tell my colleagues it gets cold in Massachusetts and these very high 
prices force families to make that horrible choice between heating 
their homes or feeding their children.
  But, Madam Speaker, we can do something about this. We can insist on 
a New England heating oil reserve. We can oppose efforts to stop the 
President from releasing 30 million barrels of oil from the Strategic 
Petroleum Reserve. Now, to hear some of my Republican friends talk, 
this is a violation of a sacred thing to release this oil, but this is 
not the first time this oil has been released from the Strategic 
Petroleum Reserve.
  Madam Speaker, this would be the 11th time that oil has been released 
and every time, Madam Speaker, the release had the blessings of my 
Republican colleagues. But all of a sudden the 11th time it is 
released, it is political, but the other 10 times it was not.
  So contrary to the way it may seem, oil really is not a matter of 
political parties, it is not a matter of competition between one region 
or another. In Massachusetts, heating your home really is not a luxury.
  For many in the Northeast, Madam Speaker, it really could be a matter 
of life and death. So to put people's health and safety at risk for 
partisan gain is absolutely inexcusable. So I urge my colleagues to 
oppose this rule.
  Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. Madam Speaker, I am pleased to yield as 
much time as he may consume to the gentleman from California (Mr. 
Packard), the chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development, who is dealing with this legislation and somebody who is 
working on his last appropriations bill before he retires.
  Mr. PACKARD. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding me the 
time, and I would like to respond to the remarks of the gentleman from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Moakley) concerning Northeast home heating oil 
reserve and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
  I want to correct, what I hope is a misunderstanding. We have never 
had in this bill funding for the Northeast energy oil problem. That 
funding is in the Subcommittee on Interior, not in this bill. So we not 
only did not knock it out, it never was in this bill. There was an 
amendment passed on the floor of the House to do something in this 
area, but that jurisdiction really belongs in the Committee on Interior 
and not in this committee.
  This is to further clarify this whole issue. The House did pass a 
separate freestanding bill, the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, and 
that would have dealt with the Northeast oil issue, but that bill is 
being held up in the Senate by Senator Boxer. And for that reason, it 
has not moved. It is on hold by the Senator.
  The administration claims, however, that as long as the 
appropriations exist, they do not need legislation to release oil from 
the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. In fact, the President announced last 
Friday that he was releasing 30 million barrels from that reserve. 
Clearly, he does not feel that legislation is necessary for this 
purpose.
  Madam Speaker, I do not agree with him, and frankly I do not think 
that is a wise policy, but the fact is that is what he announced. And 
so we did not need to include funding in this bill for that purpose, 
and we did not include it in the bill. It does not belong in our bill. 
It belongs in the Interior Appropriations subcommittee bill. So we have 
not included it.
  Madam Speaker, on the rule itself, however, let me just make a 
comment. I totally support the rule that is before the House. I commend 
the Committee on Rules for providing us with this rule. It should be 
very simple for us to move forward with this conference report under 
the rule, and I hope that the House will unanimously vote for the rule.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Madam Speaker, we had an immigration bill that started out in one 
bill and then it was pulled out, it was put in another bill, and then 
when we passed it on the floor, it was pulled up and put in another 
bill. Is this what is going to happen from the Northeast, it is going 
to go from Interior to Energy and Interior to Energy? There was a vote, 
360 people voted for this Northeast petroleum reserve. It should be in 
the Energy bill. So to have the gentleman say it should not be in the 
Energy bill, I do not know why it should be in Interior and not in 
Energy.
  I think legislation may be necessary to give the President the right, 
because the right the President had to release that oil lapsed last 
month, and I think there is a question of whether he needs the 
authority or not. But regardless of what happens, the Northeast 
petroleum reserve should have been in the Energy bill, unless the 
gentleman can tell me it is absolutely going to be in the Interior 
bill.
  Mr. PACKARD. Madam Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. MOAKLEY. I yield to the gentleman from California.
  Mr. PACKARD. Madam Speaker, all jurisdiction for fossil fuel lies 
within the Subcommittee on Interior, not this subcommittee, 
Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, we have other energy 
issues, but not fossil fuel. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is in the 
Interior jurisdiction.
  I served on that subcommittee when I first went on appropriations, 
and that is where we dealt with it then and that is where it ought to 
be dealt with at this time.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Madam Speaker, reclaiming my time, but the gentleman, I 
am sure, knows it is not going to be dealt with. And we know in the 
past we put amendments in other bills that really did not have the 
jurisdiction and it passed. But I think it is going to get awful cold 
awful quick, and I would hate to be someone who voted against this to 
answer the questions why did not we not act when we had time.
  As I say, go back to the Cubin bill. It goes from one committee to 
the other. Every time it comes up, the committee says no, it is not our 
jurisdiction, it is somebody else's jurisdiction. I think we should 
look at the problem itself and how complex it is and how necessary it 
is that some people have to choose between heating and eating.
  And I do not think we should say it should not be in this bill 
because we have never handled it before. We have done a lot of things 
that we have never done before.

