[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 92 (Thursday, June 28, 2001)]
[House]
[Pages H3717-H3738]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2002

  The SPEAKER. Pursuant to House Resolution 180 and rule XVIII, the 
Chair declares the House in the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union for the further consideration of the bill, H.R. 
2311.

                              {time}  0906


                     In the Committee of the Whole

  Accordingly, the House resolved itself into the Committee of the 
Whole House on the State of the Union for the further consideration of 
the bill (H.R. 2311) making appropriations for energy and water 
development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, and for 
other purposes, with Mr. Simpson in the chair.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The CHAIRMAN. When the Committee of the Whole House rose on 
Wednesday, June 27, 2001, a demand for a recorded vote on the amendment 
offered by the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Bonior) had been postponed 
and the bill was open for amendment from page 22, line 19, through page 
23, line 4.


          Sequential Votes Postponed in Committee of the Whole

  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, proceedings will 
now resume on those amendments on which further proceedings were 
postponed in the following order:
  Amendment offered by the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Tancredo); 
amendment No. 4 offered by the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Tancredo); 
amendment offered by the gentleman from New York (Mr. Hinchey); 
amendment No. 2 offered by the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Kucinich); and 
amendment offered by the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Bonior).
  The Chair will reduce to 5 minutes the time for any electronic vote 
after the first vote in this series.

[[Page H3718]]

                   Amendment Offered by Mr. Tancredo

  The CHAIRMAN. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded 
vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. 
Tancredo) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the 
noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment offered by Mr. Tancredo:
       Page 2, line 18, after the dollar amount, insert the 
     following: ``(reduced by $9,900,000)''.
       Page 18, line 2, after the dollar amount, insert the 
     following: ``(increased by $9,900,000)''.


                             Recorded Vote

  The CHAIRMAN. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 39, 
noes 372, not voting 22, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 199]

                                AYES--39

     Bartlett
     Biggert
     Boswell
     Cannon
     Davis, Jo Ann
     DeGette
     Doggett
     Ehlers
     Flake
     Gilchrest
     Goode
     Gutknecht
     Hefley
     Hinchey
     Holt
     Luther
     McCollum
     McKinney
     Moran (KS)
     Osborne
     Paul
     Pence
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Radanovich
     Ramstad
     Rivers
     Royce
     Schaffer
     Sensenbrenner
     Shadegg
     Shays
     Smith (MI)
     Sununu
     Tancredo
     Terry
     Toomey
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)

                               NOES--372

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Allen
     Andrews
     Armey
     Baca
     Bachus
     Baird
     Baker
     Baldacci
     Baldwin
     Ballenger
     Barcia
     Barr
     Barrett
     Bass
     Becerra
     Bentsen
     Bereuter
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Bilirakis
     Bishop
     Blagojevich
     Blumenauer
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonior
     Bono
     Borski
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (FL)
     Brown (OH)
     Brown (SC)
     Bryant
     Burr
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Camp
     Cantor
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Carson (IN)
     Carson (OK)
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chambliss
     Clay
     Clement
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Collins
     Combest
     Condit
     Conyers
     Cooksey
     Costello
     Cox
     Coyne
     Cramer
     Crane
     Crenshaw
     Crowley
     Cubin
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Cunningham
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (FL)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis, Tom
     Deal
     DeFazio
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     DeLay
     DeMint
     Deutsch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doolittle
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Edwards
     Emerson
     Engel
     English
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Evans
     Everett
     Farr
     Fattah
     Ferguson
     Filner
     Fletcher
     Foley
     Forbes
     Ford
     Fossella
     Frank
     Frelinghuysen
     Frost
     Gallegly
     Ganske
     Gekas
     Gephardt
     Gibbons
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Gonzalez
     Goodlatte
     Gordon
     Goss
     Graham
     Granger
     Graves
     Green (TX)
     Green (WI)
     Gutierrez
     Hall (OH)
     Hall (TX)
     Hansen
     Hart
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Herger
     Hill
     Hilleary
     Hilliard
     Hinojosa
     Hobson
     Hoeffel
     Hoekstra
     Holden
     Honda
     Hooley
     Horn
     Hostettler
     Houghton
     Hoyer
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Hutchinson
     Inslee
     Isakson
     Israel
     Issa
     Istook
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Jenkins
     John
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Jones (OH)
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Keller
     Kelly
     Kennedy (MN)
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kerns
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     Kind (WI)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Kleczka
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Kucinich
     LaFalce
     LaHood
     Lampson
     Langevin
     Lantos
     Largent
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (GA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Lofgren
     Lowey
     Lucas (KY)
     Lucas (OK)
     Maloney (CT)
     Maloney (NY)
     Manzullo
     Markey
     Mascara
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (MO)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCrery
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Menendez
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (FL)
     Miller, Gary
     Miller, George
     Mink
     Mollohan
     Moore
     Morella
     Murtha
     Myrick
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nethercutt
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Ose
     Otter
     Oxley
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peterson (MN)
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     Phelps
     Pombo
     Pomeroy
     Portman
     Price (NC)
     Pryce (OH)
     Quinn
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Reyes
     Reynolds
     Riley
     Rodriguez
     Roemer
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Ross
     Rothman
     Roukema
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Ryan (WI)
     Ryun (KS)
     Sabo
     Sanchez
     Sanders
     Sandlin
     Sawyer
     Saxton
     Scarborough
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrock
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shaw
     Sherman
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shows
     Shuster
     Simmons
     Simpson
     Skeen
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Solis
     Souder
     Spence
     Spratt
     Stark
     Stearns
     Stenholm
     Strickland
     Stump
     Stupak
     Sweeney
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Tauzin
     Taylor (MS)
     Taylor (NC)
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thornberry
     Thune
     Thurman
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Towns
     Traficant
     Turner
     Upton
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Vitter
     Walden
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Waters
     Watkins (OK)
     Watson (CA)
     Watt (NC)
     Watts (OK)
     Weiner
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Wexler
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson
     Wolf
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--22

     Barton
     Bonilla
     Burton
     Buyer
     Clayton
     Dooley
     Ehrlich
     Greenwood
     Grucci
     Harman
     Hyde
     Leach
     Mica
     Moran (VA)
     Owens
     Platts
     Putnam
     Serrano
     Smith (TX)
     Thomas
     Waxman
     Young (AK)

                              {time}  0934

  Messrs. LAMPSON, LARSEN of Washington, BLAGOJEVICH, LARGENT, DAVIS of 
Illinois, and MALONEY of Connecticut changed their vote from ``aye'' to 
``no.''
  Mr. PICKERING and Ms. McCOLLUM changed their vote from ``no'' to 
``aye.''
  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated against:
  Mr. GRUCCI. Mr. Chairman, on rollcall vote No. 199, I was detained in 
traffic and was unable to make it to the floor to vote on the Tancredo 
amendment increasing funding for the Department of Energy's Renewable 
Energy Research Program, while offsetting the Army Corps of Engineers 
General Investigations Account. Had I been present, I would have voted 
in the negative.
  Mr. MICA. Mr. Chairman, on rollcall No. 199, I was unavoidably 
detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no.''


                      Announcement by the Chairman

  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, the Chair announces 
that he will reduce to a minimum of 5 minutes the period of time within 
which a vote by electronic device will be taken on each amendment on 
which the Chair has postponed further proceedings.


                Amendment No. 4 Offered by Mr. Tancredo

  The CHAIRMAN. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded 
vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. 
Tancredo) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the 
noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment No. 4 offered by Mr. Tancredo:
       In title I, strike section 105 (relating to shore 
     protection projects cost sharing).


                             Recorded Vote

  The CHAIRMAN. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The CHAIRMAN. This will be a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 84, 
noes 333, not voting 16, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 200]

                                AYES--84

     Baldwin
     Barr
     Bartlett
     Bass
     Bereuter
     Blumenauer
     Bryant
     Cannon
     Chabot
     Clay
     Cubin
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLay
     Doggett
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Flake
     Foley
     Frank
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Graves
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Hill
     Hooley
     Hostettler
     Inslee
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson (IL)
     Kelly
     Kerns
     Kildee
     Kind (WI)
     Kolbe
     Largent
     Larsen (WA)
     Lee
     Lofgren
     Luther
     Maloney (CT)
     Matheson
     McCollum
     McGovern
     McKinney
     Meehan
     Miller, Gary
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran (KS)
     Neal
     Otter
     Paul
     Pence
     Peterson (MN)
     Petri
     Pitts
     Ramstad
     Rivers
     Sabo
     Sanchez
     Schaffer
     Sensenbrenner
     Shadegg
     Shays
     Sherman
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Solis
     Stark
     Sununu
     Tancredo
     Terry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Toomey
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Upton
     Waters

                               NOES--333

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Allen
     Andrews

[[Page H3719]]


     Armey
     Baca
     Bachus
     Baird
     Baker
     Baldacci
     Ballenger
     Barcia
     Barrett
     Becerra
     Bentsen
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Biggert
     Bilirakis
     Bishop
     Blagojevich
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bonior
     Bono
     Borski
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (FL)
     Brown (OH)
     Brown (SC)
     Burr
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Camp
     Cantor
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Carson (IN)
     Carson (OK)
     Castle
     Chambliss
     Clayton
     Clement
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Collins
     Combest
     Condit
     Conyers
     Cooksey
     Costello
     Cox
     Coyne
     Cramer
     Crane
     Crenshaw
     Crowley
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Cunningham
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (FL)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Davis, Tom
     Deal
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     DeMint
     Deutsch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doolittle
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Edwards
     Ehlers
     Emerson
     Engel
     English
     Etheridge
     Evans
     Everett
     Fattah
     Ferguson
     Filner
     Fletcher
     Forbes
     Ford
     Fossella
     Frelinghuysen
     Frost
     Gallegly
     Ganske
     Gekas
     Gephardt
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Goss
     Graham
     Granger
     Green (TX)
     Green (WI)
     Grucci
     Gutierrez
     Gutknecht
     Hall (OH)
     Hall (TX)
     Hansen
     Harman
     Hart
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Herger
     Hilleary
     Hilliard
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hobson
     Hoeffel
     Hoekstra
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Horn
     Houghton
     Hoyer
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Hutchinson
     Hyde
     Isakson
     Israel
     Issa
     Istook
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Jenkins
     John
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Jones (OH)
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Keller
     Kennedy (MN)
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kilpatrick
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Kleczka
     Knollenberg
     Kucinich
     LaFalce
     LaHood
     Lampson
     Langevin
     Lantos
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (GA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Lowey
     Lucas (KY)
     Lucas (OK)
     Maloney (NY)
     Manzullo
     Markey
     Mascara
     Matsui
     McCarthy (MO)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCrery
     McDermott
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McNulty
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Menendez
     Mica
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (FL)
     Mink
     Mollohan
     Morella
     Murtha
     Myrick
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Nethercutt
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Osborne
     Ose
     Oxley
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peterson (PA)
     Phelps
     Pickering
     Pombo
     Pomeroy
     Portman
     Price (NC)
     Pryce (OH)
     Quinn
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Reyes
     Reynolds
     Riley
     Rodriguez
     Roemer
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Ross
     Rothman
     Roukema
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Rush
     Ryan (WI)
     Sanders
     Sandlin
     Sawyer
     Saxton
     Scarborough
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrock
     Scott
     Serrano
     Sessions
     Shaw
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shows
     Shuster
     Simmons
     Simpson
     Skeen
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Souder
     Spence
     Spratt
     Stearns
     Stenholm
     Strickland
     Stump
     Stupak
     Sweeney
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Tauzin
     Taylor (MS)
     Taylor (NC)
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thornberry
     Thune
     Thurman
     Tierney
     Towns
     Traficant
     Turner
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Vitter
     Walden
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Watkins (OK)
     Watson (CA)
     Watt (NC)
     Watts (OK)
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Wexler
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson
     Wolf
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--16

     Barton
     Burton
     Buyer
     Dooley
     Ehrlich
     Greenwood
     Leach
     Moran (VA)
     Owens
     Platts
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Ryun (KS)
     Smith (TX)
     Thomas
     Young (AK)

                              {time}  0944

  Mr. CAMP and Mr. ROHRABACHER changed their vote from ``aye'' to 
``no.''
  Mr. SHERMAN changed his vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Hinchey

  The CHAIRMAN. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded 
vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New York (Mr. 
Hinchey) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the 
noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment offered by Mr. Hinchey:
       In title III, in the item relating to ``DEPARTMENT OF 
     ENERGY PROGRAMS; energy supply'' after the aggregate dollar 
     amount, insert the following: ``(increased by $50,000,000)''.
       In title III, in the item relating to ``ATOMIC ENERGY 
     DEFENSE ACTIVITIES NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY ADMINISTRATION; 
     Weapons Activities'' after the aggregate dollar amount, 
     insert the following: ``(reduced by $60,000,000)''.


                             Recorded Vote

  The CHAIRMAN. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The CHAIRMAN. This will be a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 163, 
noes 258, not voting 12, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 201]

                               AYES--163

     Ackerman
     Allen
     Andrews
     Baca
     Baird
     Baldacci
     Baldwin
     Barcia
     Barrett
     Bass
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Blumenauer
     Boehlert
     Bonior
     Boswell
     Brown (FL)
     Brown (OH)
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Carson (IN)
     Clay
     Clayton
     Conyers
     Coyne
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (FL)
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     Deutsch
     Doggett
     Ehlers
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Evans
     Farr
     Fattah
     Ferguson
     Filner
     Frank
     Frost
     Gephardt
     Gonzalez
     Gutierrez
     Hall (OH)
     Hastings (FL)
     Hilliard
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hoeffel
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones (OH)
     Kaptur
     Kelly
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     Kind (WI)
     Kleczka
     Kucinich
     LaFalce
     Lantos
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee
     Levin
     LoBiondo
     Lofgren
     Lowey
     Luther
     Maloney (NY)
     Markey
     McCarthy (MO)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Menendez
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller, George
     Mink
     Moore
     Moran (VA)
     Morella
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Paul
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Petri
     Price (NC)
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Rangel
     Rivers
     Rodriguez
     Roemer
     Rothman
     Roukema
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Sabo
     Sanders
     Sawyer
     Schaffer
     Schakowsky
     Scott
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Shays
     Sherman
     Simmons
     Slaughter
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (WA)
     Solis
     Stark
     Strickland
     Stupak
     Thompson (CA)
     Tierney
     Towns
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Waters
     Watson (CA)
     Watt (NC)
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn

                               NOES--258

     Abercrombie
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Armey
     Bachus
     Baker
     Ballenger
     Barr
     Bartlett
     Bentsen
     Bereuter
     Berry
     Biggert
     Bilirakis
     Bishop
     Blagojevich
     Blunt
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bono
     Borski
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (SC)
     Bryant
     Burr
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Camp
     Cannon
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carson (OK)
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chambliss
     Clement
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Collins
     Combest
     Condit
     Cooksey
     Costello
     Cox
     Cramer
     Crane
     Crenshaw
     Cubin
     Culberson
     Cunningham
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Davis, Tom
     Deal
     DeLauro
     DeLay
     DeMint
     Diaz-Balart
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doolittle
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Edwards
     Emerson
     English
     Etheridge
     Everett
     Flake
     Fletcher
     Foley
     Forbes
     Ford
     Fossella
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Ganske
     Gekas
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Gordon
     Goss
     Graham
     Granger
     Graves
     Green (TX)
     Green (WI)
     Greenwood
     Grucci
     Gutknecht
     Hall (TX)
     Hansen
     Harman
     Hart
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Herger
     Hill
     Hilleary
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Holden
     Horn
     Hostettler
     Houghton
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Hutchinson
     Hyde
     Isakson
     Israel
     Issa
     Istook
     Jenkins
     John
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Kanjorski
     Keller
     Kennedy (MN)
     Kerns
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     LaHood
     Lampson
     Langevin
     Largent
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (GA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     Lipinski
     Lucas (KY)
     Lucas (OK)
     Maloney (CT)
     Manzullo
     Mascara
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCrery
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller, Gary
     Mollohan
     Moran (KS)
     Murtha
     Myrick
     Nethercutt
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Ortiz
     Osborne
     Ose
     Otter
     Oxley
     Pence
     Peterson (MN)
     Peterson (PA)
     Phelps
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Pombo
     Pomeroy
     Portman
     Pryce (OH)
     Quinn
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Reyes
     Reynolds
     Riley
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Ross
     Royce

[[Page H3720]]


     Ryan (WI)
     Ryun (KS)
     Sanchez
     Sandlin
     Saxton
     Scarborough
     Schiff
     Schrock
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shows
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Skeen
     Skelton
     Smith (NJ)
     Snyder
     Souder
     Spence
     Spratt
     Stearns
     Stenholm
     Stump
     Sununu
     Sweeney
     Tancredo
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Tauzin
     Taylor (MS)
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thompson (MS)
     Thornberry
     Thune
     Thurman
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Toomey
     Traficant
     Turner
     Upton
     Vitter
     Walden
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Watkins (OK)
     Watts (OK)
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Wexler
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson
     Wolf
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--12

     Barton
     Burton
     Buyer
     Dooley
     Ehrlich
     Leach
     Platts
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Smith (TX)
     Thomas
     Young (AK)

                              {time}  0952

  Mr. PASTOR changed his vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                Amendment No. 2 Offered by Mr. Kucinich

  The CHAIRMAN. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded 
vote on amendment No. 2 offered by the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. 
Kucinich), on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the 
noes prevailed by a voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment No. 2 offered by Mr. Kucinich:
       In title III, in the item relating to ``Weapons 
     Activities,'' after aggregate dollar amount, insert the 
     following; ``(reduced by $112,500,000)''.
       In title III, in the item relating to ``Defense Nuclear 
     Nonproliferations'', after the aggregate dollar amount, 
     insert the following: ``(increased by $66,000,000)''.


