[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 132 (Thursday, October 19, 2000)]
[House]
[Pages H10366-H10369]
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PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 4635, DEPARTMENTS OF VETERANS
AFFAIRS AND HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2001
Ms. PRYCE of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on
Rules, I call up House Resolution 638 and ask for its immediate
consideration.
The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:
H. Res. 638
Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be
in order to consider the conference report to accompany the
bill (H.R. 4635) making appropriations for the Departments of
Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development and for
sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions,
corporations, and offices 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 (Mr. LaTourette). The gentlewoman from Ohio
(Ms. Pryce) is recognized for 1 hour.
Ms. PRYCE of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, for purposes of debate only I yield
the customary 30 minutes to my friend and colleague the gentleman from
Massachusetts (Mr. Moakley) 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, House Resolution 638 is a rule waiving all points of
order against the conference report and against its consideration to
accompany H.R. 4635, the fiscal year 2001 appropriations bill for the
Departments of Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban Development, and
Independent Agencies.
Mr. Speaker, this conference report provides another example of a
carefully crafted bill that strikes a balance between the fiscal
discipline and social responsibility Americans expect of this Congress.
I would like to once again commend the chairman of the subcommittee,
the gentleman from New York (Mr. Walsh) and the ranking member, the
gentleman from West Virginia (Mr. Mollohan), and all the members of the
Committee on Appropriations for making the tough decisions required to
produce a very thoughtful bill that meets our most important
priorities.
I would also like to express a personal note of gratitude for the
assistance to help increase affordable housing opportunities in my
district of Columbus, Ohio. This conference report provides a small
amount of needed funding which will, in turn, become the foundation to
give more people in Columbus the opportunity to fulfill the dream of
home ownership.
The VA-HUD appropriation bill funds a variety of important programs
to take care of our veterans, address the Nation's critical housing
needs, preserve and protect our environment, invest in scientific
research, and continue our exploration into space.
The conference report maintains our commitment to our Nation's
veterans, who selflessly place themselves in harm's way so that we may
enjoy the very freedoms which we so much cherish. This year, it
provides an additional $1.36 billion over last year's historic increase
for veterans' medical health care. It increases veterans' medical and
prosthetic research by $30 million, and provides an extra $73 million
over last year's funding level for the Veterans Benefits Administration
to expedite claims that need processed for our veterans.
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Finally, this conference report provides $100 million for Veterans
State Extended Facilities, an increase of $40 million above the
President's request.
Mr. Speaker, along with providing for the needs of our veterans, this
conference report makes available important resources to help the most
vulnerable in our society and place roofs over their heads.
Low-income families will benefit through this bill's investment in
the Housing Certificate Program, which provides funding for section 8
renewals and tenant protection.
A $2.5 billion increase over last year's funding level will allow for
the renewal of all expiring section 8 contracts and provide needed
relocation assistance at the level requested by the President. A total
of $14 billion is provided for this important program in fiscal year
2001.
Other needed housing programs that help our elderly, people with
AIDS, and Native Americans will also receive increases above last
year's funding levels in this conference report.
H.R. 4365 also looks toward the future by preserving and protecting
our environment for the next generation to enjoy.
It is my understanding that the conference report before us today
resolves a number of outstanding environmental concerns which were
previously expressed and are no longer considered controversial. The
bill targets funding and places an emphasis on State grants to protect
the water that we drink and the air that we breathe.
The State Revolving Fund for Safe Drinking Water is increased by more
than $5 million from last year's level, and the Clean Water State
Resolving Fund is increased by $550 million over the President's
request. And finally, State Air grants are increased $6 million.
Finally, Mr. Speaker, this conference report provides important
funding which maintains our commitment to the exploration of space and
the improvement of science.
Total funding of $4.4 billion for NSF is the largest budget in its
history and will help this important agency continue its mission of
developing a national policy on science and promoting basic research as
well as increasing scientific education.
NASA also receives an increase that will bring total funding to more
than $14.3 billion.