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  And as far as the release of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, I am 
not saying it is in this bill, I am just referring to an action of a 
Member of his party that is trying to stop the release of the 
petroleum. I just want to show that this has been done.
  This will be the 11th time it has been done, and this is the first 
time that anybody accused it of being political.
  Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. Madam Speaker, I have no more requests 
for time.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
the great State of Massachusetts (Mr. Capuano), a colleague of mine 
from Somerville.
  Mr. CAPUANO. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts 
(Mr. Moakley) for yielding me the time.
  Madam Speaker, as I was watching this back in the office and as I was 
reading the contents of the particular bill, I have to tell my 
colleagues I am absolutely shocked. I do not think anyone at home, 
certainly nobody in my district, cares who has what jurisdiction. They 
could care less, they care about one thing, keeping their seniors and 
their kids warm. And for us to sit here and argue about jurisdiction to 
make promises that we may not be able to keep is ridiculous. It is 
patently absurd and unfair.
  I came over today to make sure that the people I represent do not 
care if it is political or not. We are all politicians. We all do 
things for political reasons. Do my colleagues think any senior citizen 
who freezes in the middle of the winter cares about politics? They want 
heat. And for those people who do not have to rely on oil heat like we 
do in the Northeast, mark my words, without question, if we do nothing 
and oil heat price rises, natural gas prices will rise as well.
  There are already supply problems. If we do not do it, people like me 
may start thinking about changing to natural gas. If we do, that puts 
further demand on diminished natural gas supplies. Those prices will be 
right behind us. And I will tell my colleagues, whether it is political 
or not, my hope is that every single politician in any one of us in the 
Frostbelt States makes this an issue, one way or the other; I am for 
it, I am against it.
  I do not think, I have been involved with this since the day I got 
here, I do not think anyone who has argued for or against the Strategic 
Oil Preserve has said this is the only way to do it. We said there are 
a thousand things we can and should be doing and hopefully we will. 
This is one. This is the one that we can do immediately. Most of the 
others will take time.
  For us to sit here and fiddle while the Northeast and the Midwest 
freezes is an insult to the people who have elected us.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Madam Speaker, I would just like to read from the Congressional 
Record of June 27, the Sherwood amendment printed in House Report 106-
701 includes the text of H.R. 2884 as passed the House, includes 
provisions to reauthorize the Strategic Petroleum Reserve through 2003 
and authorizes the Energy Department to buy oil from stripper wells and 
establish a regional home heating oil reserve in the Northeast. Agreed 
on by a record vote of 393-33. Nobody who voted then questioned what 
bill it was going to be put in.
  Madam Speaker, I think we should take the will of the House, and it 
should have been in this report. And I think unless it is in this 
report, the report is flawed.
  Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. Madam Speaker, I yield as much time as he 
may consume to the gentleman from California (Mr. Dreier), the 
distinguished chairman of the Committee on Rules.
  Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, I appreciate my friend from Washington 
(Mr. Hastings) for yielding me the time and thank him for his 
management of this rule.
  We filed this late last night, and I want to rise in strong support 
of it and the underlying conference report. And I want to congratulate 
the retiring distinguished gentleman from California (Mr. Packard), the 
former mayor of Carlsbad, who will go off and be doing all kinds of 
wonderful things as he leaves behind him this great work product.
  I also want to congratulate the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young), 
the distinguished chairman of the Committee on Appropriations.
  And I want to take just a few minutes to talk about a very important 
provision which is in this bill, which I have been working on for a 
number of years. It began in Southern California when the water quality 
authority, a group that came together to address the water challenges 
that we have there, found something called perchlorate in the 
groundwater. And perchlorate is a chemical which unfortunately has 
tremendous negative repercussions getting into the groundwater.
  We worked hard to try and find out exactly what led to the 
perchlorate getting into the groundwater, and they discovered that it 
came from the legal disposal of spent rocket fuel during the military 
buildup during the Cold War during the 1950s and 1960s.
  Many people, when this perchlorate was discovered, began pointing 
fingers and saying that somebody is responsible for this. One of the 
things that we found, Madam Speaker, is that there are many companies 
that were very important to the buildup during the Cold War that are no 
longer in business, and so it was easy to begin pointing fingers. Some 
of us said that we needed to solve the problem, and so that is why, 
when we look at the fact this is a national security issue, yes, it was 
first discovered in Southern California, but this has national 
repercussions.
  It has national repercussions because the gentleman from Texas (Mr. 
Sessions), my friend, has been faced with the same problem.