                             Recorded Vote

  The CHAIRMAN. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The CHAIRMAN. This will be a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 91, 
noes 331, not voting 11, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 202]

                                AYES--91

     Allen
     Andrews
     Baird
     Baldacci
     Baldwin
     Barrett
     Blumenauer
     Bonior
     Brown (OH)
     Carson (IN)
     Clay
     Conyers
     Cummings
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Deutsch
     Doggett
     Eshoo
     Evans
     Farr
     Fattah
     Ferguson
     Filner
     Frank
     Hilliard
     Hinchey
     Honda
     Hooley
     Jackson (IL)
     Jones (OH)
     Kaptur
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kildee
     Kind (WI)
     Kleczka
     Kucinich
     LaFalce
     Lantos
     Lee
     Levin
     LoBiondo
     Luther
     Maloney (NY)
     Markey
     McCarthy (MO)
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Miller, George
     Mink
     Moore
     Moran (VA)
     Nadler
     Neal
     Ney
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Owens
     Pallone
     Paul
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Rivers
     Rothman
     Rush
     Ryan (WI)
     Sabo
     Sanders
     Sawyer
     Schakowsky
     Serrano
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Stark
     Strickland
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Toomey
     Udall (CO)
     Velazquez
     Waters
     Weiner
     Woolsey
     Wu

                               NOES--331

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Armey
     Baca
     Bachus
     Baker
     Ballenger
     Barcia
     Barr
     Bartlett
     Bass
     Becerra
     Bentsen
     Bereuter
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Biggert
     Bilirakis
     Bishop
     Blagojevich
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bono
     Borski
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (FL)
     Brown (SC)
     Bryant
     Burr
     Buyer
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Camp
     Cannon
     Cantor
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Carson (OK)
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chambliss
     Clayton
     Clement
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Collins
     Combest
     Condit
     Cooksey
     Costello
     Cox
     Coyne
     Cramer
     Crane
     Crenshaw
     Crowley
     Cubin
     Culberson
     Cunningham
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (FL)
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Davis, Tom
     Deal
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     DeLay
     DeMint
     Diaz-Balart
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Dooley
     Doolittle
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Edwards
     Ehlers
     Emerson
     Engel
     English
     Etheridge
     Everett
     Flake
     Fletcher
     Foley
     Forbes
     Ford
     Fossella
     Frelinghuysen
     Frost
     Gallegly
     Ganske
     Gekas
     Gephardt
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Gonzalez
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Gordon
     Goss
     Graham
     Granger
     Graves
     Green (TX)
     Green (WI)
     Greenwood
     Grucci
     Gutierrez
     Gutknecht
     Hall (OH)
     Hall (TX)
     Hansen
     Harman
     Hart
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Herger
     Hill
     Hilleary
     Hinojosa
     Hobson
     Hoeffel
     Hoekstra
     Holden
     Holt
     Horn
     Hostettler
     Houghton
     Hoyer
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Hutchinson
     Hyde
     Inslee
     Isakson
     Israel
     Issa
     Istook
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Jenkins
     John
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Kanjorski
     Keller
     Kelly
     Kennedy (MN)
     Kerns
     Kilpatrick
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     LaHood
     Lampson
     Langevin
     Largent
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (GA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     Lipinski
     Lofgren
     Lowey
     Lucas (KY)
     Lucas (OK)
     Maloney (CT)
     Manzullo
     Mascara
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCrery
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Menendez
     Mica
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (FL)
     Miller, Gary
     Mollohan
     Moran (KS)
     Morella
     Murtha
     Myrick
     Napolitano
     Nethercutt
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Ortiz
     Osborne
     Ose
     Otter
     Oxley
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Pence
     Peterson (MN)
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     Phelps
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Pombo
     Pomeroy
     Portman
     Price (NC)
     Pryce (OH)
     Quinn
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Reyes
     Reynolds
     Riley
     Rodriguez
     Roemer
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Ross
     Roukema
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Ryun (KS)
     Sanchez
     Sandlin
     Saxton
     Scarborough
     Schaffer
     Schiff
     Schrock
     Scott
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Sherman
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shows
     Shuster
     Simmons
     Simpson
     Skeen
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (MI)
     Snyder
     Solis
     Souder
     Spence
     Spratt
     Stearns
     Stenholm
     Stump
     Stupak
     Sununu
     Sweeney
     Tancredo
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Tauzin
     Taylor (MS)
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thornberry
     Thune
     Thurman
     Tiahrt
     Towns
     Traficant
     Turner
     Udall (NM)
     Upton
     Visclosky
     Vitter
     Walden
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Watkins (OK)
     Watson (CA)
     Watt (NC)
     Watts (OK)
     Waxman
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Wexler
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson
     Wolf
     Wynn
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Barton
     Burton
     Ehrlich
     Leach
     Platts
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Smith (TX)
     Thomas
     Young (AK)

                              {time}  1001

  Mrs. KELLY changed her vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  Mr. KIND and Mr. FRANK changed their vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                          personal explanation

  Mr. EHRLICH. Mr. Chairman, on rollcall Nos. 199, 200, 201, and 202, I 
was unable to vote. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no'' on 
all four.


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Bonior

  The CHAIRMAN. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded 
vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. 
Bonior), on which further proceedings were postponed, and which the 
ayes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment offered by Mr. Bonior:
       At the end of the bill, insert after the last section 
     (preceding the short title) the following new section:
       Sec.  . No funds provided in this Act may be expended to 
     issue any permit or other authorization under section 10 of 
     the Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1899 (33 U.S.C. 
     403), or to issue any other lease, license, permit, approval, 
     or right-of-way, for any drilling to extract or explore for 
     oil or gas from the land beneath the water in any of Lake 
     Huron, Lake Ontario, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, Lake Superior, 
     Lake Saint Clair, the Saint Mary's River, the Saint Clair 
     River, the Detroit River, the Niagara River, or the Saint 
     Lawrence River from Lake Ontario to the 45th parallel of 
     latitude.


                             Recorded Vote

  The CHAIRMAN. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The CHAIRMAN. This will be a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 265, 
noes 157, not voting 11, as follows:

[[Page H3721]]

                             [Roll No. 203]

                               AYES--265

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Allen
     Andrews
     Baca
     Bachus
     Baird
     Baldacci
     Baldwin
     Barcia
     Barrett
     Bartlett
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Biggert
     Bilirakis
     Bishop
     Blagojevich
     Blumenauer
     Boehlert
     Bonior
     Borski
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brown (OH)
     Brown (SC)
     Camp
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Carson (IN)
     Castle
     Chabot
     Clay
     Clayton
     Clement
     Clyburn
     Condit
     Conyers
     Costello
     Coyne
     Cramer
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (FL)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Davis, Tom
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Deutsch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dooley
     Doyle
     Ehlers
     Ehrlich
     Engel
     English
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Evans
     Farr
     Fattah
     Ferguson
     Filner
     Foley
     Ford
     Fossella
     Frank
     Frost
     Ganske
     Gephardt
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Goss
     Green (WI)
     Greenwood
     Gutierrez
     Gutknecht
     Hall (OH)
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Hill
     Hilleary
     Hilliard
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hoeffel
     Hoekstra
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley
     Hoyer
     Hutchinson
     Hyde
     Inslee
     Isakson
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones (NC)
     Jones (OH)
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kelly
     Kennedy (MN)
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     Kind (WI)
     Kirk
     Kleczka
     Kucinich
     LaFalce
     LaHood
     Langevin
     Lantos
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     LaTourette
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Lofgren
     Lowey
     Lucas (KY)
     Luther
     Maloney (CT)
     Maloney (NY)
     Markey
     Mascara
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (MO)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McIntyre
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Menendez
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller, George
     Mink
     Moore
     Moran (VA)
     Morella
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Ney
     Nussle
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Ose
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peterson (MN)
     Petri
     Phelps
     Pomeroy
     Portman
     Price (NC)
     Quinn
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Rangel
     Regula
     Reyes
     Reynolds
     Rivers
     Rodriguez
     Roemer
     Ross
     Rothman
     Roukema
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Ryan (WI)
     Sabo
     Sanchez
     Sanders
     Sawyer
     Scarborough
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Scott
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Shaw
     Shays
     Sherman
     Simmons
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Snyder
     Solis
     Spratt
     Stark
     Stearns
     Strickland
     Stupak
     Sweeney
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thurman
     Tierney
     Towns
     Traficant
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Upton
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Waters
     Watson (CA)
     Watt (NC)
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Weldon (FL)
     Weller
     Wexler
     Wilson
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn
     Young (FL)

                               NOES--157

     Aderholt
     Akin
     Armey
     Baker
     Ballenger
     Barr
     Bass
     Bentsen
     Bereuter
     Blunt
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bono
     Brady (TX)
     Bryant
     Burr
     Buyer
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Cannon
     Cantor
     Carson (OK)
     Chambliss
     Coble
     Collins
     Combest
     Cooksey
     Cox
     Crane
     Crenshaw
     Cubin
     Culberson
     Cunningham
     Deal
     DeLay
     DeMint
     Doolittle
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Edwards
     Emerson
     Everett
     Flake
     Forbes
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Gekas
     Gibbons
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Graham
     Granger
     Graves
     Green (TX)
     Grucci
     Hall (TX)
     Hansen
     Hart
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Herger
     Hobson
     Horn
     Hostettler
     Houghton
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Issa
     Istook
     Jefferson
     Jenkins
     John
     Johnson, Sam
     Keller
     Kerns
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Lampson
     Largent
     Latham
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     Lucas (OK)
     Manzullo
     McCrery
     McKeon
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller, Gary
     Mollohan
     Moran (KS)
     Murtha
     Myrick
     Nethercutt
     Northup
     Norwood
     Osborne
     Otter
     Oxley
     Paul
     Pence
     Peterson (PA)
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Pombo
     Pryce (OH)
     Rehberg
     Riley
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Royce
     Ryun (KS)
     Sandlin
     Saxton
     Schaffer
     Schrock
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shows
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Skeen
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (WA)
     Souder
     Spence
     Stenholm
     Stump
     Sununu
     Tancredo
     Tauzin
     Taylor (MS)
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thornberry
     Thune
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Toomey
     Turner
     Vitter
     Walden
     Watkins (OK)
     Watts (OK)
     Weldon (PA)
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wolf

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Barton
     Burton
     Fletcher
     Leach
     Platts
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Smith (TX)
     Thomas
     Young (AK)

                              {time}  1010

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to the order of the House of Wednesday, June 
27, 2001, no further amendments to the bill shall be in order except 
the following amendments, which may be offered only by the Member 
designated in the request, or a designee, shall be considered as read, 
shall be debatable for the time specified, equally divided and 
controlled by the proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to 
amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for a division of the 
question:
  The amendment by the gentleman from Ohio, Mr. Traficant, regarding 
drilling, for 20 minutes;
  The amendment by the gentlewoman from Nevada, Ms. Berkley, regarding 
nuclear waste, for 20 minutes;
  The amendment by the gentleman from Ohio, Mr. Traficant, regarding 
Buy American, for 10 minutes;
  The amendment by the gentlewoman from Texas, Ms. Eddie Bernice 
Johnson, regarding bio/environmental research, for 10 minutes;
  The amendment by the gentlewoman from New York, Mrs. Kelly, regarding 
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Inspector General salaries and 
expenses, for 10 minutes; and
  The amendment by the gentleman from Florida, Mr. Davis, regarding the 
Gulf Stream natural gas pipeline, for 60 minutes.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent that the 
remainder of the bill through page 39, line 18, be considered as read, 
printed in the Record, and open to amendment at any time.
  The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from 
Alabama?
  Mr. VISCLOSKY. Mr. Chairman, reserving the right to object, my 
understanding is that will still limit the universe to those amendments 
announced by the chairman, with the same time limits. It will not open 
it up to any new amendments.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. VISCLOSKY. I yield to the gentleman from Alabama.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, the gentleman is correct.
  The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from 
Alabama?
  There was no objection.
  The text of the remainder of the bill through page 39, line 18, is as 
follows:

                    Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation

       For Department of Energy expenses, including the purchase, 
     construction and acquisition of plant and capital equipment 
     and other incidental expenses necessary for atomic energy 
     defense, defense nuclear nonproliferation activities, in 
     carrying out the purposes of the Department of Energy 
     Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.), including the 
     acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any 
     facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, 
     or expansion, $845,341,000, to remain available until 
     expended.

                             Naval Reactors

       For Department of Energy expenses necessary for naval 
     reactors activities to carry out the Department of Energy 
     Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.), including the 
     acquisition (by purchase, condemnation, construction, or 
     otherwise) of real property, plant, and capital equipment, 
     facilities, and facility expansion, $688,045,000, to remain 
     available until expended.

                      Office of the Administrator

       For necessary expenses of the Office of the Administrator 
     of the National Nuclear Security Administration, including 
     official reception and representation expenses (not to exceed 
     $12,000), $10,000,000, to remain available until expended.

               ENVIRONMENTAL AND OTHER DEFENSE ACTIVITIES

         Defense Environmental Restoration and Waste Management

       For Department of Energy expenses, including the purchase, 
     construction and acquisition of plant and capital equipment 
     and other expenses necessary for atomic energy defense 
     environmental restoration and waste management activities in 
     carrying out the purposes of the Department of Energy 
     Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.), including the 
     acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any 
     facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, 
     or expansion; and the purchase of not to exceed 30 passenger 
     motor vehicles, of which 27 shall be for replacement only, 
     $5,174,539,000, to remain available until expended.

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                  Defense Facilities Closure Projects

       For expenses of the Department of Energy to accelerate the 
     closure of defense environmental management sites, including 
     the purchase, construction and acquisition of plant and 
     capital equipment and other necessary expenses, 
     $1,092,878,000, to remain available until expended.

             Defense Environmental Management Privatization

       For Department of Energy expenses for privatization 
     projects necessary for atomic energy defense environmental 
     management activities authorized by the Department of Energy 
     Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.), $143,208,000, to 
     remain available until expended.

                        Other Defense Activities

       For Department of Energy expenses, including the purchase, 
     construction and acquisition of plant and capital equipment 
     and other expenses necessary for atomic energy defense, other 
     defense activities, in carrying out the purposes of the 
     Department of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et 
     seq.), including the acquisition or condemnation of any real 
     property or any facility or for plant or facility 
     acquisition, construction, or expansion, $487,464,000, to 
     remain available until expended.

                     Defense Nuclear Waste Disposal

       For nuclear waste disposal activities to carry out the 
     purposes of Public Law 97-425, as amended, including the 
     acquisition of real property or facility construction or 
     expansion, $310,000,000, to remain available until expended.

                    POWER MARKETING ADMINISTRATIONS

                  Bonneville Power Administration Fund

       Expenditures from the Bonneville Power Administration Fund, 
     established pursuant to Public Law 93-454, are approved for 
     official reception and representation expenses in an amount 
     not to exceed $1,500.
       During fiscal year 2002, no new direct loan obligations may 
     be made.