Mr. Speaker, it is also important to note that this conference report
includes two other important provisions.
First, like other appropriation conference reports considered and
passed this year, the VA-HUD Conference Report maintains our commitment
to debt reduction by providing yet another $5 billion to pay down the
public debt.
Second, it contains a new version of the previously passed fiscal
year 2001 Energy and Water appropriations bill, which now has the
support of the administration.
Mr. Speaker, it is a good conference report and deserves our support.
It takes a responsible path toward responding to our Nation's most
pressing needs and priorities.
I urge all of my colleagues to support the straightforward,
noncontroversial rule as well as this must-do piece of legislation.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
I thank my colleague and dear friend, the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms.
Pryce), for yielding me the customary half hour.
Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this rule providing for the
consideration of VA-HUD and Energy and Water appropriations bills.
I would like to congratulate my colleagues, the gentleman from New
York (Chairman Walsh) and the gentleman from West Virginia (Mr.
Mollohan), the ranking member, for their excellent work on this very,
very difficult subject matter and the excellent work on this conference
report.
When this bill came to the floor the first time in June, it really
needed a lot of help. But lucky for the American veterans and the
American families, it did get that help.
This conference report, Mr. Speaker, is a welcomed and radical
departure from the first VA-HUD appropriations bill. This bill provides
more money for veterans medical research and State veterans homes. It
also does a better job of funding housing programs, which people in my
home State of Massachusetts will be very, very happy to hear.
Mr. Speaker, I believe that veterans and housing programs are very,
very important. They give people hope. They save lives. And they should
be adequately funded, especially given today's strong economy. And
lucky for us and thanks to the gentleman from New York (Chairman Walsh)
and the gentleman from West Virginia (Mr. Mollohan) this conference
report does just that.
It also includes the Energy and Water Appropriations Conference
Report, which now has been attached to the VA-HUD Appropriations
Conference Report. Thanks to the hard work of the gentleman from
California
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(Mr. Packard) and the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Visclosky), the
Energy and Water Conference Report contains funding for some very, very
good water resource infrastructure projects.
Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased that they were able to come to an
agreement with the White House on the language that caused the
President to veto the bill the first time around.
It funds the Army Corps of Engineers' water projects and the Bureau
of Reclamation, in addition to the Department of Energy's science
programs. And thanks to the very excellent work on the part of the
appropriations conferees, these two conference reports represent
bipartisan agreements on a number of very important issues.
So I urge my colleagues to support the conference reports.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Ms. PRYCE of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to my
distinguished colleague, the gentleman from the State of Georgia (Mr.
Linder), a member of the Committee on Rules.
Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding me the
time.
Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the rule providing for
consideration of the conference report on H.R. 4635, VA-HUD
appropriations for fiscal year 2001. This compromise bill is a result
of many hours of hard work by Members of the House and the Senate, and
it is a bipartisan agreement that deserves the support of this body.
I would like to express my appreciation for the conference
committee's inclusion of an amendment offered by myself and my
colleague, the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Collins), when the House
first considered the bill. The language in our amendment ensures that
Federal, State, and local governments do not waste precious taxpayer
dollars on air quality standards that have been rendered unenforceable
by the Federal Appeals Court.
Common sense dictates that until the Supreme Court has the
opportunity to rule on these air quality standards, the Federal
Government should not enforce them.
Our amendment passed the House in a strong bipartisan vote. I am
pleased that Members of the conference committee recognized that
hundreds of communities across the country could be tainted by
designations made under these legally unenforceable standards without
the inclusion of our amendment language. Our communities will be
grateful for our actions.
Finally, Mr. Speaker, I would like to express my appreciation to the
gentleman from New York (Mr. Walsh), the chairman of the Subcommittee
on VA, HUD and Independent Agencies; and the gentleman from West
Virginia (Mr. Mollohan), the ranking member on the subcommittee, for
their hard work in crafting a fine bipartisan bill. I thank them.
I urge all Members to support the rule and the underlying bill.
Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 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 thank the ranking member for
yielding me the time.
