[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 136 (Thursday, October 26, 2000)]
[House]
[Pages H11264-H11265]
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FURTHER CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2001
Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to the provisions of
House Resolution 646, I call up the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 116)
making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2001, and for
other purposes, and ask for its immediate consideration in the House.
The Clerk read the title of the joint resolution.
The text of House Joint Resolution 116 is as follows:
H.J. Res. 116
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That Public
Law 106-275, is further amended by striking the date
specified in section 106(c) and inserting ``October 27,
2000''.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 646, the
gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young) and the gentleman from Wisconsin
(Mr. Obey) each will control 30 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young).
Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may
consume.
Mr. Speaker, this is a 1-day continuing resolution that would take us
until midnight tomorrow night as we attempt to conclude the
appropriations business.
Later this afternoon we will take up the Commerce, Justice, District
of Columbia appropriations conference report. That leaves only one
outstanding to be completed, and we hope to do that just as quickly as
we can get together with our representatives from the President's
office to come to some agreement.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, we have no choice but to vote for this CR, as the
gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young) indicates. Before we do, I think we
need to simply take note of the fact that these continuing resolutions
are supposed to enable us to get our work done so that we can finish
the budget for the coming year.
I had the impression that what we were supposed to be doing during
this time was to be resolving our differences so that in fact the time
that we were spending would be spent in ways which would get us all
home so that we could get on the campaign trail and occasionally
introduce ourselves to our constituents. That would be nice.
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The problem is that when we go through a day like we have gone
through today, we simply wasted an entire day. If the idea is to go
home as soon as possible, then today is a perfect example of how not to
do that, because the State-Justice-Commerce appropriations bill which
is about to come to the floor and the tax bill which has just left the
floor are two examples of how we are farther apart from each other than
we were when the day began.
All I would say is that there is no point in dragging this out. I
would hope that the majority party would recognize that rather than
sending bills up to the President to veto, it would be better to
actually resolve the differences between us. The main issue that still
remains between us is the issue of funding for education and the issue
of funding especially for school modernization and school construction.
I hope that the majority will recognize that we are not going to be
going home until that issue is resolved in a reasonable way.
Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman wants to yield back his time, I am
prepared to yield back my time.
Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman will yield, I
would like to yield myself 1 minute and then yield back my time if the
gentleman is prepared to yield back his time.
Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman is going to take a second
kick at the cat, I will, too. It is up to him.
Mr. YOUNG of Florida. I did not have much of a first kick at the cat
because there was so much noise in here I could not even hear myself
and I was hoping the gentleman would conclude his remarks during that
same period and then nobody would know what we said and we could pass
this CR and get out of here.
Mr. OBEY. All I can say to the House is that if they have listened to
him and they have listened to me, or if they have missed what either he
or I said, they have not missed much.
Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman is ready to yield
back, I am ready to yield back.
Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may
consume.
I would just ask the Members to vote for this CR and let us get about
the rest of the business for today.
Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Pease). All time for debate has expired.
The joint resolution is considered as having been read for amendment.
Pursuant to House Resolution 646, the previous question is ordered.
The question is on the engrossment and third reading of the joint
resolution.
The joint resolution was ordered to be engrossed and read a third
time, and was read the third time.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the joint
resolution.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
Recorded Vote
Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 392,
noes 10, not voting 30, as follows:
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[Roll No. 561]
AYES--392
Abercrombie
Ackerman
Aderholt
Allen
Andrews
Archer
Armey
Baca
Bachus
Baker
Baldacci
Baldwin
Ballenger
Barcia
Barr
Barrett (NE)
Barrett (WI)
Bartlett
Bass
Becerra
Bentsen
Bereuter
Berkley
Berman
Berry
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop
Blumenauer
Blunt
Boehlert
Boehner
Bonilla
Bonior
Bono
Borski
Boswell
Boucher
Boyd
Brady (TX)
Brown (FL)
Brown (OH)
Bryant
Burr
Burton
Buyer
Callahan
Calvert
Camp
Canady
Cannon
Capps
Cardin
Carson
Castle
Chabot
Chambliss
Clay
Clayton
Clement
Clyburn
Coble
Coburn
Collins
Combest
Condit
Conyers
Cook
Cooksey
Cox
Coyne
Cramer
Crane
Cubin
Cummings
Cunningham
Davis (FL)
Davis (IL)
Davis (VA)
Deal
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
DeLay
DeMint
Deutsch
Diaz-Balart
Dickey
Dicks
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
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 (TX)
Hansen
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Hayes
Hayworth
Hefley
Herger
Hill (IN)
Hill (MT)
Hilleary
Hilliard
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hobson
Hoeffel
Hoekstra
Holden
Holt
Hooley
Horn
Hostettler
Houghton
Hoyer
Hulshof
Hunter
Hyde
Inslee
Isakson
Istook
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
Jenkins
John
Johnson (CT)
Johnson, E.B.