      Operation and Maintenance, Southeastern Power Administration

       For necessary expenses of operation and maintenance of 
     power transmission facilities and of marketing electric power 
     and energy, including transmission wheeling and ancillary 
     services, pursuant to the provisions of section 5 of the 
     Flood Control Act of 1944 (16 U.S.C. 825s), as applied to the 
     southeastern power area, $4,891,000, to remain available 
     until expended; in addition, notwithstanding the provisions 
     of 31 U.S.C. 3302, up to $8,000,000 collected by the 
     Southeastern Power Administration pursuant to the Flood 
     Control Act to recover purchase power and wheeling expenses 
     shall be credited to this account as offsetting collections, 
     to remain available until expended for the sole purpose of 
     making purchase power and wheeling expenditures.

      Operation and Maintenance, Southwestern Power Administration

       For necessary expenses of operation and maintenance of 
     power transmission facilities and of marketing electric power 
     and energy, and for construction and acquisition of 
     transmission lines, substations and appurtenant facilities, 
     and for administrative expenses, including official reception 
     and representation expenses in an amount not to exceed $1,500 
     in carrying out the provisions of section 5 of the Flood 
     Control Act of 1944 (16 U.S.C. 825s), as applied to the 
     southwestern power area, $28,038,000, to remain available 
     until expended; in addition, notwithstanding the provisions 
     of 31 U.S.C. 3302, not to exceed $5,200,000 in 
     reimbursements, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
     That up to $1,512,000 collected by the Southwestern Power 
     Administration pursuant to the Flood Control Act to recover 
     purchase power and wheeling expenses shall be credited to 
     this account as offsetting collections, to remain available 
     until expended for the sole purpose of making purchase power 
     and wheeling expenditures.

 Construction, Rehabilitation, Operation and Maintenance, Western Area 
                          Power Administration

       For carrying out the functions authorized by title III, 
     section 302(a)(1)(E) of the Act of August 4, 1977 (42 U.S.C. 
     7152), and other related activities including conservation 
     and renewable resources programs as authorized, including 
     official reception and representation expenses in an amount 
     not to exceed $1,500, $172,165,000, to remain available until 
     expended, of which $166,651,000 shall be derived from the 
     Department of the Interior Reclamation Fund: Provided, That 
     of the amount herein appropriated, $1,227,000 is for deposit 
     into the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Account 
     pursuant to title IV of the Reclamation Projects 
     Authorization and Adjustment Act of 1992: Provided further, 
     That up to $152,624,000 collected by the Western Area Power 
     Administration pursuant to the Flood Control Act of 1944 and 
     the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 to recover purchase power 
     and wheeling expenses shall be credited to this account as 
     offsetting collections, to remain available until expended 
     for the sole purpose of making purchase power and wheeling 
     expenditures.

           Falcon and Amistad Operating and Maintenance Fund

       For operation, maintenance, and emergency costs for the 
     hydroelectric facilities at the Falcon and Amistad Dams, 
     $2,663,000, to remain available until expended, and to be 
     derived from the Falcon and Amistad Operating and Maintenance 
     Fund of the Western Area Power Administration, as provided in 
     section 423 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, 
     Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995.

                  Federal Energy Regulatory Commission


                         salaries and expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Federal Energy Regulatory 
     Commission to carry out the provisions of the Department of 
     Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.), including 
     services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, the hire of 
     passenger motor vehicles, and official reception and 
     representation expenses (not to exceed $3,000), $181,155,000, 
     to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
     notwithstanding any other provision of law, not to exceed 
     $181,155,000 of revenues from fees and annual charges, and 
     other services and collections in fiscal year 2002 shall be 
     retained and used for necessary expenses in this account, and 
     shall remain available until expended: Provided further, That 
     the sum herein appropriated from the General Fund shall be 
     reduced as revenues are received during fiscal year 2002 so 
     as to result in a final fiscal year 2002 appropriation from 
     the General Fund estimated at not more than $0: Provided 
     further, That none of the funds made available to the Federal 
     Energy Regulatory Commission in this or any other Act may be 
     used to authorize construction of the Gulfstream Natural Gas 
     Project.

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

                          DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

       Sec. 301. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
     may be used to award a management and operating contract, or 
     award a significant extension or expansion to an existing 
     management and operating contract, unless such contract is 
     awarded using competitive procedures or the Secretary of 
     Energy grants, on a case-by-case basis, a waiver to allow for 
     such a deviation. The Secretary may not delegate the 
     authority to grant such a waiver.
       (b) At least 60 days before a contract award for which the 
     Secretary intends to grant such a waiver, the Secretary shall 
     submit to the Subcommittees on Energy and Water Development 
     of the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
     Representatives and the Senate a report notifying the 
     Subcommittees of the waiver and setting forth, in 
     specificity, the substantive reasons why the Secretary 
     believes the requirement for competition should be waived for 
     this particular award.
       Sec. 302. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be 
     used to--
       (1) develop or implement a workforce restructuring plan 
     that covers employees of the Department of Energy; or
       (2) provide enhanced severance payments or other benefits 
     for employees of the Department of Energy,

     under section 3161 of the National Defense Authorization Act 
     for Fiscal Year 1993 (Public Law 102-484; 42 U.S.C. 7274h).
       Sec. 303. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be 
     used to augment the $21,900,000 made available for obligation 
     by this Act for severance payments and other benefits and 
     community assistance grants under section 3161 of the 
     National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 
     (Public Law 102-484; 42 U.S.C. 7274h) unless the Department 
     of Energy submits a reprogramming request subject to approval 
     by the appropriate Congressional committees.
       Sec. 304. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be 
     used to prepare or initiate Requests For Proposals (RFPs) for 
     a program if the program has not been funded by Congress.


                   (transfers of unexpended balances)

       Sec. 305. The unexpended balances of prior appropriations 
     provided for activities in this Act may be transferred to 
     appropriation accounts for such activities established 
     pursuant to this title. Balances so transferred may be merged 
     with funds in the applicable established accounts and 
     thereafter may be accounted for as one fund for the same time 
     period as originally enacted.
       Sec. 306. None of the funds in this or any other Act for 
     the Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration may 
     be used to enter into any agreement to perform energy 
     efficiency services outside the legally defined Bonneville 
     service territory, with the exception of services provided 
     internationally, including services provided on a 
     reimbursable basis, unless the Administrator certifies in 
     advance that such services are not available from private 
     sector businesses.
       Sec. 307. None of the funds appropriated in other than 
     Energy and Water Development Appropriations Acts may be used 
     for Department of Energy laboratory directed research and 
     development (LDRD).
       Sec. 308. Not later than March 31, 2002, the Secretary of 
     Energy, after consultation with the Nuclear Regulatory 
     Commission and the Occupational Safety and Health 
     Administration, shall transmit to the Committee on 
     Appropriations, the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and the 
     Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House of 
     Representatives, and to the Committee on Appropriations, the 
     Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, the Committee on 
     Environment and Public Works, and the Committee on Health, 
     Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate, a report 
     containing an implementation plan for the transfer, on 
     October 1, 2002--
       (1) from the Department of Energy to the Nuclear Regulatory 
     Commission of regulatory authority over nuclear safety at the

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     Department of Energy's science laboratories; and
       (2) from the Department of Energy to the Occupational 
     Safety and Health Administration of regulatory authority over 
     worker safety at such laboratories.

     Out of funds appropriated by this Act for Environment, 
     Safety, and Health, the Secretary of Energy shall transfer 
     $4,000,000 to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and $120,000 
     to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. For 
     purposes of this section, the Department of Energy's science 
     laboratories are the Argonne National Laboratory, the 
     Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Lawrence Berkeley 
     National Laboratory, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the 
     Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the Ames Laboratory, 
     the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the Princeton 
     Plasma Physics Laboratory, the Stanford Linear Accelerator 
     Center, and the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator 
     Facility.
       Sec. 309. When the Department of Energy makes a user 
     facility available to universities and other potential users, 
     or seeks input from universities and other potential users 
     regarding significant characteristics or equipment in a user 
     facility or a proposed user facility, the Department shall 
     ensure broad public notice of such availability or such need 
     for input to universities and other potential users. When the 
     Department of Energy considers the participation of a 
     university or other potential user in the establishment or 
     operation of a user facility, the Department shall employ 
     full and open competition in selecting such a participant. 
     For purposes of this section, the term ``user facility'' 
     includes, but is not limited to: a user facility as described 
     in section 2203(a)(2) of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (42 
     U.S.C. 13503(a)(2)); a National Nuclear Security 
     Administration Defense Programs Technology Deployment Center/
     User Facility; and any other Department facility designated 
     by the Department as a user facility.

                                TITLE IV

                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

                    APPALACHIAN REGIONAL COMMISSION

       For expenses necessary to carry out the programs authorized 
     by the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965, as 
     amended notwithstanding section 405 of said Act, and, for 
     necessary expenses for the Federal Co-Chairman and the 
     alternate on the Appalachian Regional Commission, for payment 
     of the Federal share of the administrative expenses of the 
     Commission, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
     3109, and hire of passenger motor vehicles, $71,290,000, to 
     remain available until expended.

                DEFENSE NUCLEAR FACILITIES SAFETY BOARD

                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Defense Nuclear Facilities 
     Safety Board in carrying out activities authorized by the 
     Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended by Public Law 100-456, 
     section 1441, $18,500,000, to remain available until 
     expended.

                     NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Commission in carrying out 
     the purposes of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, as 
     amended, and the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, 
     including official representation expenses (not to exceed 
     $15,000), and purchase of promotional items for use in the 
     recruitment of individuals for employment, $516,900,000, to 
     remain available until expended: Provided, That of the amount 
     appropriated herein, $23,650,000 shall be derived from the 
     Nuclear Waste Fund: Provided further, That revenues from 
     licensing fees, inspection services, and other services and 
     collections estimated at $473,520,000 in fiscal year 2002 
     shall be retained and used for necessary salaries and 
     expenses in this account, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, and 
     shall remain available until expended: Provided further, That 
     the sum herein appropriated shall be reduced by the amount of 
     revenues received during fiscal year 2002 so as to result in 
     a final fiscal year 2002 appropriation estimated at not more 
     than $43,380,000.

                      Office of Inspector General

       For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General 
     in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act 
     of 1978, as amended, $6,180,000, to remain available until 
     expended: Provided, That revenues from licensing fees, 
     inspection services, and other services and collections 
     estimated at $5,933,000 in fiscal year 2002 shall be retained 
     and be available until expended, for necessary salaries and 
     expenses in this account notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302: 
     Provided further, That the sum herein appropriated shall be 
     reduced by the amount of revenues received during fiscal year 
     2002 so as to result in a final fiscal year 2002 
     appropriation estimated at not more than $247,000.

                  NUCLEAR WASTE TECHNICAL REVIEW BOARD

                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Nuclear Waste Technical 
     Review Board, as authorized by Public Law 100-203, section 
     5051, $3,100,000, to be derived from the Nuclear Waste Fund, 
     and to remain available until expended.

                                TITLE V

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 501. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be 
     used in any way, directly or indirectly, to influence 
     congressional action on any legislation or appropriation 
     matters pending before Congress, other than to communicate to 
     Members of Congress as described in 18 U.S.C. 1913.
       Sec. 502. (a) Purchase of American-Made Equipment and 
     Products.--It is the sense of the Congress that, to the 
     greatest extent practicable, all equipment and products 
     purchased with funds made available in this Act should be 
     American-made.
        (b) Notice Requirement.--In providing financial assistance 
     to, or entering into any contract with, any entity using 
     funds made available in this Act, the head of each Federal 
     agency, to the greatest extent practicable, shall provide to 
     such entity a notice describing the statement made in 
     subsection (a) by the Congress.
        (c) Prohibition of Contracts With Persons Falsely Labeling 
     Products as Made in America.--If it has been finally 
     determined by a court or Federal agency that any person 
     intentionally affixed a label bearing a ``Made in America'' 
     inscription, or any inscription with the same meaning, to any 
     product sold in or shipped to the United States that is not 
     made in the United States, the person shall be ineligible to 
     receive any contract or subcontract made with funds made 
     available in this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, 
     and ineligibility procedures described in sections 9.400 
     through 9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations.
       Sec. 503. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used to determine the final 
     point of discharge for the interceptor drain for the San Luis 
     Unit until development by the Secretary of the Interior and 
     the State of California of a plan, which shall conform to the 
     water quality standards of the State of California as 
     approved by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
     Agency, to minimize any detrimental effect of the San Luis 
     drainage waters.
       (b) The costs of the Kesterson Reservoir Cleanup Program 
     and the costs of the San Joaquin Valley Drainage Program 
     shall be classified by the Secretary of the Interior as 
     reimbursable or nonreimbursable and collected until fully 
     repaid pursuant to the ``Cleanup Program--Alternative 
     Repayment Plan'' and the ``SJVDP--Alternative Repayment 
     Plan'' described in the report entitled ``Repayment Report, 
     Kesterson Reservoir Cleanup Program and San Joaquin Valley 
     Drainage Program, February 1995'', prepared by the Department 
     of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation. Any future 
     obligations of funds by the United States relating to, or 
     providing for, drainage service or drainage studies for the 
     San Luis Unit shall be fully reimbursable by San Luis Unit 
     beneficiaries of such service or studies pursuant to Federal 
     reclamation law.

  The CHAIRMAN. Are there any points of order to any of the sections so 
opened?


                             Point of Order

  Mr. LARGENT. Mr. Chairman, I make a point of order.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman will state his point of order.
  Mr. LARGENT. Mr. Chairman, I make a point of order that section 308 
of the bill, beginning on page 32, line 24, and ending on page 34, line 
6, violates clause 2 of rule XXI of the rules of the House of 
Representatives prohibiting legislation on appropriations bills.
  As I understand the intent of section 308, the language in question 
directs the Secretary of Energy to write a report to Congress on a plan 
to transfer certain regulatory functions in DOE science laboratories to 
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Occupational Safety and 
Health Administration. My reading of the amendment, however, goes much 
further. I think that the language contained in the bill would actually 
effectuate the transfer of these functions to the NRC and OSHA.
  In any event, Mr. Chairman, the language of section 308 clearly 
constitutes legislation on an appropriations bill in violation of 
clause 2 of rule XXI of the rules of the House because it changes 
current law, where no plan to transfer these functions is present.
  I therefore insist on my point of order.
  The CHAIRMAN. Does any other Member care to be heard on the point of 
order?
  Hearing none, for the reasons stated by the gentleman from Oklahoma 
(Mr. Largent), the point of order is sustained, and section 308 of the 
bill will be stricken.
  The CHAIRMAN. Are there amendments to the bill?


                Amendment No. 1 Offered by Mr. Traficant

  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment No. 1 offered by Mr. Traficant:
       At the end of the bill, insert after the last section 
     (preceding the short title) the following new section:

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       Sec.   . None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available in this Act may be made available to any person or 
     entity convicted of violating the Buy American Act (41 U.S.C. 
     10a-10c).

  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to the order of the House of Wednesday, June 
27, 2001, the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Traficant) and a Member opposed 
each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Traficant).
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Mr. Chairman, this is an amendment that has been offered and accepted 
on all appropriations bills. It is good for America.
  I will yield to the distinguished chairman of the subcommittee, who 
has done a fine job on the bill, and would hope that he would also look 
favorably at my next amendment as well.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. TRAFICANT. I yield to the gentleman from Alabama.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Mr. Chairman, certainly this is something not only that we forgot to 
put in, which should have been put in, but we appreciate the gentleman 
bringing it to our attention and allowing us to be a part of his effort 
to continue to encourage companies to buy American.
  We have no objection to this amendment and would happily accept it.
  Mr. VISCLOSKY. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. TRAFICANT. I yield to my good friend and classmate, the gentleman 
from Indiana.
  Mr. VISCLOSKY. Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the gentleman yielding.
  On behalf of all the steelworkers I represent, I am also happy to 
accept the gentleman's amendment.
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Chairman, I ask for an aye vote, and I yield back 
the balance of my time.
  The CHAIRMAN. Does any Member claim time in opposition to the 
amendment?
  Hearing none, the question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Traficant).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                Amendment No. 5 Offered by Mr. Traficant

  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment No. 5 offered by Mr. Traficant:
       At the end of the bill (before the short title) add the 
     following section:
       Sec.   . No fund in this Act may be used to drill for oil 
     and gas, through, in or under, the Mosquite Creek Reservoir, 
     Trumbull County, Ohio.