Mr. Speaker, let me acknowledge the very hard work that has been done
by this entire committee, the Committee on Appropriations. The work is
still being done.
I wish that we could move forward on some of the many important
issues, as the gentleman from New York (Mr. Walsh), the chairman of the
Subcommittee on VA, HUD and Independent Agencies, and the gentleman
from West Virginia (Mr. Mollohan), the ranking member, have done today.
I rise to support the rule as well as the legislation, and I agree
with the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Moakley) that this is a much
better bill. I am very gratified that we have in this bill $575 million
for distressed housing; 10 million of that can be used for technical
assistance.
A few sessions ago, I passed legislation that would obligate or
require or encourage the residents of various distressed public housing
to be able to work in efforts of rehabilitation. I hope that, with this
funding, more of that initiative will be in place.
In addition, however, I would like to say to the public housing
authorities that, as we render to them Federal funds, I think it is
important that they look to utilize minority-owned, women-owned, and
small-owned businesses.
In my own Houston Harris County Housing Authority, that has not been
the case. And I hope that they can be impressed by the large Federal
dollars to help both the tenants and the community, as well as rebuild
housing.
I am very pleased to see $90 million in second-round empowerment
zones, some of the most important tools to reinvest and rebuild our
communities. Veterans have been funded, and we are appreciative for
what this legislation has done to fund the necessary needs of our
veterans.
NASA is funded at $14.3 billion. But, as well, we have $6 billion for
aeronautics, science and technology.
I am very delighted, as well, that there are dollars in this bill
that will help provide supportive assistance for those seeking housing,
affordable housing. And, as well, I am very grateful for the EDI grants
to several of the nonprofits in my area, a multiculture center that
encourages Hispanic culture and, as well, a million-dollar grant that I
am very pleased to have support that is initiated by Senator Hutchinson
for the Freedmans Town African American Museum.
This is a bill that responds to America's needs both in housing and
as well as in economic development. As it relates to homeless
individuals, of which I worked on as a member of the Houston City
Council and continue to work on, I am very delighted that the homeless
dollars now include assistance that will be coordinated with mainstream
health, social services, employment programs which the homeless
populations may be eligible for, including Medicaid, State children's
health insurance, temporary assistance for needy families.
This bill, Mr. Speaker, is a bill that answers to the needs of the
American people. It certainly is a bill that all of us have worked on
with the chairman and the ranking member. I thank them again for their
very hard work. I look forward to our community doing better because
this legislation passes.
Ms. PRYCE of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to yield such time
as he may consume to my distinguished colleague, the gentleman from
Florida (Mr. Goss), the vice-chairman of the Committee on Rules.
(Mr. GOSS asked and was given permission to revise and extend his
remarks.)
Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I thank my good friend, the gentlewoman from
Ohio (Ms. Pryce), for yielding me the time. She brings credit and
strength to our leadership and to our Committee on Rules.
Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of this rule, which provides
for orderly consideration of the VA-HUD Appropriations Conference
Report. It is a standard rule for an appropriations conference report,
and it deserves the support of every Member of the House.
In the wake of the tragic attack on the U.S.S. Cole, which we sadly
all know about, Americans are painfully and necessarily reminded again
of the great sacrifices our servicemen and servicewomen make to protect
our interests and the interests of all Americans at home and abroad.
Presently we are living in what I call ``blue sky times,'' an era of
peace and prosperity. But, tragically, it is only relative peace. The
recent tragedy is a sharp reminder of the sacrifices and risks our
soldiers and sailors and airmen are confronted with day in and day out
as they go about their business.
We must remember and emphasize that veterans made a selfless promise
to defend and protect our country too. Now it is time that we deliver
to them on the promises made about the security and comfort of adequate
health care and benefits.
H.R. 4635 is a vehicle to help us accomplish that goal. This bill
provides $20.3 billion to fully fund medical health care for veterans.
That is a $1.36 billion increase over last year, and I am proud of
that.