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  There are people from other States of the Union who have found just 
recently the discovery of perchlorate in the groundwater. So I was very 
pleased that several months ago the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. 
Shuster), the chairman of the Committee on Transportation and 
Infrastructure, and the gentleman from New York (Mr. Boehlert), the 
subcommittee chairman, agreed to put together a hearing which was 
designed to specifically address this question.
  We were able to utilize something I am very proud of, new technology; 
and we had a hearing of the Committee on Transportation and 
Infrastructure, the subcommittee that the gentleman from New York (Mr. 
Boehlert) chairs, which was able to include community activists from 
Southern California, people with the Water Quality Authority, and 
several of my colleagues who in a bipartisan way joined in introducing 
the authorizing legislation, H.R. 910.
  They included the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. Napolitano), the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Martinez) and others, the gentleman from 
California (Mr. George Miller), the gentleman from California (Mr. 
Rogan), who have been very supportive of this effort.
  Well, Madam Speaker, I am pleased that we have been able to include 
in this legislation in this conference report important funding to 
begin this to find a solution to this problem. It is a small amount of 
money. But it is a beginning. Again, it is one of the very serious 
environmental questions that we have.
  So in passage of this conference report, we will in this Congress be 
taking a very bold step towards addressing a major environmental 
concern, not only for Southern California, but for the entire country.
  I want to express my appreciation again to the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Packard). I would especially like to thank the 
gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young), the distinguished chairman of the 
Committee on Appropriations, who has been phenomenal in providing me 
with assistance in dealing with this.
  Also, I want to express my appreciation to Chairman Domenici for his 
work on this and, as I said, the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Chairman 
Shuster) and the gentleman from New York (Chairman Boehlert) for the 
effort that they have put together in helping us deal with an important 
problem that, as I said, impacts, it appears, Southern California right 
now but also the entire Nation.

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  So I urge strong support of this rule and support of the conference 
report.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Madam Speaker, my colleagues may recall that I applauded all that is 
in this bill. I am not taking anything away from my chairman. I think 
he did a masterful job in getting the money he got for that project, 
and it is well needed.
  I am talking about what is not in the bill, and what is not in the 
bill is going to help protect the lives and safety of the people in the 
Northeast. Two years ago, we had an elderly couple freeze to death 
because they did not have money to buy fuel oil, and there was no 
reserve set up. We are trying to build against that so we will not have 
the same thing happen again.
  I think it is very, very small for some people to play petty politics 
with this very, very important issue. Just because it affects the 
Northeast where maybe our Republican candidate is not doing too well 
and he can just ``dis'' it off. But there are human beings up there 
that are fighting for their lives, and probably some may lose their 
lives if the winter is as bad as some people predict.
  Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. 
Frost), the head of the Democratic Caucus.
  Mr. FROST. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding me this 
time.
  Madam Speaker, we ought to be very clear about the game that the 
Republicans are playing right now. On the one hand, they are critical 
of the President for announcing that he is going to release oil from 
the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. In fact, they are even talking about 
filing a lawsuit or perhaps passing legislation to prevent the 
President from releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
  Yet, in this bill, they deleted the authority for the Strategic 
Petroleum Reserve. So on the one hand, they are saying, gee, the 
President does not have the authority. On the other hand, they are 
deleting the authority and not giving it to him. One cannot have it 
both ways.
  Now they try and say, oh, well, it should be in another bill. We know 
that is a ludicrous argument late in the session. This is a bill that 
is moving forward. This is the opportunity to provide the authority to 
release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve so that we can deal 
with home heating oil prices so that we can deal with the price of 
gasoline.
  The facts are very clear. They do not want the President to have that 
authority so then they can say, well, he does not have it. So we are 
going to challenge his action. This is perhaps one of the most cynical 
actions that a legislative majority could possibly take.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Madam Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. FROST. Yes, I am happy to yield to the gentleman from 
Massachusetts.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Madam Speaker, is the gentleman from Texas aware this 
has been done 10 separate and distinct times under Republican 
leadership, and not one word of political chicanery was ever mentioned?
  Mr. FROST. Madam Speaker, I am aware of the history. It just is 
ironic that today one of the committees of this House under the 
leadership of a Republican chairman is criticizing the President for 
exercising this authority while the other Republicans are on the floor 
trying to prevent the President from having the authority.
  Now, I cannot think of anything that is more cynical, any more than a 
legislative body could take to say, gee, he cannot do that, but we are 
sure not going to give him the authority to do it; so maybe then we can 
challenge his right to do it.
  Madam Speaker, this is perhaps one of the worst pieces of energy 
policy that this majority has done in the last 6 years. I conclude my 
remarks. I think it is extraordinary what is happening today.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Madam Speaker, we had some other speakers, but we do not 
seem to have them here; and I guess the gentleman from Washington (Mr. 
Hastings) has no speakers, so I reluctantly yield back the balance of 
my time.