  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to the order of the House of Wednesday, June 
27, 2001, the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Traficant) and a Member opposed 
each will control 10 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Traficant).

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  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  I want to give a little background on this amendment, and I want the 
appropriators to know that I have gone three times to the authorizing 
committee. This is the only drinking water supply for 125,000 of my 
constituents. The Senators, both Republicans, and every mayor supports 
stopping the banning of slant drilling under a lake when there are so 
many natural resources in that region.
  Let me tell my colleagues about the hypocrisy. Our Department of 
Natural Resources will not allow any drilling on adjacent wetland in 
the Mesquite Reservoir because there are trumpet swans and Canadian 
geese habitat. I have 125,000 people that depend on this for drinking 
water with no backup water supply. And just on June 3, not counting 
last year, we had an earthquake of 3.0 in the district of the gentleman 
from Ohio (Mr. LaTourette), district to the north, not far from this 
lake.
  Now, I have supported energy development. I have tried not to be 
hypocritical, because everybody says, not in my backyard. But when I 
believe that there are people, as we did in Florida, when there is 
fresh water, as we have done with the Great Lakes; God almighty, this 
is just common sense, and I did not have an amendment for this bill 
until I had seen the efforts made at the Great Lakes, and I worked 3 
years through the authorizing committee.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. TRAFICANT. I yield to the gentleman from Alabama.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, the gentleman mentioned the word 
``hypocrisy,'' and the gentleman knows how opposed I am to any form of 
hypocrisy. If indeed it is as the gentleman says that this could 
imperil the drinking water of the gentleman's constituents, we will 
have no part of that. We will be happy to accept the gentleman's 
amendment.
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Chairman, I am very proud and honored that the 
gentleman has taken that position.
  Mr. VISCLOSKY. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. TRAFICANT. I yield to the gentleman from Indiana.
  Mr. VISCLOSKY. Mr. Chairman, I would also be happy to join with the 
Chair and announce my acceptance of the amendment from my distinguished 
classmate of the State of Ohio.
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Chairman, I appreciate that.
  In closing, I would just like to say that I will not call for a 
recorded vote, but I would like to see the eyes of the distinguished 
gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan), the powerful chairman, and I 
want a commitment, because I know the gentleman from Florida (Mr. 
Young) has fought hard to preserve fresh water drinking supplies and 
people close to drilling. I am not going to ask for a vote, with an 
understanding that my language will be preserved and protected as best 
as possible in conference.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. TRAFICANT. I yield to the gentleman from Alabama.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, it will be preserved as best as possible.
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Chairman, that is good enough for me. The 
gentleman's word has always been good enough. I thank the Congress for 
considering the people in my district.
  Mr. Chairman, I ask for an ``aye'' vote.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Traficant).
  The amendment was agreed to.
  The CHAIRMAN. Are there further amendments?


                    Amendment Offered by Ms. Berkley

  Ms. BERKLEY. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment offered by Ms. Berkley:
       Page 37, after line 11, insert the following:

                               TITLE IV-A

                  NUCLEAR WASTE TECHNICAL REVIEW BOARD

                         Salaries and Expenses

       For additional expenses of the Nuclear Waste Technical 
     Review Board, to be derived from the Nuclear Waste Fund, for 
     the Board (1) to evaluate the technical and scientific 
     validity of activities undertaken by the Secretary of Energy 
     relating to the packaging and transportation of high-level 
     radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, as authorized by 
     section 503 of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (42 
     U.S.C. 10263), (2) to hold hearings, sit and act, take 
     testimony, and receive evidence, as authorized by section 
     504(a) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 10264(a)), and (3) to request 
     the Secretary (or any contractor of the Secretary) to provide 
     the Board with records, files, papers, data, and information, 
     as authorized by section 504(b) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 
     10264(b)); and the aggregate amount otherwise provided in 
     this Act for ``Energy Programs--Nuclear Waste Disposal'' is 
     hereby reduced by; $500,000.

  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to the order of the House of Wednesday, June 
27, 2001, the gentlewoman from Nevada (Ms. Berkley) and a Member 
opposed each will control 10 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Nevada (Ms. Berkley).
  Ms. BERKLEY. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I rise today to offer an amendment regarding the transportation of 
high-level nuclear waste. As we are all aware, the Department of Energy 
is nearing completion on its report on whether Yucca Mountain should be 
licensed as the Nation's repository for

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high-level nuclear waste. The DOE has written lengthy reports on 
hundreds of issues relating to the project, but has remained eerily 
silent on the one issue that affects almost every Member of this House: 
the transportation of nuclear waste across the country.
  If the proposed Yucca Mountain repository is approved, the transfer 
of high-level nuclear waste would necessitate the shipment of over 
77,000 tons of lethal nuclear waste through at least 43 States. The DOE 
has itself recognized that such transfers may result in as many as 300 
accidents with potentially catastrophic consequences, yet it has not 
published national shipping routes. Members of Congress and the 
American public have a right to know if high-level radioactive waste is 
going to be trucked through their districts, past their homes and 
hospitals, their children's schools, and on their neighborhood roads, 
and they have a right to know what kind of impact these shipments will 
have on their communities.
  That is why I am offering an amendment that would transfer $500,000 
to the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board to help them encourage the 
DOE to publicize the transportation routes. It is only a matter of 
common sense and sound public policy that this body would seek the 
assurance of a review board composed of our country's top nuclear 
scientists on a matter of such importance and so fraught with danger 
for our citizens. It seems only appropriate to ensure that the board is 
given the resources it needs to hold hearings, take testimony, and 
receive evidence to evaluate the DOE's transportation routes. It is, 
after all, vitally important that Members of Congress understand fully 
the potential impact on our communities, our constituents and on the 
environment.
  This amendment builds on the language of the committee report 
acknowledging the serious public concern with shipping nuclear waste 
across the country by road and rail and the need to select 
transportation routes. I want to thank the chairman and the ranking 
member for their efforts in this regard. Our amendment helps move 
forward the committee's intent by employing the Nuclear Waste Technical 
Review Board to analyze the routes and their potential impacts and to 
further encourage the DOE to make public, make public their proposed 
routes.
  Let me be clear. This is not a vote on whether or not one supports a 
nuclear repository at Yucca Mountain. This amendment is about whether 
Members of Congress and our constituents have a right to know, the 
right to know whether nuclear waste is going to be traveling through 
our communities. A vote for this amendment is a vote in favor of 
protecting our neighborhoods from bureaucrats with too little 
information and too much secrecy. This is, in the end, about the 
public's right to know.
  Mr. Chairman, I strongly urge my colleagues to support this 
amendment. Again, I want to thank the chairman and the ranking member 
for their work.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I reluctantly rise in opposition to the 
gentlewoman's amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  First let me say to the gentlewoman that we are all concerned about 
the transportation part of the ultimate storage at Yucca Mountain. 
During the last month, I have traveled to Yucca Mountain and looked at 
the facility. We have discussed the transportation part of the storage 
site at Yucca Mountain, and we agree with the gentlewoman that we 
should be prepared. However, we have ample time to be prepared.
  For the gentlewoman's information, we already have provided $3.1 
million in the bill for the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board. They 
tell us they can live with that much money, and I really do not think 
that taking another $500,000 and putting it into that study is going to 
enhance the solution to the gentlewoman's problems at all. Our major 
concern is that we have a safe conveyance. If, indeed, Yucca Mountain 
is approved, we need some safe capability of delivering the products 
through the various States and through the State of Nevada to the site.
  So I would agree with the gentlewoman that we should be concerned 
about it, and we are concerned about it. We brought this up in our 
committee hearings, and the Department of Energy told us that they had 
opted to defer more serious transportation planning until after the 
completion of the review of final site. The final determination has not 
yet been made. What the Department is saying is that as soon as final 
determination is made, it is still going to be 6, 7, maybe 9 years 
before the repository opens. It is going to take a long time, we will 
still have ample time to study the transportation possibilities. I 
think that at this time putting an additional $500,000 into a review 
board that really does not need the money is not the answer to the 
gentlewoman's problems.
  So I would respectfully disagree with the gentlewoman's amendment.
  Ms. BERKLEY. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. CALLAHAN. I yield to the gentlewoman from Nevada.
  Ms. BERKLEY. Mr. Chairman, I thank the distinguished gentleman.
  I think the gentleman is making my point for me, and I appreciate the 
fact that you have come to Nevada and toured Yucca Mountain. The fact 
of the matter is the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board says they do 
not need the money because they do not have anything to study now 
because the DOE has not offered the trade routes. The reality of the 
situation is that the people in this House, our colleagues, have a 
right to know and their constituents have a right to know if the DOE 
and our government is planning to use their roads through their 
neighborhoods, through their towns, to transport 77,000 tons of the 
most toxic nuclear material known to mankind.
  This is a right-to-know issue, and the DOE's feet should be held to 
the fire, and if giving another half a million dollars to the technical 
review board so that they can force the DOE to publish those trade 
routes, I think that is a very important thing.
  Also, the committee language, with all due respect, says that they 
should start doing the trade routes in the State of Nevada. It is my 
contention that we are doing this a little bass-ackwards. We should not 
be doing Nevada first, we should be doing all of the transportation 
routes getting to Nevada, and Nevada should be the last leg of the 
journey, not the first.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, reclaiming my time, we must decide on 
whether or not that is going to definitely be the site. Once that 
determination is made, there will be ample time to provide ample 
resources to the review board to make certain that the public is fully 
aware of how the transportation needs are going to be met.
  So I think the gentlewoman is on the right track; I think she is just 
a little early, because in a sense, it is an admission that it is going 
to happen.
  Mr. VISCLOSKY. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. CALLAHAN. I yield to the gentleman from Indiana.
  Mr. VISCLOSKY. Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the gentleman yielding, and 
I also rise in opposition to the amendment. I appreciate the 
gentlewoman's concern, but I would also voice the opinion that it is 
very premature, because this is, after all, about Yucca Mountain, and 
the site has not been decided upon. The chairman mentioned 6, 7 years. 
It might be longer than that, and the gentlewoman also suggested that 
while language in the report that talks about the State of Nevada 
transportation problem, we should be concerned about other States.
  I would just read a sentence or two from the committee report from 
page 119. This is our language: ``The Department should use available 
funds in fiscal year 2002 to initiate the selection of transportation 
routes in Nevada and other States in cooperation with the States and to 
begin planning for construction of a rail line to the repository 
site.''
  So again, reluctantly, I also am very opposed to the gentlewoman's 
amendment.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. BERKLEY. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Markey).
  Mr. MARKEY. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding me 
this time.
  Now, the reason the gentlewoman is raising the issue is quite simple. 
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of all, we are told that this nuclear technology is so safe that none 
of us have to worry, none of us have to be concerned at all as the 
materials are transported down streets in our own communities. On the 
other hand, there is a law on the books which indemnifies, which makes 
sure that none of the companies that own the trucks or the trains are 
liable in the event of an accident.
  Well, that is not a good combination. One cannot say on the one hand 
it is safe and on the other hand say, well, we have to indemnify 
against any risks of the truck drivers and the train drivers. Who would 
want people careening through their neighborhoods with no insurance in 
large trucks, much less trucks or trains with nuclear materials there? 
So they become ``mobile Chernobyls,'' in a sense. They become these 
very dangerous vehicles.
  What the gentlewoman is saying is that we should have advanced 
knowledge of which routes are going to be taken, what the precautions 
are that are being put into place. It is just kind of a common-sense, 
anticipatory way of looking at these issues, especially since this 
recipe has been constructed, which could be an invitation to 
recklessness, to willful misconduct, to excessive drinking or drug-
taking by the truck drivers or the train conductors, because they are 
not liable for any accidents.

                              {time}  1030

  And that is why I think the gentlewoman is so concerned. And I think 
what this issue does is just help to spotlight how concerned all 
Americans should be if this material starts to move through their 
neighborhoods.
  Ms. BERKLEY. Mr. Chairman, may I inquire as to how much time I have 
remaining?
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentlewoman from Nevada (Ms. Berkley) has 4\1/2\ 
minutes remaining, and the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan) has 
5\1/2\ minutes remaining.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I urge a ``no'' vote, and I yield back 
the balance of my time.
  Ms. BERKLEY. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chairman, two nights ago this House passed legislation that would 
prohibit dangerous trucks coming to this country from Mexico. Certainly 
trucks containing nuclear waste going through our neighborhoods is more 
serious than dangerous Mexican trucks, which we prohibited from coming 
onto our highways.
  It seems to me there is not one of us that can go home to our 
constituents and say we voted down a piece of legislation that would 
demand that the Department of Energy actually publish the proposed 
transportation routes of 77,000 tons of toxic nuclear waste. This 
nuclear waste is going to be coming across all our neighborhoods, all 
of our towns, through our communities, through 43 States en route to 
Yucca Mountain, Nevada.
  Now, I appreciate the fact that both the chairman and the ranking 
member suggest that perhaps this is premature, but listening to what 
the administration has been saying with their new reliance on nuclear 
energy and the fact that in the committee language itself, although 
there has not been completion of the scientific study saying Yucca 
Mountain will be the Nation's repository, certainly nobody reading the 
signs can say that this country is not trying very hard to make Yucca 
Mountain, which has been selected as the only site, the one that is 
acceptable for nuclear waste. I might add, however, that it is not 
acceptable, and it is very apparent that it is not.
  The fact of the matter is that we have a right to know, and we have a 
right to protect our constituents. Our constituents, American citizens, 
have a right to know what their government intends to do. And I would 
like to hearken back to the nuclear atomic weapons tests that were 
conducted at the Nevada test site in the 1950s and the 1960s, when we 
were told there was absolutely no danger to detonating those atomic 
weapons in the middle of the Nevada desert. The fact of the matter is, 
every single, and let me repeat that, every single employee of the 
Nevada test site that worked on those atomic tests are all dying of 
cancer now and other horrible, heinous ailments. And that is because 
our Federal Government said, Don't worry, be happy; there is nothing 
wrong. This is a similar situation 50 years later, and we are hearing 
the exact same thing from our Federal Government.
  For this body not to stand up and protect each one of our 
constituents, and make sure that that nuclear waste and those trucks 
are not going to be barreling down our neighborhood streets I think is 
most irresponsible for anybody that does not support this legislation. 
This is the single most important issue to the people in Southern 
Nevada, the people that I represent. I again urge all of my colleagues 
to stand with us, stand with me, and make a determination to keep our 
neighborhoods, our schools, our hospitals, and the people that we 
represent safe.
  Mr. BACA. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the Berkley amendment to 
the Energy and Water FY 2002 Appropriations bill, H.R. 2311.
  We must study the problems associated with the transportation of 
nuclear waste and protect our communities.
  The likeliest routes will truck much of California's radioactive 
waste along Interstate 15 and along train tracks straight through San 
Bernardino County.
  It has been said that used fuel is so dangerous that the nuclear 
plants must isolate the fuel from human contact for 10,000 years. So 
why would we run the risk of shipping it through our backyards without 
the proper scientific research and before we have weighed all our 
options?
  Congress has spent billions of dollars on the Yucca Mountain storage 
site and it is still unknown whether this site is environmentally sound 
or not. Why should our tax dollars be spent and our health be put at 
risk without finding out all aspects of this issue? Scientific studies 
show that transporting such material has potential risks that could end 
in catastrophic disasters and yet no other option has been proposed.
  We must ensure the security of our community. Nuclear waste is a 
serious issue that must be handled very carefully and thoroughly. I am 
committed to protecting the health and environment of the 42nd district 
of California along with all the districts in the United States.
  Ms. BERKLEY. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from Nevada (Ms. Berkley).
  The question was taken; and the Chairman announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Ms. BERKLEY. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings 
on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Nevada (Ms. Berkley) 
will be postponed.


                    Amendment Offered by Mrs. Kelly

  Mrs. KELLY. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment offered by Mrs. Kelly:
       In title IV, in the item relating to ``Nuclear Regulatory 
     Commission--salaries and expenses'', after the second and 
     fourth dollar amounts, insert the following: ``(reduced by 
     $700,000)''.
       In title IV, in the item relating to ``Nuclear Regulatory 
     Commission--office of inspector general'', after the first 
     and second dollar amounts, insert the following: ``(increased 
     by $700,000)''.