Jones (NC)
Jones (OH)
Kanjorski
Kasich
Kelly
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kind (WI)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kleczka
Knollenberg
Kolbe
Kucinich
Kuykendall
LaFalce
LaHood
Lampson
Lantos
Largent
Larson
Latham
LaTourette
Leach
Lee
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Lofgren
Lowey
Lucas (KY)
Lucas (OK)
Luther
Maloney (CT)
Maloney (NY)
Manzullo
Markey
Mascara
Matsui
McCarthy (MO)
McCarthy (NY)
McCrery
McDermott
McGovern
McHugh
McInnis
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinney
McNulty
Meehan
Meek (FL)
Meeks (NY)
Menendez
Mica
Millender-McDonald
Miller (FL)
Miller, Gary
Minge
Mink
Moakley
Mollohan
Moore
Moran (KS)
Moran (VA)
Morella
Murtha
Myrick
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Nethercutt
Northup
Norwood
Nussle
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Ose
Owens
Oxley
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor
Paul
Pease
Pelosi
Peterson (MN)
Petri
Phelps
Pickering
Pickett
Pitts
Pombo
Pomeroy
Porter
Portman
Price (NC)
Pryce (OH)
Quinn
Radanovich
Rahall
Ramstad
Rangel
Regula
Reyes
Reynolds
Riley
Rivers
Rodriguez
Roemer
Rogan
Rogers
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Rothman
Roukema
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Rush
Ryan (WI)
Ryun (KS)
Sabo
Salmon
Sanchez
Sanders
Sandlin
Sanford
Sawyer
Saxton
Scarborough
Schakowsky
Scott
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sessions
Shadegg
Shaw
Shays
Sherman
Sherwood
Shimkus
Shows
Shuster
Simpson
Sisisky
Skeen
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (MI)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Snyder
Souder
Spence
Stabenow
Stark
Stearns
Stenholm
Strickland
Stump
Sununu
Sweeney
Tancredo
Tanner
Tauscher
Taylor (MS)
Taylor (NC)
Terry
Thomas
Thompson (CA)
Thornberry
Thune
Thurman
Tiahrt
Tierney
Toomey
Towns
Traficant
Turner
Udall (CO)
Udall (NM)
Upton
Velazquez
Vitter
Walden
Walsh
Wamp
Watkins
Watt (NC)
Watts (OK)
Weiner
Weldon (FL)
Weldon (PA)
Weller
Wexler
Weygand
Whitfield
Wicker
Wilson
Wolf
Woolsey
Wu
Wynn
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
NOES--10
Baird
Barton
Capuano
Costello
DeFazio
Dingell
Kaptur
Miller, George
Stupak
Visclosky
NOT VOTING--30
Blagojevich
Bliley
Brady (PA)
Campbell
Chenoweth-Hage
Crowley
Danner
Fowler
Franks (NJ)
Hall (OH)
Hutchinson
Johnson, Sam
Klink
Lazio
Martinez
McCollum
McIntosh
Metcalf
Ney
Packard
Payne
Peterson (PA)
Schaffer
Spratt
Talent
Tauzin
Thompson (MS)
Waters
Waxman
Wise
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So the joint resolution was passed.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
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