                Announcement By The Speaker Pro Tempore

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mrs. Biggert). The Chair will take this 
opportunity to remind all Members not to wear communicative badges 
while under recognition.
  Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time 
as I may consume.
  Madam Speaker, I just want to repeat once again that all this 
discussion has been on home heating oil for the Northeast. I know that 
is a major issue for people who live up in that part of the country, 
but this is being addressed already in another bill where there is 
funding in the conference report that is working its way through. That 
is the proper venue for this.
  I would like to make one other point because this is probably the 
first time that the issue has really been debated on the floor 
regarding the Strategic Oil Reserves. Part of the long-term solution, I 
want to emphasize the word ``long-term solution,'' is obviously to try 
to find more sources to get petroleum. That has not been talked about. 
It certainly was not talked about at all here in debate.
  I would like to cite one statistic. When we created the Department of 
Energy some 25, 30 years ago, it was a crisis. One of the reasons why 
we created the Department of Energy is, horror upon horrors, we were 
importing about one-third of our oil. So now here we are 25 years or so 
or more later and we are importing some 50 percent of our oil.
  I would just contend, if it was a crisis some 25, 30 years ago to 
have a cabinet-level agency to look at our energy policies when we were 
only importing 30 percent, it certainly ought to be something that we 
look at right now. Obviously, part of the long-term solution is to find 
more sources for oil.
  Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and I move the 
previous question on the resolution.
  The previous question was ordered.
  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.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Madam Speaker, I object to the vote on the ground that a 
quorum is not present and make the point of order that a quorum is not 
present.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Evidently a quorum is not present.
  The Sergeant at Arms will notify absent Members.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 231, 
nays 186, not voting 16, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 500]

                               YEAS--231

     Aderholt
     Archer
     Armey
     Bachus
     Baker
     Ballenger
     Barr
     Barrett (NE)
     Bartlett
     Barton
     Bass
     Bentsen
     Bereuter
     Berkley
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bono
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (FL)
     Bryant
     Burr
     Burton
     Buyer
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canady
     Cannon
     Carson
     Chabot
     Chambliss
     Chenoweth-Hage
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Collins
     Combest
     Cook
     Cooksey
     Cox
     Crane
     Cubin
     Cunningham
     Davis (FL)
     Davis (VA)
     Deal
     DeLay
     DeMint
     Diaz-Balart
     Dickey
     Dicks
     Dooley
     Doolittle
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Ehlers
     Ehrlich
     Emerson
     English
     Everett
     Ewing
     Fletcher
     Foley
     Fowler
     Franks (NJ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Frost
     Gallegly
     Ganske
     Gekas
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Goodling
     Goss
     Graham
     Granger
     Green (TX)
     Green (WI)
     Greenwood
     Gutknecht
     Hall (TX)
     Hansen
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Herger
     Hill (MT)
     Hilleary
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Horn
     Hostettler
     Houghton
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Hutchinson
     Hyde
     Isakson
     Istook
     Jenkins
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Kasich
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Kuykendall
     LaHood
     Lampson
     Largent
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Leach
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     LoBiondo
     Lucas (OK)
     Manzullo
     Martinez
     McCrery
     McInnis
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     Meek (FL)
     Metcalf
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller, Gary
     Mollohan
     Moore
     Moran (KS)
     Morella
     Myrick
     Napolitano
     Nethercutt
     Ney
     Northup
     Nussle
     Ose
     Oxley
     Packard
     Pastor
     Pease
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Pombo
     Porter
     Portman
     Pryce (OH)
     Radanovich
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Riley
     Rogan
     Rogers
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roukema
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Ryun (KS)
     Salmon
     Sandlin
     Sanford
     Saxton
     Scarborough

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     Schaffer
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shows
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Skeen
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Souder
     Spence
     Stearns
     Stump
     Sununu
     Tauscher
     Tauzin
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thomas
     Thompson (MS)
     Thornberry
     Thune
     Tiahrt
     Toomey
     Traficant
     Upton
     Vitter
     Walden
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Watkins
     Watts (OK)
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson
     Wise
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                               NAYS--186

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

                             NOT VOTING--16

     Castle
     Clay
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Fossella
     Jones (OH)
     Klink
     LaFalce
     Lazio
     McCollum
     McIntosh
     Norwood
     Paul
     Stabenow
     Talent
     Vento

                              {time}  1116

  Messrs. McHUGH, HOLT, TAYLOR of Mississippi, QUINN, SWEENEY, 
REYNOLDS, and Mrs. KELLY changed their vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  Mr. LAMPSON changed his vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So the resolution was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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