  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to the order of the House of Wednesday, June 
27, 2001, the gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Kelly) and a Member 
opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Kelly).
  Mrs. KELLY. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise for the purpose of entering into this colloquy 
with the distinguished chairman of the committee, the gentleman from 
Alabama (Mr. Callahan).
  I wish to discuss the importance of providing additional funding for 
the NRC Inspector General. I feel that providing the Inspector General 
with more resources will help the NRC better perform its responsibility 
of ensuring the safe operation of our Nation's nuclear power plants. 
Through my own experience, I have found that the agency's priorities 
have not always been what they should be.
  In February of last year, an accident occurred at the Indian Point 2 
nuclear power plant in my district. A steam generator tube burst, and 
the plant was shut down immediately. It goes without saying the people 
in the community surrounding the plant, myself included, were seriously 
troubled by this

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accident. We expected the Federal agency responsible for handling 
nuclear safety would make every effort to quickly repair and restore 
public confidence in the plant. I regret to say that the NRC fell short 
of this very reasonable expectation.
  Though the agency itself acknowledged that this plant had the highest 
risk assessment of any plant in the Nation, they were on red as risk 
assessment, they demonstrated a stunning indifference to a litany of 
legitimate concerns about the plant's safety. The NRC chairman refused 
to play any role whatsoever in the very difficult deliberation as to 
when the plant ought to be started. The NRC chairman refused to hold a 
commission hearing at the plant, or even come to Buchanan to see the 
plant and the surrounding community firsthand.
  Not once during the entire 11-month period that the plant was down 
did the chairman or any of the NRC commissioners think they ought to 
come to Buchanan, New York, and look at this plant. So the chairman can 
imagine my profound concern when I learned about some of the places 
that the NRC chairman and the commissioners did think they ought to go 
during the time the plant was down: places like Korea, Spain, and 
Mexico. The public record indicates that during the time the Indian 
Point 2 plant was down, the chairman of the NRC visited a nuclear power 
plant in Scotland. He visited three in Canada.
  During this time, investigators from the IG's office were at Indian 
Point cataloguing all of their mistakes. They found a troubling number 
of things at this plant, and the most troubling they discovered was 
that an inspection performed back in 1997 plainly indicated the strong 
likelihood of a leak. The NRC had that information back in 1997. It 
showed that there was a strong likelihood of a leak, but nothing was 
done because nobody at the NRC ever looked at the inspection report. 
This should not have happened.
  I realize there is a new interest in nuclear power, and I should say 
that I am not against nuclear power. But the way that the NRC handled 
the Nation's most troubled plant raises some real concerns. I 
understand the gentleman from Alabama has provided a generous increase 
in the funding for the Inspector General in this bill. I commend him 
and thank him for it.
  Is it the gentleman's understanding that this additional funding will 
be available for further independent reviews of NRC regulating 
activities?
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, will the gentlewoman yield?
  Mrs. KELLY. I yield to the gentleman from Alabama.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. I thank the gentlewoman for her work on this issue, Mr. 
Chairman; and I share her feelings about the importance of ensuring 
that the NRC Inspector General is provided the resources it needs for 
conducting independent reviews. This additional $680 million that we 
have in this bill is available for this very purpose.
  Mrs. KELLY. I thank the gentleman. I would ask only that the 
gentleman continue to keep in mind the importance of a strong funding 
level for the NRC Inspector General as we continue to work on this 
bill, and also that he continue to vigorously oversee the agency to 
ensure that unnecessary travel expenses are not incurred by the NRC 
officials.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. If the gentlewoman will yield further, I will continue 
to closely monitor all expenditures incurred by NRC officials to ensure 
that their resources are not improperly squandered.
  Mrs. KELLY. I thank the gentleman from Alabama very much, the 
distinguished chairman of the subcommittee.
  Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to withdraw my amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the gentlewoman 
from New York?
  There was no objection.
  The CHAIRMAN. The amendment is withdrawn.


               Amendment Offered by Mr. Davis of Florida

  Mr. DAVIS of Florida. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment offered by Mr. Davis of Florida:
       In title III, in the item relating to ``FEDERAL ENERGY 
     REGULATORY COMMISSION--SALARIES AND EXPENSES'', strike the 
     last proviso (relating to Gulfstream Natural Gas Project).

  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to the order of the House of Wednesday, June 
27, 2001, the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Davis) and a Member opposed 
each will control 30 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Davis).
  Mr. DAVIS of Florida. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Mr. Chairman, I would like to set the context of this amendment 
because it takes us back a little bit. Last week, we had a debate on 
the floor of the House of Representatives. It was a very hearty, very 
democratic debate on the floor about an amendment I offered, along with 
the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Scarborough), to prevent the Secretary 
of the Interior from going forward with issuing any new leases for 
offshore oil drilling, oil and gas, 17 miles off the coast of 
Pensacola, some of the most pristine beaches in not just the State of 
Florida but of the country, and about 200 miles off the coast of Tampa 
Bay, my home.
  The House adopted our amendment by a vote of 247, and the bill is now 
in the Senate where it will be debated there. Unfortunately, the highly 
esteemed chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, 
the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan), was in Alabama, with other 
members of the Alabama delegation traveling with the President, and was 
not present for the debate. I regret that, and I know he certainly 
regrets it as well. But the House has done its will and spoke on that 
particular issue.
  The reason I rise today to offer this amendment is because the 
gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan) has inserted some language in 
this particular bill we are debating, which I think is fair to describe 
as a response to the debate last week. What that language, which I will 
speak about in more detail in a while, along with other Members both 
Democrats and Republicans, what that language does is to punish the 
State of Florida and, I would submit, other States who have a stake in 
a natural gas pipeline that has already had $800 million spent on it 
and is due to open in approximately 1 year.
  The language that the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan) has 
inserted would basically bring that pipeline to a grinding halt. I 
think that is an irresponsible position for the House of 
Representatives to take today. I personally would not want to go home 
on the 4th of July and have to explain that I had voted for a bill that 
had that language in it.
  I do understand the gentleman's point. His point is he wishes he had 
been here for the debate, and I think he disagrees in the strongest 
terms with the outcome of the debate last week. But that debate is 
over, and we are dealing with a new issue today and it is an issue that 
affects hundreds of workers' lives.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume, and I rise in opposition to the amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, let me say that, as the gentleman from Florida just 
mentioned, yes, they did bring up this measure while I, along with the 
other members of the Alabama delegation, were traveling with the 
President last week, which is their prerogative. I think, out of 
deference to me and to my State and to my delegation, that they should 
have at least informed us the night before of their intent. But they 
failed to do that, which is their prerogative. They do not have to 
notify me of anything if they do not want to. But I thought it awful 
strange they waited until we got out of town. When it was obvious we 
could not get back, this did not allow us the opportunity to defend our 
State.
  But this amendment has nothing to do with that. As the gentleman from 
Florida said, the vote last Thursday was the will of the Congress. This 
has nothing to do with permitting the drilling of oil off the coast of 
Alabama, which 181 does. It has nothing to do with that.
  I think it is the height of hypocrisy for Floridians, especially the 
sponsor of this amendment, to say we are not

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going to allow drilling for natural gas in the Gulf of Mexico because 
it is 270 miles off the coast of Tampa, but at the same time we want a 
pipeline from Alabama to Florida because we need this gas. They tell us 
that a 142 percent expectation of increased need is going to take place 
in the next 6 years in Florida. So what they said was, do not drill for 
the gas, but go ahead and build the pipeline and supply us with gas.
  Mr. Chairman, they have got to make up their mind. It is the height 
of hypocrisy to try to pull the wool over the Floridians' eyes just 
because it might look good in the local newspaper, or statewide 
newspaper, if someone happens to be running for a public office 
statewide. It is the height of hypocrisy to on the one hand go to your 
people and say, look how strong I am, look how faithful I am, look what 
I am doing to protect the beautiful beaches of Florida, look what I 
have done, reelect me or send me to another office, do all of these 
good things; but let us go ahead and build that pipeline because we 
know it is going to happen anyway. And if it is not going to happen 
anyway, well, then, we do not want them drilling off the coast of 
Alabama for additional resources. We are going to take this resource 
away from the people of Alabama.
  So they are saying to Alabamans, you suffer, but do not let us 
suffer. Let us run our air conditioners all year long, because the 
weather and the climate in Florida is so wonderful and so beautiful it 
requires that they have more air-conditioning. We want to do that. We 
want to provide for Floridians the ample resources they need, thereby 
ensuring they will not have the same energy crisis in Florida, which is 
what is going to happen.
  We do not want that to happen to our neighbors in Florida, and we are 
not going to let that happen. But, in my opinion, why build a pipeline 
to transport a gas when the author of this bill is the one who authored 
the other bill saying do not drill for gas.

                              {time}  1045

  Mr. Chairman, why are we going to disrupt the sandy bottom of the 
beautiful Gulf of Mexico and risk that brown sand turning the beautiful 
beaches of the panhandle in Destin and in Pensacola into a brown beach 
instead of a sugar-white beach? Why would we risk that if we are not 
going to have a resource? It is a mystery to me.
  The only solution I can find to that mystery is that someone is 
grandstanding here. Someone either believes or wants it to happen on 
the one hand, and is trying for some reason to convince the Floridians 
that might read about this that he is a savior of Florida, and maybe he 
is.
  I think Jeb Bush has done more, Mr. Chairman, to preserve the 
pristine beaches of Florida and make sure that there is no offshore 
drilling off the coast of Florida than anybody in history, and he is to 
be commended for that. But I do not know how we can tolerate the 
hypocrisy of what we are hearing here today, and that is do not drill 
for oil. That is accepted. That is not in question today; but just in 
case we do, then send it to Florida through this pipeline that we are 
going to lay on the bottom of the beautiful Gulf of Mexico.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. DAVIS of Florida. Mr. Chairman, I yield 4 minutes to myself to 
respond.
  Mr. Chairman, I am going to stick to the facts today. I think that 
holds us up to the standard that we should be held up to. First, I am 
flattered at the notion that I had the chance to control the timing of 
the debate last week. I wish I had that much influence. It is clear 
that the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Scarborough) and I do not.
  As far as the notice, I regret that the gentleman from Alabama was 
not aware. The amendment was not filed until the morning of the debate 
because I had difficulties with the Congressional Budget Office getting 
an amendment that would not be subject to a point of order, and that is 
the reason why the amendment only has a 6-month duration for the fiscal 
year.
  Mr. Chairman, let me correct something the gentleman from Alabama 
said. Section 181 is 200 miles, not 270 miles, off the coast of Tampa 
Bay, my home. That is where I grew up. I remember an oil spill that 
happened there when I was a child. It was not a rig, it was a barge, 
but it had the same impact. This is 17 miles from the district that the 
gentleman from Florida (Mr. Scarborough) represents, and he can talk 
about that better than I can.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. DAVIS of Florida. I yield to the gentleman from Alabama.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I might point out that they are already 
drilling now within 1 mile of the district of the gentleman from 
Florida (Mr. Scarborough). That is not an argument.
  These waters are primarily the waters within 17 miles of the beaches 
or offshore land of the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Scarborough) that 
belong to and are the State of Alabama. They are directly south of 
Alabama and not Florida. We can argue all we want by slanting arrows to 
Alabama that these are areas off the gentleman from Florida's (Mr. 
Scarborough) beaches, but that is not factual. That is misleading. That 
is hypocrisy.
  Mr. DAVIS of Florida. Reclaiming my time, Mr. Chairman, let us stick 
with the facts and not hyperbole. It is 17 miles. The gentleman and I 
can disagree whether or not that is Florida's coast or not. The fact is 
it is 17 miles from some of the most pristine beaches of not just 
Florida, but in the country.
  Mr. Chairman, the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan) said 
yesterday on numerous occasions that he wanted to be remembered as a 
champion of Florida's beaches, and after he retired, and I hope that is 
not soon, Mr. Chairman, to travel around our beautiful beaches. That is 
where many of the gentleman's constituents and constituents of Democrat 
and Republican Members of Congress head this summer, to our beaches.
  No, we do not want drilling off our coast that poses an unreasonable 
risk, and we do need energy, Mr. Chairman. The gentleman from Alabama 
(Mr. Callahan) is correct about that. I know the gentleman from Alabama 
(Mr. Callahan) wants energy for his State, too, but that does not mean 
he has to live next door to a nuclear power facility or any type of 
facility at all.
  This is about balance. That is what the debate is about. It is about 
balance in terms of protecting our cherished environment.
  Let me tell the gentleman, if it is hypocritical for Floridians to 
cherish their environment, then I proudly wear that label. We think 
there can be balance achieved, but we do not think that the language in 
the bill that the amendment addresses does anything to achieve that 
balance.
  Let me also say this is not about allocating credit and blame. The 
public is too smart for that. I am pleased the gentleman from Alabama 
(Mr. Callahan) mentioned the Governor of the State of Florida. He 
supports my amendment, Mr. Chairman; and Floridians support this 
amendment.
  If this pipeline was not being built yet, I think the gentleman from 
Alabama (Mr. Callahan) could have a plausible basis for his position. 
But let me just state the facts, and then yield to the gentleman from 
Florida (Mr. Scarborough).
  This pipeline has had $800 million spent on it. There are hundreds of 
workers all over the country who are thankfully on the verge of earning 
a bonus for early completion. What are we saying to these workers and 
their families if we pass a bill today that brings that project to a 
grinding halt? I do not think that is responsible. That is what we 
ought to be debating today, whether or not the Congress ought to take 
that position.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. 
Scarborough).
  Mr. SCARBOROUGH. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from Florida for 
this amendment. I want to underline what he said about the Governor of 
the State of Florida. Jeb Bush not only supported our efforts last 
week, he supported our efforts in a bill that we have dropped regarding 
181; and he and the State of Florida support the pipeline.
  I think there is some hypocrisy going on here. I also think some 
people are having some fun, and I have no problem with people having 
fun on the House floor with some tongue-in-cheek amendments. But I 
could not help

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 being moved yesterday by the gentleman from Alabama's (Mr. Callahan) 
love for northwest Florida beaches, and his stated desire to protect 
those beaches. And he said yesterday that he is going to do everything 
he can to protect the environment of northwest Florida. He specifically 
noted the scenic beauty of the beaches from Perdido Key all of the way 
over to Panama City beach, Destin, Seaside. It is a wonderful place, is 
it not, Mr. Chairman? And he knows because we are neighbors.
  Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. SCARBOROUGH. I yield to the gentleman from Florida.
  Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Chairman, the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. 
Callahan) also spoke of his love for the pristine beaches of the west 
coast of Florida, not just the northwest. He favored all of our beaches 
yesterday in that debate.
  Mr. SCARBOROUGH. Yes, sir, and they are beautiful, too, sir. Mr. 
Chairman, my grandmother would term what the gentleman from Alabama 
(Mr. Callahan) is doing for us in northwest Florida as gracious plenty; 
but I have to say, I thought I could do one thing in return to help his 
constituents the way he is trying to help mine, and if we can get a 
unanimous consent later on, maybe after this vote, perhaps we could 
offer my amendment which passed through legislative counsel last night, 
and I am introducing an amendment to protect the workers of the 
district of the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan) and the State of 
Alabama from layoffs and firings that would occur if the Callahan 
language were to survive.
  As much as I appreciate his love for the natural beauty of northwest 
Florida, I feel an equally pressing need to show my affection for the 
working men and women of the State of Alabama.
  Just as he wants to protect Florida bases, I want to protect Alabama 
jobs that would be lost if those who are currently employed working on 
the Gulfstream natural gas project are not able to complete their work. 
And that is in my district, too, at Berg Steel and across the States of 
Louisiana and Texas and Alabama.
  I fear, though, that the precedent that is being set by what the 
chairman has attempted to do in this bill could be dangerous because, 
let us think about it. Just for 1 second, let us think about it. If we 
use this logic that is being used, like, for instance, communities that 
do not want drilling 17 miles off their beaches should not be able to 
get natural gas, well, let us see how that would apply to other things.
  If one likes chicken, under the amendment's logic, community chicken 
farms would have to spring up on every block because it would be 
hypocritical not to have chicken coops in the back yards of everybody's 
house that eats chicken. Think about sausage. In Pensacola, Florida, we 
have a place called The Coffee Cup. It is a greasy spoon that serves 
bacon, and I will be the first to admit, I love bacon. I consume bacon. 
But I sure as heck do not want to have a self-sustaining Coffee Cup 
slaughterhouse in the parking lot behind that restaurant and every 
other restaurant, but, using this logic, would have to do it.
  Got milk? Better tie up the cow behind the barn because if one likes 
milk, if you consume milk, you better have the cow. Just like on the 
commercial where the guy goes up, he wants milk on his cereal, it looks 
preposterous. That is the world that we are heading into if we have 
protectionism where if you consume it in your district, you have to 
make it in your district.
  Mr. Chairman, that is why I think this is tongue-in-cheek, because 
the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan) knows that is not the way 
that the American economy works. The gentleman from Alabama (Mr. 
Callahan) knows that there are strengths in every area. Texas, 
Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, they have their strengths. Northwest 
Florida and the State of Florida, they also have their strengths; and 
who among us does not know that Florida's strength lies in its natural 
beauty of its beaches.
  I want to say that I understand that the chairman was upset because 
we took this vote when the State of Alabama Caucus, most of them, were 
out of the Capitol. Mr. Chairman, as I said to you in the cloak room 
before I hugged you for trying to protect my district so much, my staff 
worker that was responsible for tracking the whereabouts of the Alabama 
delegation must have been off that day. I know it will shock the 
gentleman, but I did not know that the delegation was down with the 
President in Alabama. I found out when we were on the floor, and if the 
gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan) wants, we can have, maybe after 
this amendment passes, we can have a unanimous consent decree that we 
pass something that suggests that had the Alabama delegation been here, 
the Davis-Scarborough amendment would have passed 247 to 194 instead of 
247 to 188. It was not even close.
  That being said, there is common courtesy in the House. I can tell 
the gentleman, the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Davis) and I had no idea 
that the Alabama delegation was gone. If we had, certainly we could 
have delayed it. But I can tell the gentleman, neither the gentleman 
from Florida (Mr. Davis) nor I controls what happens on this floor.
  So I will say once again, it does not make sense for us to have this 
philosophy that if one does not produce it, one cannot consume it. It 
leads to a thousand different ridiculous conclusions. Therefore, I am 
hoping that the Davis-Scarborough amendment will pass and that we can 
move forward and that we can have the pipeline that will help workers 
not only in Florida, but also in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and 
Texas.