My home State of Florida has the second largest population of
veterans in the country. I can tell my colleagues from firsthand
experience talking with many of them and visiting clinics that
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these funds are greatly needed in our clinics and hospitals.
In addition, H.R. 4635 increases veterans medical and prosthetic
research by $30 million, more than the President's request.
For veterans wounded in the line of duty, new technology resulting
from these funds may mean the difference between being wheelchair bound
and being able to walk. What a wonderful thought.
Finally, the conference report provides an extra $73 million to the
Veterans Benefits Administration to expedite claims processing. This
money would help alleviate some of the red tape associated with
benefits claims. Moving vets out of the long lines and into programs
for services will be provided timely.
Congress has made meaningful progress this year on providing for our
veterans. Most notably, of course, is this year's defense authorization
bill that keeps the promise of lifetime health care to military
retirees. We build on those achievements by providing veterans expanded
care and benefits as well today in this legislation.
I urge my colleagues to illustrate and underscore their dedication to
our veterans by supporting passage of this bill and supporting this
rule.
Ms. PRYCE of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield 4 minutes to my
distinguished colleague, the gentleman from the State of California
(Mr. Cunningham).
Mr. CUNNINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, I thank my friends, the gentleman from
New York (Chairman Walsh) and the gentleman from West Virginia (Mr.
Mollohan), for their efforts on this bill, and also the gentleman from
Arizona (Mr. Stump), the subcommittee chairman. And what a good job
that they have done.
Veterans health care, when we add $1.7 billion last year and add
$1.36 billion this year over last year's, it is a slight commitment to
show that the veterans are important. The medical research in this
bill, one may say, why do we have medical research in a veterans bill?
Well, all the way back from World War II, veterans that had nuclear
reactions from the bombs where we put our people in harm's way, from
the Desert Storm Syndrome to Agent Orange to anthrax shots, and for
example, how does anthrax shots, with more and more women in our
military, affect a woman who may have a child? That medical research is
very, very important within the military.
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I would specifically like to thank the gentleman from Illinois
(Speaker Hastert), the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Armey), and the
gentleman from Texas (Mr. DeLay). There is an issue that I have been
working on since 1991, and quite often when there has been a promise
given by someone like General MacArthur and the President of the United
States almost 60 years ago, it is difficult to get that priority in a
bill. We have been able to do that with our leadership's help.
The issue is this provides help for thousands of Filipino American
veterans across the Nation. The language in the bill provides full
dependency and indemnity compensation benefits so long denied for those
who fought alongside our troops in World War II. Despite the fact that
many of these valiant soldiers suffered the same casualties and wounds
fighting with U.S. forces that our own troops did, they have until now
received only 50 percent of the disability benefits. This bill changes
that to 100 percent.
In addition, the bill insures full VA medical coverage for those
Filipino-American World War II veterans who are already being treated
in VA facilities for their service-connected disability. Currently
Filipino-American veterans may not receive care for any condition
except specific to their service-connected disability. This bill
changes that as well.
While seemingly limited extensions of benefits, they are extremely
significant to over 1,200 qualifying veterans who are living on fixed
incomes. Many of these veterans are in their 70s and 80s, at a time in
their lives where health care access is as critical as ever. With so
few Filipino-American veterans surviving, numbers decreasing annually,
the time to ensure those benefits is now. That is why I thank our
leadership and the gentleman from New York (Mr. Walsh) and the
gentleman from West Virginia (Mr. Mollohan) for adding this into this
important bill.
As one who championed the cause for Filipino Americans working with
President Ramos in the Philippines first and then working with
President Estrada, and the hundreds of both Filipino Americans and
Filipino nationals that came all the way from the Philippines to work
this initiative, let it be known that their efforts have carried
through and helped this.
This action has the full support of the larger veterans community and
it has been endorsed by every single one.
There are a couple of things that I would like to see in the next
veterans bill, though, that I would like to work with colleagues on
that side. I have hundreds of veterans that come up every year and say
they have lost their medical records. Either they were burned in a fire
or they were lost because of the old filing system. We need to
duplicate those records.