                      Announcement by the Chairman

  The CHAIRMAN. The Chair reminds Members to direct their comments to 
the Chair and not to other Members.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Mr. Chairman, let me say that once again we are experiencing sort of 
a demagoguery, sort of an attempt to mislead the Members of Congress as 
to what this amendment is all about.
  This amendment has zero to do with drilling off the coast of Alabama 
or Florida. It has nothing to do with it. I mean, that is water under 
the dam. That water is gone. They did that in my absence, and I will 
accept the gentleman's apology. And let me apologize to him. I never 
thought the gentleman ought to keep track of me. I never thought that 
the gentleman ought to get his scheduler to poll to see where the 
Alabama delegation is. But this is a body of compromise, a body of 
congeniality, a body of friendship. I would never think of doing this 
to anyone in Florida when I knew they were gone; but that is water 
under the dam.
  This amendment has zero to do with the drilling aspect, and quit 
trying to tell the Members of this body that it does. It has to do with 
the laying of a pipeline from Mobile, Alabama, my district, to Florida, 
and even the Florida newspapers are saying that the gas pipeline will 
cause damage in the Gulf of Mexico.
  So here we have the Florida Naples Daily saying that it is going to 
cause damage to the environment, and now we do not have the Florida 
delegation defending that, they are saying, go ahead and destroy our 
environment. Build that nasty old pipeline. Bring the gas in from 
somewhere else.

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  Mr. Chairman, we ought to talk about the subject matter, not what 
happened last week.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Mississippi 
(Mr. Wicker), a distinguished and knowledgeable Member of this issue 
and also a member of the subcommittee.
  Mr. WICKER. I thank the gentleman for yielding me this time.
  Mr. Chairman, a former Member of this body once went down in history 
when he made the statement, ``Don't confuse me with the facts, my mind 
is made up.''
  Although the chairman of the subcommittee has just told us that this 
is not about the drilling in lease area 181, I did have to feel that 
way last week during the discussion of the Davis amendment. ``Don't 
confuse us with the facts,'' some of our colleagues said, ``our minds 
are made up.''
  ``Forget the fact that this Nation is in an energy crisis. Just 
forget the fact that area 181 is way out in the Gulf of Mexico. My mind 
is made up. Forget the fact that we need to get rid of our dependence 
on foreign sources of energy. Just forget that. Don't confuse

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me with that fact, our minds are made up.''
  And then there was the constant discussion last week about drilling 
off the coast of Florida. Even The Washington Post, the next day, 
talked about drilling off the coast of Florida without giving the 
reader the foggiest notion of what we were talking about.
  So what we are talking about, Mr. Chairman, is drilling in the 
colored-in area here which is called ``Sale 181 Area.''
  As Members can see, it is over 213 miles from Tampa Bay, this 
drilling which our friends from Florida are calling off the coast of 
Florida. 213 miles away. Over 100 miles away from Panama City there. 
Yet it is being described by people in that delegation as being off the 
coast of Florida.
  Now, it is true that there is a small strip of water, a small strip 
of the gulf in lease area 181 that goes up to the coast of Alabama. I 
want to suggest, perhaps, to the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan) 
that he should apologize on behalf of the State of Alabama for being so 
close to Pensacola, Florida. But the fact of the matter is that this 
strip that extends within 17 miles of the coast of Alabama is Alabama 
territory. I think Alabama should get to make that choice.
  And also forget the fact, our friends tell us, the supporters of the 
Davis amendment, that drilling offshore is not only environmentally 
sound nowadays but it can even be environmentally friendly.
  Now, let me say a word of caution to my colleagues, Mr. Chairman. And 
I mean this sincerely. There has been the use of the word ``hypocrisy'' 
by both sides. Someone is going to jump up sometime and ask that words 
be taken down. I wish we would not use the word ``hypocrisy.'' I think 
that has been established as perhaps going above and beyond what we can 
do on the floor here. But I do think there is a degree of audacity in 
this argument here. And the audacity, the gentleman from Florida (Mr. 
Scarborough) is right, it is bipartisan. It is bipartisan.
  I learned from the State Department yesterday that most nations in 
the world claim 12 nautical miles off the coast as their territory. 
Only one nation does not do this and that is Communist China. They 
claim 200 miles. There is a little bit of a parallel here. The people 
of Florida are saying off the coast of Florida is 213 miles, ``That's 
our coast.'' Off the coast of Florida is 108 miles from Fort Walton 
Beach. They are saying, ``Don't give us the 12 nautical miles. Give us 
108 miles. Give us 213 miles.'' A bit of audacity there.
  Let me just say this. Perhaps we do not need this pipeline anymore. 
We were talking last week with the Davis amendment about 7.8 trillion 
cubic feet of natural gas. I think this body, Mr. Chairman, made a 
grave mistake to decide that this Nation will forgo this very needed 
natural resource. It is not a question of where you put the sausage 
factory. It is not a question of where you bring the cow. This is where 
the natural gas is. It is right there in lease area 181. We have 
decided, and I hope we can reverse that decision, Mr. Chairman, we have 
decided to forgo it. So since we are not going to have the 7.8 trillion 
cubic feet, I say there is no need for the pipeline to carry only 1 
million cubic feet per day.
  I urge the defeat of the Davis amendment.
  Mr. DAVIS of Florida. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself 1 minute.
  The gentleman who last spoke wants to redebate the amendment last 
week and the chairman does not and I respect the chairman's view on 
that. I do not think we should redebate it. But since he brought it up, 
let me respond.
  There are 21 days of crude oil in section 181. We do not think as 
Floridians we should have to choose between satisfying our energy needs 
and exposing ourselves to undue environmental risk for 21 days of crude 
oil. The House has spoken on that. We sent a very strong message that 
we need a more balanced approach to environmental and energy policy, 
not just in Florida but in the country, and that vote stands.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Florida (Mrs. 
Thurman).
  Mrs. THURMAN. I thank the gentleman for yielding me this time.
  I stand today to say that I support the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Florida (Mr. Davis). I was struck a little bit by the 
idea that we are not here because of what happened last week. And so at 
some point I would like the gentleman from Alabama to tell me why we 
are here then.
  This is a project that, in fact, is going to be completed by this 
winter, about 753 miles long. The fact of the matter is that in my 
district, because this comes through my district, it was controversial. 
FERC held public hearings at which the concerns of these interested 
citizens were heard. In response, Gulfstream modified the pipeline plan 
and now FERC is reviewing the revised plan. So I do not think there is 
really a legitimate reason at this time for the House to stop this 
process, and I think that is what this amendment actually would do and 
why we are here.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, will the gentlewoman yield?
  Mrs. THURMAN. I yield to the gentleman from Alabama.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. No, that is not why we are here. This has nothing to do 
with the drilling. It has to do with the fact that there is not going 
to be any natural gas and if there is not going to be, why build a 
pipeline. That is why we are here. It has only to do with the pipeline, 
not the drilling.
  Mrs. THURMAN. Reclaiming my time, there has been natural gas and 
there continues to be natural gas. We have natural gas already. So I 
think that is kind of not true.
  We get natural gas from other places. All we are saying is, we do not 
want the drilling in Florida. I think the gentleman can understand 
that. I mean, I have been to some of these other States where they have 
beaches and, quite frankly, I do not like getting into Louisiana's 
water because it is greasy and nasty and looks bad and I do not like 
it. I apologize to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Tauzin), but I 
have been there and I have swam in some of those areas, in Lake 
Charles. So we have some real concerns about what is going on. We have 
some concerns about the idea that this is taking place today.
  Maybe it was not the gentleman from Alabama's intention because of 
what happened last week, but some of the articles that I have read in 
Florida actually do say that, and that this was controversial.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  In response to the gentlewoman as to why we are doing it today, I had 
my staff poll the Florida delegation to make certain they were all 
going to be here today and that was the appropriate time to bring it 
up, when the Florida delegation was all here.
  In response to the gentleman from Mississippi's suggestion about 
Pensacola, Mr. Chairman, a lot of people in that Panhandle called me my 
entire tenure when I was in the Senate asking me to annex them into 
Alabama. Maybe that is a solution. If we annex the whole Panhandle into 
Alabama, then they will not have any argument about it being 17 miles 
away.
  And with further respect to his indication that my words could be 
taken down for saying the word ``hypocrisy,'' maybe he is right. It is 
the height of arrogance that causes us to be here today.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. 
DeLay), the majority whip.
  Mr. DeLAY. Mr. Chairman, I think it is very interesting, I hope our 
Members are watching this debate, because it is so telling about what 
is going on in the debate about providing energy so that Americans can 
turn on their lights, turn their stoves on and get natural gas, heat 
their homes. It is just amazing to me.
  The Florida delegation, Mr. Chairman, says that they want to keep 
this pipeline, that if we do away with the pipeline it is going to cost 
jobs. But last week they did not care about the jobs that would be lost 
by shutting down a lease sale. And now we are listening to the argument 
that exploring and producing oil and gas, natural gas, is like raising 
chickens. I guess if I asked the Florida delegation where does natural 
gas come from, they would say, ``My stove.''
  Mr. Chairman, I rise to oppose this amendment to let Floridians share 
in the shortages that they are forcing on the rest of America. Last 
week, our friends from Florida torpedoed an extremely promising field 
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 That action jeopardized our energy security. However, they do not 
apply that policy consistently. It turns out that Floridians are far 
more accommodating on energy issues that directly benefit their own 
State.
  They shot down lease sale 181 even though it holds billions of 
barrels of oil and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas. The Florida 
delegation ignored the important role that these reserves could have in 
the lowering of our national dependence on foreign sources.
  It is common knowledge that America is increasingly relying on 
natural gas to produce electricity. That trend is happening because 
making electricity with natural gas can be less taxing on the 
environment than other types of generation. Well, it has to come from 
somewhere.
  They will not let us find more in the gulf, but Florida sure is not 
resisting the trend toward natural gas. Florida's natural gas demand 
for electricity will double over the next 20 years. Florida's 
population will grow by a third over the same time period. And they 
plan to supply electricity to their expanded population with generating 
plants that burn natural gas. This is the height, oh, I have to use the 
word, of arrogance. Of arrogance. I did not want to use the word. This 
is the height of arrogance. Florida is happy to burn it, but they block 
the rest of America from securing a steady and adequate supply of 
natural gas.
  That is why Members from Florida are not blocking a proposed natural 
gas pipeline that will stretch 800 miles through gulf waters from 
Alabama to the beaches of Florida. And these are the same gulf waters 
that Florida placed off-limits to exploration that could help the rest 
of the country. I oppose the gentleman from Florida's amendment to 
block opposition to this pipeline.
  Florida rivals California as a prime example of the not-in-my-
backyard syndrome. Let Florida take the lead in conservation. Let them 
make do with half the natural gas that they are projected to need. If 
Florida is going to lead America to greater dependence on foreign 
sources of energy, then let them do it on their own.
  There is another thing Floridians ought to remember, as pretty as 
their beaches may be, they are still a long walk from most places in 
America. And if their reactionary opposition to oil exploration holds 
sway, tourists will be making their way to Florida on shoe leather. 
Members should oppose this amendment to help Floridians understand the 
implications of their actions.
  Mr. DAVIS of Florida. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself 2 minutes to 
respond to the previous comments.
  First, there is a very important distinction between my amendment 
today and the amendment last week. The purpose of the amendment last 
week was to protect the beaches of Florida. It was not to punish any 
other State. I am not going to speak to what the purpose of the 
language in the bill is, but I will tell you what the effect is. The 
effect is to punish Florida, not to protect anybody else.
  Secondly, with respect to jobs. Last week, every Member of Congress 
that spoke in opposition to the Davis-Scarborough amendment was from an 
oil-producing State and they were protecting jobs in their areas. As I 
said on the floor and I will say again today, they do not have to 
apologize for that. But let me just say today, this is not about 
protecting jobs in Florida. This is about protecting jobs in Texas, 
Alabama, North Carolina and other States. Those are the States where 
there are hundreds of workers who have already spent time building a 
pipeline that is nearing completion. So this is not about protecting 
jobs in Florida today.
  Thirdly, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. DeLay) made the comment that 
we want natural gas but we do not want rigs off our coast. Yes, we 
think that is a false choice.

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  We do not think we should have to choose between spoiling our beaches 
and running the air conditioner. We think we can have balance. Know 
what? If people in Texas and Louisiana want to drill more off their 
coast and sell us their natural gas, and I am sure they will mark it up 
for a pretty reasonable profit, they should do that but we do not want 
that. We have not given up on our beaches. They may have given up on 
our beaches but we have not given up on our beaches, and that is why we 
do not want the rigs in our backyard.
  Now let me say another very important reason why this amendment needs 
to be adopted. We want competition in Florida. We do not want to happen 
in Florida what happened in California, which is the market fails and 
the consumers get squeezed. This pipeline will create competition. We 
will have more than one pipeline in Florida, and that is good for 
consumers. It is the way the market is supposed to work. It is good, 
old-fashioned competition.
  Finally, the statement was made that Florida needs to do more in 
conservation energy efficiency. That is absolutely correct, but let us 
do it together as a country, and Texas and Florida, let us work 
together as a Congress to empower consumers and States to do more to 
use energy more wisely and more efficiently.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. 
Scarborough).
  Mr. SCARBOROUGH. Mr. Chairman, let me just say, I have always 
respected the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Delay) because he shoots it 
straight, and what he told us during his 4 minutes was what this is 
really about, and this provision really is about punishing Florida. It 
is an act of revenge because of what happened last week.
  Regarding a couple of the statements of the gentleman from 
Mississippi (Mr. Wicker), he once again said it is way out in the Gulf 
of Mexico. It is not. It is 17 miles.
  Another thing, the gentleman from Alabama (Chairman Callahan) is 
offended because he said this is a House of courtesy, that he should 
have been notified because it is a House of courtesy. Right after that, 
he accused me personally of demagoguery and hypocrisy and of 
intentionally misleading Members.
  I did not take his words down because he loves the northwest Florida 
environment so much. Also, I had the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. 
Wicker) to come up soon afterwards and try to tone things down, as I 
hope we can do. Unfortunately, the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. 
Wicker) then went on and compared my district to Communist China, but 
we will talk about that at another day.
  I hope we can tone this down, and I hope we can understand what this 
really is all about. It is about punishing the State of Florida because 
over 200, almost 250 people, in this Chamber voted to protect our 
shoreline.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Mr. Chairman, I would like to respond somewhat to the comments of the 
gentleman from Florida (Mr. Scarborough) about where we are today and 
why we are here.
  He keeps bringing up, everyone keeps bringing up, the vote that took 
place last week in our absence. As to whether or not it was done in the 
still of the night while I was gone, that is something that we can 
resolve. Maybe it was not. Maybe they had good intentions. Maybe they 
were just, I do not want to say ignorant, of my absence, but and I 
apologized to him, as I have already said, about the hypocrisy word; 
and I have changed that to arrogance. That is not the issue.
  The issue is the pipeline, and the issue is what is going to be put 
in the pipeline. The gentleman from Florida has already said that they 
already have pipelines going into Florida; they want to build more 
pipelines because they need more natural gas. Now since we are not 
going to be able to drill in this particular section of the gulf, there 
is not going to be any more natural gas. So why build a pipeline when 
the gentleman's own newspapers in Florida are telling him that it could 
be devastating to his own environment? And therein comes my want to 
protect the beautiful beaches of Florida and especially the beautiful 
beaches of the Tampa Bay area.
  When I take my boat to Florida, as I mentioned the other day, when I 
retire, if I ever do, when I go there I am going to go dock at a marina 
in Sarasota. That is where I want to be because that water is so pure, 
those beaches are so clean. I do not want to do anything to damage 
those beaches.
  This is not about drilling. This is about the fact that this body 
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we do not need any more drilling; we do not need any more natural gas. 
If we are not going to have any more natural gas, why do we need a 
pipeline to transport it? Therein lies the arrogance of what I was 
referring to when I mentioned the word hypocrisy. That is what I was 
referring to.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. 
Tauzin), the chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, who is 
more impacted by this than Alabama, than Florida, than anybody else, 
because it is closer to his district than anywhere else; and he is 
about as knowledgeable of this industry as anyone in this body.
  (Mr. TAUZIN asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. TAUZIN. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. 
Callahan) for yielding me this time.
  Mr. Chairman, I do want to calm things down because things get said 
in the heat of argument that I know Members would rather they did not 
say. So let me put something on the record.
  The wetlands, the pristine wetlands in many cases, in my State are 
precious to me, and the waters of Louisiana are precious. They produce 
28 percent of this Nation's landings and seafood that all of us enjoy, 
and we do it simultaneously with producing 27 percent of the Nation's 
natural gas and 27 percent of the Nation's oil. Keep that in mind.
  Our people have made a commitment to this country, not just to keep 
our wetlands safe, not just to keep our fisheries up and sound and 
running for everyone, but also to produce oil and gas for the rest of 
the country, including Florida. There is a national wildlife reserve in 
my district called Mandalay. I asked Secretary Norton if she ever came 
to it. She said she did not.
  Come to Mandalay National Wildlife Reserve in my district, come and 
see it. It is full of wildlife, not just a few wildlife like one herd 
of caribou, but a massive amount of wildlife. We have 100 wells drilled 
in Mandalay National Wildlife Reserve producing oil and gas for the 
rest of America.
  I asked her, is the National Wildlife Reserve in Louisiana less 
precious than ANWR? Less precious than section 181? Less precious than 
any block of land off of California? Why is it that this country makes 
a moral judgment that drilling off the coast of Florida? Even if this 
block were really off the coast of Florida instead of off the coast of 
Alabama and Louisiana and Mississippi, even if the facts were right 
that this land we are talking about in the gulf were really closer to 
Florida than it is to Louisiana in its entirety, not just in one little 
point, even if that judgment was right, and I question that, what makes 
production of resources in those areas of the country more desirable, 
from a moral standpoint, than production in the beautiful wetlands of 
Louisiana?
  Now, I take quarrel with the gentlewoman who talked about our waters. 
We drained 40-something States through Louisiana. A lot of muddy water 
comes through Louisiana. Yet our wetlands are precious to us, but yet 
we accommodate this Nation in its oil and gas needs.
  The gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan) has raised a good question. 
We are going to debate an energy policy on this floor pretty soon. We 
ought to think about the morality of an energy policy that says for 
some parts of America one does not have to take any risk, one does not 
have to take any risk at all, because somebody else will take the risk 
for them. Somebody else's wetlands, somebody else's coast is going to 
take a risk for them.
  I asked Secretary Norton what would happen to this country if 
Louisiana decided to put an amendment on this floor to stop oil and gas 
drilling off our coast because we thought our Mandalay wetlands and our 
wetlands were as precious as the wetlands and the beaches of other 
States of this country? If we decided not to take that risk anymore, 
what would happen to this country if we lost 27 percent of the oil and 
the gas?
  What was the answer? It would be pretty severe.
  I said, no, ma'am. It would be catastrophic. This country would fall 
apart.
  We are already buying oil from Iraq to turn it into jet fuel to put 
it in our planes to fly over Iraq to bomb the radar sites that are 
trying to kill American pilots today. How stupid is that policy? In a 
few short weeks we are going to be debating real broad national energy 
policy. And, yes, we will talk about conservation, and we will talk 
about protecting the environment and supplying this country with the 
energy it needs so that Americans can turn on the lights and they will 
not be off as they were in California this summer.
  We have a moral question to answer in this body, too. Is it moral to 
protect some people from the risks of production and to ask some of us 
to do it all? The answer should be no. A pipeline is not needed if the 
natural gas is not produced.
  Mr. DAVIS of Florida. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the 
gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Carson).
  Mr. CARSON of Oklahoma. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of the 
Davis amendment to strike the language from the appropriations bill 
that would stop the Gulf Stream pipeline in mid-construction.
  The chairman and the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Tauzin) raised 
great points about the need for an energy policy in this country, and 
in the interest of consistency it should be noted that I voted to 
explore and produce in section 181, just as I support opening up other 
public lands across this country.
  It is critical that construction of this pipeline be allowed to 
continue, especially at a time when we do recognize the need for 
improving our energy infrastructure. I think both of us on both sides 
of the aisle would agree that improving and increasing our 
infrastructure and its ability to supply the country with needed energy 
is a key component of any sensible energy policy. The completion of 
this pipeline will provide much needed natural gas throughout central 
and southern Florida, as well as providing many jobs for the people of 
the Gulf Coast region.
  After all, pipes have already been ordered and delivered. Commitments 
have been made to construction companies. Contracts have been signed 
with customers. Power plants are now being built in anticipation of 
this project being completed.
  The gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan) is right that this is not a 
vote about section 181. I was in the minority of this House in 
supporting drilling and exploration there. Today, the question is 
whether in the annals of all the wise policy tools at our disposal 
whether we shall cut off our nose to spite our face. Passing this 
appropriations bills with a prohibition would have the effect of 
stopping this pipeline and its construction.
  The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has already approved the 
project. The construction materials are already ordered at the cost of 
$800 million. The current language would prevent FERC from continuing 
the various approvals that are needed for ongoing construction.
  Keeping this language in the energy and water appropriations bill 
would be both bad energy policy and bad public policy. If we are 
serious about a national energy policy, if we are serious about 
improving our infrastructure, let us build this pipeline.
  Let us not act in petulance or in haste just because we lost one vote 
in this House. Let us work together to improve our national energy 
policy. I strongly encourage a ``yes'' vote on the Davis amendment to 
strike this unfortunate language from the energy and water 
appropriations billing.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Alabama (Mr. Bachus).
  Mr. BACHUS. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. 
Callahan) for yielding me this time.
  Mr. Chairman, the steel industry in Alabama is struggling. We have 
just lost two steel mills. That means that steel workers, iron workers, 
boiler makers, electricians, sheet metal workers, railroad crafts have 
been put out of work.
  The Davis amendment allows the construction of a natural gas pipeline 
from Alabama to Florida. We just heard the gentleman say that contracts 
have already been let. That pipeline is to be constructed largely with 
imported steel. That adds insult to injury for those of us in Alabama. 
For that reason, the members of the steel caucus, those who have those 
crafts in

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their States, should be aware that a yes vote on the Davis amendment 
will allow the continued use of imported steel and steel products for 
the construction of this pipeline. That is why yesterday the gentleman 
from Pennsylvania (Mr. English), chairman of the Congressional Steel 
Caucus, sent a letter to all members of the steel caucus and I want to 
reiterate to anyone who has a steel industry in their district to take 
a long look and vote no on this measure.
  Mr. DAVIS of Florida. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself 1 minute.
  Mr. Chairman, nobody has answered the question yet why we are here. 
The gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker) said we are here to 
redebate the amendment; the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan) to 
put the language in the amendment, but he still has not told us why we 
are here.
  Let me say what is happening because this is a fact. We have opened a 
can of worms here today. I would say to the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. 
Callahan), we are hearing a new debate and the debate is that a 
pipeline on which $800 million has already been spent, we are going to 
debate whether it used the right kind of steel and if it did not we are 
going to shut it down. That is lunacy. Yes, this pipeline has some 
steel from other countries and it also has a lot of steel from the 
United States. Some of it was fabricated in Mobile, Alabama.
  Let me add something else. I have been asked questions whether this 
is a unionized project or not. We are going to debate whether this was 
unionized after it has been built? What are we going to do deconstruct 
the thing and build a fishing reef off the coast of Mobile? This is a 
unionized project. Is it 100 percent unionized? No, it is not. So is 
that a basis to defeat the amendment and scrap this project? Lunacy.
  Let me also point out, this pipeline was built to transport natural 
gas that is already being drilled and extracted in the Mobile area.
  Mr. DAVIS of Florida. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the 
gentleman from Florida (Mr. Scarborough).

                              {time}  1130

  Mr. SCARBOROUGH. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for yielding me 
time.
  Just very quickly, I want to say that we did find out why we are here 
today. Again, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. DeLay) is a straight 
shooter. He told us why we are here today, because of the vote of last 
week; basically telling Florida if you do not want to drill, then you 
do not get our gas.
  He also talked about oil, which, of course, everybody says this is 
not about oil, it is about natural gas. It is about oil, eventually.
  Also I just want to say to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Tauzin), 
certainly Louisiana does take the risk; but it takes an economic risk. 
That is what America is about. He says that everybody has to go ahead 
and do what Louisiana is doing, or else we are all in danger and are 
not going to be able to put fuel into jets.
  Well, that is what capitalism is all about. People make economic 
choices. They decide what their region or their State or their country 
is best at; and then, after they make that decision, they pursue it.
  Louisiana decided that drilling for natural gas and oil made economic 
sense, and I applaud them. That is capitalism. We in Florida have 
decided that our natural resources and our beautiful beaches, which are 
the best in the world, and they are ranked the best in the world, year 
in and year out, we have made the economic decision that we want to do 
everything we can to protect those beaches.
  So, if you want to talk about sort of disingenuousness or audacity, 
do not tell me that I do not love America because it does not make the 
economic sense in the State of Florida to drill in our wetlands as it 
does in Louisiana. If Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and 
Alaska want to drill for oil, God bless them. That is what America is 
about, that is what the 10th amendment is about, that is what States' 
rights are about.
  The State of Florida does not want to be Louisiana; it wants to be 
the State of Florida.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may 
concern.
  Mr. Chairman, I might just briefly reply to the description of me as, 
I think, a lunatic, or the word lunacy. I do not like that word either; 
but, nevertheless, in his statement, it was the height of hypocrisy 
again when he is saying that they are already drilling for gas in 
Mobile Bay, we want that gas.
  But, even more so, this is not about drilling; it is about an 
inadequate supply of gas to go into a pipeline that is being 
constructed. So why should we construct it, if we are not going to have 
the gas?
  Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. 
Mica).
  Mr. MICA. Mr. Chairman, the question has been asked, why are we here? 
We really should be here not to talk about good politics. Possibly some 
of the proposals that have been put forth over the last couple of weeks 
have been good politics; but I can tell you, they are bad energy 
policy.
  At the risk of being hit from all sides, I recently proposed a 
compromise that would comply with 100-mile limits for oil drilling. 
Technically the finger that comes up here on this map of Tract 181 is 
in Alabama waters and we should not be really interfering with that 
lease sale. The gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan) is right in 
opposing the amendment and prohibiting the construction of this 
pipeline. Why do we need a pipeline if we ban gas development?
  I proposed that we should prohibit oil drilling in this finger, and 
then allow natural gas to be extracted from all of Tract 181, which we 
need. We have an expected population increase of 29 percent in Florida 
by 2020, and the demand for natural gas to produce electricity will 
grow by 97 percent.
  The United States Department of Energy report entitled ``Inventory of 
Power Plants in the United States'' revealed that during the next 
decade, 28 of 34 electrical generating plants planned for Florida are 
designed for natural gas.
  Here is an article for a plant in New Smyrna Beach. It is 2 weeks 
old; that proposed power plant is gas-turbine generated. Here is 
another proposed power plant mentioned this past week in the Orlando 
Sentinel, it is also gas-turbine generated. Where are we going to get 
the natural gas?
  You cannot have it both ways, and I think the gentleman from Alabama 
(Mr. Callahan), by his provision, in banning this pipeline, is 
correctly raising serious energy policy questions. We must have good 
energy policy, but we cannot be dependent on bad politics to make good 
energy decisions.
  Mr. DAVIS of Florida. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the 
gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey), the ranking member on the 
Committee on Appropriations.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Chairman, I really do not have a dog in this hunt, 
coming from Wisconsin; but I simply want to observe that there has been 
a false parallelism in this debate between the idea that if you are 
going to prevent drilling off the coast of Florida, then somehow it 
makes sense to prevent the construction of this pipeline.
  There is a big difference. The drilling has not occurred; the 
pipeline is already largely constructed. Secondly, there is no question 
that Florida is going to need the natural gas. So it seems to me that 
there is a false parallelism which should be dismissed by any neutral 
Members of the body.
  Secondly, let's not kid anybody: this amendment is not being offered 
because of the merits of the amendment. This amendment is here because 
it is payback time. There are some people in this place who are unhappy 
with the fact that last week this House said, ``No, we are going to 
protect the beaches of Florida. The oil companies are not going to be 
able to drill any damn place they want. They are going to have to take 
other higher values into consideration.''
  So, now people who are resentful of that are thinking it would be 
nice if you could tweak the Florida Representatives for standing up for 
their own environmental interests and make them pay a price for 
protecting their beaches from the money lust of the oil companies. That 
is basically what you are talking about.
  So I think that any Member who does not have a dog in this hunt ought 
to recognize this amendment for what it is. It is a clever attempt at 
retaliation. I think the House is above that kind of