We also need to increase the amount again of veterans' benefits, and
I want to thank the chairman. I specifically want to thank the
gentleman from California (Mr. Bilbray), who championed this bill,
worked with our leadership, caused it to be effective. Without his
support, we would not have this Filipino veterans' initiative.
Ms. PRYCE of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to my distinguished
colleague, the gentleman from Montana (Mr. Hill).
Mr. HILL of Montana. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from Ohio
(Ms. Pryce) for yielding me this time.
Mr. Speaker, I reluctantly rise in opposition to this rule. There are
many provisions of this bill that I support. I have been a strong
advocate for veterans' health care and for energy and water projects.
However, the original energy and water bill as passed by the House of
Representatives included a very important provision for my State and
other Upper Missouri River States. It would have allowed us to preserve
the spring water runoff that occurs in our States.
Now, the Clinton-Gore administration wants to force these Upper
Missouri River States to increase the spring discharges from our
reservoirs. My State is a very arid State and it happens to be also the
home of the headwaters of the Missouri River. We get 50 percent of our
rainfall in a 2-month period of time, which happens to be the period of
time when the administration wants us to increase our discharges. We
also get all of our spring snow runoff during that very short period of
time.
The administration's plan, incidentally, is opposed by both the Upper
Missouri and the Lower Missouri States, because it would have an
adverse impact on our wildlife and have an adverse impact on our
economy.
Now, retaining the water in these reservoirs is very important for us
to maintain our fisheries. It is very important for us to have that
water for irrigation purposes. It is very important for us to have that
water for recreation purposes and for power generation at our peak-need
period of time.
The original energy and water bill had a provision to bar the
administration from forcing us to discharge this water, and that is why
the President vetoed the bill. Now, the House, by two-thirds, voted to
override the President's veto. We believe that this provision should be
part of this combined VA-HUD bill or these bills should be brought
separately so that we can cast our vote in opposition to this
provision.
For that reason, I intend to vote against the rule and would urge
others to do the same.
It is very important to my State. It is very important to the other
Upper Missouri States. It is very important to the Lower Missouri
States. I am going to ask for a recorded vote on the rule so that we
can make clear our position on this.
Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
Ms. PRYCE of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may
consume.
Mr. Speaker, I sympathize with my colleague, the gentleman from
Montana (Mr. Hill), but it is very important for the Members of this
body to realize that we must get our work done. The President vetoed
the bill with that important language in it,
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and so we must proceed without it. In light of that, this is a good
conference report, irrespective. It responds to the needs of our
veterans, protects our environment and keeps the U.S. at the forefront
of space exploration, addresses our Nation's critical housing needs and
helps more Americans realize the dream of owning their own home.
Adopting this rule will allow us to consider all of those important
initiatives.
I urge a yes vote on the rule and the conference report.
Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. LaTourette). Without objection, the
previous question is ordered on the resolution.
There was no objection.
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. HILL of Montana. 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.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 400,
nays 7, not voting 25, as follows:
[Roll No. 535]
YEAS--400
Abercrombie
Ackerman
Aderholt
Allen
Andrews
Archer
Armey
Baca
Bachus
Baird
Baker
Baldacci
Baldwin
Ballenger
Barcia
Barr
Barrett (NE)
Barrett (WI)
Bartlett
Barton
Bass
Becerra
Bentsen
Bereuter
Berkley
Berman
Berry
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop
Blagojevich
Bliley
Blumenauer
Blunt
Boehlert
Boehner
Bonilla
Bonior
Bono
Borski
Boswell
Boucher
Boyd
Brady (PA)
Brady (TX)
Brown (FL)
Brown (OH)
Bryant
Burr
Burton
Buyer
Callahan
Calvert
Camp
Canady
Cannon
Capps
Capuano
Cardin
Carson
Castle
Chabot
Chambliss
Clayton
Clement
Clyburn
Coble
Coburn
Collins
Combest
Condit
Conyers
Cook
Cooksey
Costello
Cox
Coyne
Cramer
Crane
Crowley
Cubin
Cummings
Cunningham
Davis (FL)
Davis (IL)
Davis (VA)
Deal
DeFazio
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
DeLay
DeMint
Deutsch
Diaz-Balart
Dickey
Dicks
Dingell
Dixon
Doggett
Dooley
Doolittle
Doyle
Dreier
Duncan
Dunn
Edwards
Ehlers
Ehrlich
Emerson
Engel
English
Eshoo
Etheridge
Evans
Everett
Ewing
Farr
Fattah
Filner
Fletcher
Foley
Forbes
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
Gutierrez
Gutknecht
Hall (OH)
Hall (TX)
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Hayes
Hayworth
Hefley
Herger
Hill (IN)
Hilleary
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hobson
Hoeffel
Hoekstra
Holden
Holt
Hooley
Horn
Hostettler
Hoyer
Hunter
Hutchinson
Hyde
Inslee
Isakson
Istook
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
Jenkins
John
Johnson (CT)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Jones (NC)
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kasich
Kelly
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kind (WI)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kleczka
Klink
Knollenberg
Kolbe
Kucinich
Kuykendall
LaFalce
LaHood
Lampson
Lantos
Largent
Larson
LaTourette
Leach
Lee
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
LoBiondo
Lofgren
Lowey
Lucas (KY)
Lucas (OK)
Luther
Maloney (CT)
Maloney (NY)
Manzullo
Markey
Martinez
Mascara
Matsui
McCarthy (MO)
McCarthy (NY)
McCrery
McDermott
McGovern
McHugh
McInnis
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinney
McNulty
Meehan
Meek (FL)
Meeks (NY)
Menendez
Metcalf
Mica
Millender-McDonald
Miller, Gary
Miller, George
Minge
Mink
Moakley
Mollohan
Moore
Moran (KS)
Morella
Murtha
Myrick
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Nethercutt
Ney
Northup
Norwood
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Ose
Owens
Packard
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor
Paul
Payne
Pease
Peterson (MN)
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Phelps
Pickering
Pickett
Pitts
Pombo
Pomeroy
Porter
Portman
Price (NC)
Pryce (OH)
Quinn
Radanovich
Rahall
Ramstad
Rangel
Regula
Reyes
Reynolds
Riley
Rivers
Rogan
Rogers
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Rothman
Roukema
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Rush
Ryan (WI)
Ryun (KS)
Sabo
Salmon
Sanchez
Sanders
Sandlin
Sawyer
Saxton
Scarborough
Schaffer
Schakowsky
Scott
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sessions
Shadegg
Shaw
Sherman
Sherwood
Shimkus
Shows
Shuster
Simpson
Sisisky
Skeen
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (MI)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Snyder
Souder
Spence
Spratt
Stark
Stearns
Stenholm
Strickland
Stump
Stupak
Sununu
Sweeney
Tanner
Tauscher
Tauzin
Taylor (MS)
Taylor (NC)
Terry
Thomas
Thompson (CA)
Thornberry
Thune
Thurman
Tiahrt
Tierney
Toomey
Towns
Traficant
Udall (CO)
Udall (NM)
Upton
Velazquez
Visclosky
Vitter
Walden
Walsh
Wamp
Waters
Watkins
Watt (NC)
Watts (OK)
Waxman
Weiner
Weldon (FL)
Weldon (PA)
Weller
Wexler
Weygand
Whitfield
Wicker
Wilson
Wolf
Woolsey
Wu
Wynn
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
NAYS--7
Danner
Hill (MT)
Hulshof
Latham
Nussle
Roemer
Tancredo
NOT VOTING--25
Campbell
Chenoweth-Hage
Clay
Franks (NJ)
Hansen
Hilliard
Houghton
Jones (OH)
Lazio
Lewis (CA)
Lipinski
McCollum
McIntosh
Miller (FL)
Moran (VA)
Oxley
Pelosi
Rodriguez
Sanford
Shays
Stabenow
Talent
Thompson (MS)
Turner
Wise
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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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