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thing, and I would urge that the amendment being offered by the 
gentleman today to remove this provision in the bill be adopted.
  Any area has the right to protect its environmental resources. That 
is what Florida did last week, and the House ought to respect it.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. Green).
  Mr. GREEN of Texas. Mr. Chairman, I hardly ever disagree with my 
ranking member on appropriations, but I do not think this amendment is 
about retaliation. I think it is about a real energy debate we need to 
have here on this floor.
  I agree, Florida probably does not want to become like Louisiana or 
Texas. I am worried that they want to become like California, where 
they do not want to produce. I am glad at least they want to pipeline 
sometimes, because that is not the case in California. Yet, when the 
price goes up, because our supplies are low, they want price caps and 
they complain about it.
  I am worried about this, that if we do not adopt this amendment, if 
Florida recognizes you need to produce your resources, we will see a 
California in the southeastern United States, and we will have the same 
problem in the southeastern United States as we do in California.
  We can produce. I have platforms offshore that are emitting zero 
pollution right now. Thirty years ago we did not have that; but today 
we have that, because we have different standards today. That can be 
done in the Gulf of Mexico, whether it is in Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, 
Mississippi, or Florida waters; and, frankly, it can be done off the 
coast of California.
  So I am glad to be here to enjoy this energy debate. And it is not 
about retaliation. I think it is about energy that we need to talk 
about on this floor.
  Mr. DAVIS of Florida. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the 
gentleman from Indian Rocks, Florida (Mr. Young), distinguished 
chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations.
  Mr. YOUNG of Florida. I thank the gentleman for yielding me time.
  Mr. Chairman, several days ago I suggested to the House that this 
might be coming, this little bit of warfare between different 
delegations; and I had hoped that we would avoid that, because we have 
enough problems with our foreign suppliers. We have enough problems, 
that we do not need to have problems within our own country. The fact 
is that we do need more production of oil and gas, whatever types of 
energy we can produce. We are a consuming Nation, and we need to 
produce.
  But most of the conversations today have not been about this 
amendment. I have enjoyed the debate, except for one part. I did not 
really appreciate the debate of the gentleman from Texas (Mr. DeLay) 
when he attacked the Florida delegation, because most of the Florida 
delegation has been there every step of the way to produce more energy 
at home, rather than relying on foreign sources. So I thought that 
attack was a little bit out of order.
  However, the great debate about where we are to drill or not to drill 
has nothing to do with this amendment. This amendment merely strikes 
three lines out of the bill. Let me tell you what those lines are: 
``Provided further, That none of the funds made available to the 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in this or any other Act may be 
used to authorize construction of the Gulf Stream natural gas 
project.'' That is the amendment, to strike that language.
  Here is why we ought not to be so exercised with each other. The 
issues are these: the permits to authorize the construction of this 
pipeline have already been issued. You are not going to change that, 
unless you are going to change the basic law. You are not going to 
change that with this language.
  The amendment of the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Davis) to strike 
this language is fine, and I am going to vote for it; but the fact of 
the matter is, this whole debate is really about nothing, because those 
permits have already been issued. It has been a good vehicle for the 
debate on the question of Lease 181 and the issue of who drills and who 
does not drill.
  We have to be together on this. To divide this Congress, to divide 
this House over this issue, is not a smart thing to do. We need to calm 
down the rhetoric and need to get about becoming energy independent 
from the rest of the world.
  Mr. DAVIS of Florida. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the 
gentleman from Bradenton, Florida (Mr. Miller.)
  Mr. MILLER of Florida. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for 
yielding me time.
  Mr. Chairman, for our distinguished chairman of the subcommittee, I 
thank him for referring to Sarasota. Those are my beaches in Sarasota. 
I have some of the most beautiful beaches in Florida on the west coast, 
Anna Maria, Longboat Key, Siesta; and I hope the gentleman brings his 
boat down to our area.
  But I am also the base where the pipeline comes ashore in Manatee 
County, at Port Manatee. Just as it leaves the gentleman's district, it 
comes ashore in my district and has a big economic impact. So I think 
we need to recognize the importance of the pipeline and its investors, 
who are spending over $1 billion on this pipeline. Now, if there was 
not enough gas, they would not be spending over $1 billion on this 
pipeline to build it from our two areas.
  This issue was brought up in a manager's amendment on Monday which 
had something to do with Venice beaches, and I appreciate that in the 
manager's amendment last week when we addressed the issue of this 
pipeline.
  So this is strictly about the pipeline. The investors, they are the 
ones putting the money at risk, so we do not even make that decision. 
We should go ahead with the pipeline.
  With respect to 181, since I only have a few seconds left, I think we 
need to open that up for discussion. The gentleman from Florida (Mr. 
Mica) is right. There is plenty of gas there. I think we should drill 
for that gas. This was a 6-month delay. We kind of in Florida get 
caught between our Governor and our President, and I think there is 
room for compromise. I think there is a middle ground.
  That is what we need to look for: move ahead, because we need the 
energy in our country, but let us not fight over this pipeline. The 
pipeline needs to go ahead, and it is going to be continued.
  Mr. Chairman, I hope everyone votes for this amendment.
  Mr. DAVIS of Florida. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself 30 seconds.
  Mr. Chairman, I just want to make two points a little more clearly, 
and then I think we have had a thorough, hearty debate. The first is I 
wish I had the chart here today to show how many rigs have gone up, and 
I would submit can go up, hugging the coast of Louisiana and Texas, far 
removed from any chance of polluting the coast of Florida.
  We have a supply out there, and we Floridians are willing to pay a 
fair price to consume the energy we need for our State. Again, we do 
not want to be trapped like California. We want competition. We want 
more than one pipeline. Adopting this amendment will help achieve that.
  Let me finally say, just to put this in perspective, if we were to 
raise the CAFE standards by 14 miles per hour, that would generate 10 
times more result than the entire amount of natural gas and crude oil 
in section 181.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield the balance of my time to the gentleman from 
Florida (Mr. Scarborough).

                              {time}  1145

  Mr. SCARBOROUGH. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from Florida 
(Mr. Davis) for yielding to me.
  This debate really has been about respect or the lack thereof of the 
people of Florida and their wishes. We have been called hypocrites, 
audacious, arrogant; implied as being unpatriotic, compared to 
Communist Chinese, all because last week some very powerful people, 
some very powerful corporations, were shocked by the outcome of the 
vote on the Davis-Scarborough amendment.
  I think we have to go back to the issue of respect and respect the 
will of the people in my district, respect the people of the State of 
Florida, just like we need to respect the will of the people of 
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Alaska to determine their 
own fate. We are very close to Alabama, and what affects Alabama 
affects us. We need to work together.

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  Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of the time.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of the time.
  This has been an interesting debate, even though probably 90 percent 
of the time was spent on talking about an issue that is not even in the 
amendment. Maybe the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young) is right. Maybe 
this amendment will have no impact. I think he is wrong, because I 
think it is sending a message. They are talking about the parochialism 
of this issue with respect to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. 
Scarborough) and the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Davis).
  Mr. Chairman, this is about my district. This pipeline originates in 
my district. What the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Davis) said is we are 
going to take all you are already extracting, because you have too 
much, and we are going to send it to Florida because they do not have 
any. He is right, except we do not have too much.
  When we ship this natural gas out of the State of Alabama, our power 
rates are going to become competitive, and they go up. So that is not 
the issue. The issue is that I think that this issue was brought up at 
such a time that was inconvenient to the Alabama delegation to be here 
and defend themselves. They have apologized for that. We accept that 
apology.
  I am saying this is an environmental issue, and the issue is whether 
or not we need to build a pipeline if we are not going to permit 
drilling. That is the issue. It is of keen interest to me and to the 
people of my State as well. All they talked about today in their 
selfish vision and their selfish manner is that this is going to hurt 
Florida. We are not going to have gas to air condition our homes. Do 
not do this to us. I am saying, it is going to impact Alabama as well. 
If the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young), the chairman of the 
committee, is right, and FERC would not have the authority to stop it, 
then there is no need for this debate.
  If I want to stop it, I think I can stop it through the permitting 
process in the State of Alabama, which I might; if this amendment is 
adopted, that is probably what I will do. But I do not think this 
amendment is going to be adopted, and I know that some people have come 
up to me and said, Sonny, you would not retaliate and take some of my 
projects out in the conference committee that you have been so generous 
with in the past 3 or 4 or 5 weeks; that is not the case. I would not 
think of doing that.
  Mr. Chairman, I will say that this is a project that is of great 
interest to me, and that I would like very much to defeat this 
amendment, and I would encourage my colleagues to vote ``no.''
  The CHAIRMAN. All time has expired.
  The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from 
Florida (Mr. Davis).
  The question was taken; and the Chairman announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. DAVIS of Florida. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings 
on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Florida will be 
postponed.


          Sequential Votes Postponed in Committee of the Whole

  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, proceedings will 
now resume on those amendments on which further proceedings were 
postponed in the following order: The amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from Nevada (Ms. Berkley), and the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Florida (Mr. Davis).
  The Chair will reduce to 5 minutes the time for any electronic vote 
after the first vote in this series.


                    Amendment Offered by Ms. Berkley

  The CHAIRMAN. The pending business is the demand for a recorded vote 
on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Nevada (Ms. Berkley) 
on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes 
prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The CHAIRMAN. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 102, 
noes 321, not voting 10, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 204]

                               AYES--102

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Baca
     Baldwin
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Blagojevich
     Blumenauer
     Boswell
     Bryant
     Capps
     Capuano
     Conyers
     Crowley
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Engel
     Evans
     Ferguson
     Filner
     Frank
     Frost
     Gephardt
     Gibbons
     Gutierrez
     Hall (OH)
     Hastings (FL)
     Hill
     Hinchey
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley
     Hulshof
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones (OH)
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kucinich
     Lantos
     Leach
     Lee
     Lewis (GA)
     Lowey
     Luther
     Maloney (CT)
     Maloney (NY)
     Markey
     Matsui
     McCarthy (MO)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McGovern
     McInnis
     McKinney
     Meek (FL)
     Menendez
     Millender-McDonald
     Mink
     Moore
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Owens
     Pascrell
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Rivers
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Sanchez
     Sanders
     Sawyer
     Schakowsky
     Shays
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Solis
     Souder
     Stark
     Stupak
     Thompson (CA)
     Towns
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Velazquez
     Waters
     Watson (CA)
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Wexler
     Woolsey
     Wu

                               NOES--321

     Aderholt
     Akin
     Allen
     Andrews
     Armey
     Bachus
     Baird
     Baker
     Baldacci
     Ballenger
     Barcia
     Barr
     Barrett
     Bartlett
     Bass
     Bentsen
     Bereuter
     Berry
     Biggert
     Bilirakis
     Bishop
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bonior
     Bono
     Borski
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (FL)
     Brown (OH)
     Brown (SC)
     Burr
     Buyer
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Camp
     Cannon
     Cantor
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carson (IN)
     Carson (OK)
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chambliss
     Clay
     Clayton
     Clement
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Collins
     Combest
     Condit
     Cooksey
     Costello
     Cox
     Coyne
     Cramer
     Crane
     Crenshaw
     Cubin
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Cunningham
     Davis (FL)
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Davis, Tom
     Deal
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     DeLay
     DeMint
     Deutsch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dicks
     Dooley
     Doolittle
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Edwards
     Ehlers
     Ehrlich
     Emerson
     English
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Everett
     Farr
     Fattah
     Flake
     Fletcher
     Foley
     Forbes
     Ford
     Fossella
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Ganske
     Gekas
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Gonzalez
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Gordon
     Goss
     Graham
     Granger
     Graves
     Green (TX)
     Green (WI)
     Greenwood
     Grucci
     Gutknecht
     Hall (TX)
     Hansen
     Harman
     Hart
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Herger
     Hilleary
     Hilliard
     Hinojosa
     Hobson
     Hoeffel
     Hoekstra
     Holden
     Horn
     Hostettler
     Hoyer
     Hunter
     Hutchinson
     Hyde
     Isakson
     Issa
     Istook
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Jenkins
     John
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Keller
     Kelly
     Kennedy (MN)
     Kerns
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     Kind (WI)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Kleczka
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     LaFalce
     LaHood
     Lampson
     Langevin
     Largent
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Lofgren
     Lucas (KY)
     Lucas (OK)
     Manzullo
     Mascara
     Matheson
     McCrery
     McDermott
     McHugh
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meeks (NY)
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller, Gary
     Miller, George
     Mollohan
     Moran (KS)
     Moran (VA)
     Morella
     Murtha
     Myrick
     Nethercutt
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Ortiz
     Osborne
     Ose
     Otter
     Oxley
     Pallone
     Pastor
     Paul
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Pence
     Peterson (MN)
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     Phelps
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Pombo
     Pomeroy
     Portman
     Price (NC)
     Pryce (OH)
     Quinn
     Radanovich
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Reynolds
     Riley
     Rodriguez
     Roemer
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Ross
     Rothman
     Roukema
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Ryun (KS)
     Sabo
     Sandlin
     Saxton
     Scarborough
     Schaffer
     Schiff
     Schrock
     Scott
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Sherman
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shows
     Shuster
     Simmons
     Simpson
     Skeen
     Skelton
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Spence
     Stearns
     Stenholm
     Strickland
     Stump
     Sununu
     Sweeney
     Tancredo
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Tauzin
     Taylor (MS)
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thompson (MS)
     Thornberry
     Thune
     Thurman
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Toomey
     Traficant
     Turner
     Upton
     Visclosky
     Vitter
     Walden
     Walsh

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     Wamp
     Watkins (OK)
     Watt (NC)
     Watts (OK)
     Weldon (FL)
     Weller
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson
     Wolf
     Wynn
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Barton
     Burton
     Houghton
     Platts
     Putnam
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Smith (TX)
     Spratt
     Thomas
     Weldon (PA)

                              {time}  1214

  Messrs. SMITH of Washington, BILIRAKIS, HOLDEN, SANDLIN, GANSKE, 
GRAVES, RODRIGUEZ, SCOTT and SHERMAN, and Mrs. MYRICK and Mrs. BIGGERT 
changed their vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  Messrs. STUPAK, KENNEDY of Rhode Island, SHAYS, BOSWELL, SOUDER, 
RANGEL, and HINCHEY and Ms. VELAZQUEZ changed their vote from ``no'' to 
``aye.''
  So the agreement was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                      Announcement by the Chairman

  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, the Chair announces 
he will reduce to a minimum of 5 minutes the period of time within 
which a vote by electronic device will be taken on each amendment on 
which the Chair has postponed further proceedings.


               Amendment Offered by Mr. Davis of Florida

  The CHAIRMAN. The pending business is the demand for a recorded vote 
on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Davis) on 
which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes 
prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The CHAIRMAN. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The CHAIRMAN. This will be a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 210, 
noes 213, not voting 10, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 205]

                               AYES--210

     Ackerman
     Allen
     Andrews
     Baca
     Baird
     Baldacci
     Baldwin
     Barcia
     Barrett
     Bartlett
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Bilirakis
     Blagojevich
     Blumenauer
     Bonior
     Borski
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brown (OH)
     Burr
     Buyer
     Camp
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Carson (IN)
     Carson (OK)
     Castle
     Clay
     Clayton
     Clement
     Conyers
     Costello
     Cox
     Coyne
     Crenshaw
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (FL)
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Deutsch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dooley
     Doyle
     Ehlers
     Ehrlich
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Evans
     Fattah
     Filner
     Foley
     Ford
     Frost
     Ganske
     Gephardt
     Gilchrest
     Gonzalez
     Goss
     Greenwood
     Gutierrez
     Hall (OH)
     Hall (TX)
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Hill
     Hinojosa
     Hoeffel
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Istook
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Johnson (CT)
     Jones (NC)
     Jones (OH)
     Kaptur
     Keller
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     Kind (WI)
     Kleczka
     Kucinich
     LaFalce
     LaHood
     Lampson
     Langevin
     Lantos
     Largent
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Leach
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Lofgren
     Lowey
     Lucas (KY)
     Lucas (OK)
     Luther
     Maloney (CT)
     Maloney (NY)
     Mascara
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (MO)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Menendez
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (FL)
     Moore
     Moran (VA)
     Morella
     Myrick
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Phelps
     Pomeroy
     Price (NC)
     Ramstad
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Rivers
     Rodriguez
     Roemer
     Ross
     Rothman
     Royce
     Rush
     Sanchez
     Sanders
     Sandlin
     Sawyer
     Scarborough
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Scott
     Serrano
     Shaw
     Shays
     Sherman
     Shows
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Solis
     Spratt
     Stearns
     Stenholm
     Strickland
     Stupak
     Sununu
     Tauscher
     Taylor (MS)
     Thompson (CA)
     Thurman
     Tierney
     Towns
     Turner
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Upton
     Velazquez
     Waters
     Watkins (OK)
     Watson (CA)
     Watt (NC)
     Watts (OK)
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Weldon (FL)
     Wexler
     Woolsey
     Wynn
     Young (FL)

                               NOES--213

     Abercrombie
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Armey
     Bachus
     Baker
     Ballenger
     Barr
     Bass
     Bentsen
     Bereuter
     Berman
     Berry
     Biggert
     Bishop
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bono
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (SC)
     Bryant
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Cannon
     Cantor
     Capito
     Chabot
     Chambliss
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Collins
     Combest
     Condit
     Cooksey
     Cramer
     Crane
     Cubin
     Culberson
     Cunningham
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Davis, Tom
     Deal
     Delahunt
     DeLay
     DeMint
     Dicks
     Doolittle
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Edwards
     Emerson
     English
     Everett
     Farr
     Ferguson
     Flake
     Fletcher
     Forbes
     Fossella
     Frank
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Gekas
     Gibbons
     Gillmor
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Gordon
     Graham
     Granger
     Graves
     Green (TX)
     Green (WI)
     Grucci
     Gutknecht
     Hansen
     Hart
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Herger
     Hilleary
     Hilliard
     Hinchey
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Holden
     Horn
     Hostettler
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Hutchinson
     Hyde
     Isakson
     Issa
     Jenkins
     John
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Kanjorski
     Kelly
     Kennedy (MN)
     Kerns
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     LoBiondo
     Manzullo
     Markey
     McCrery
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     Mica
     Miller, Gary
     Miller, George
     Mink
     Mollohan
     Moran (KS)
     Murtha
     Neal
     Nethercutt
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Ortiz
     Osborne
     Ose
     Otter
     Oxley
     Pastor
     Paul
     Pence
     Peterson (MN)
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Pombo
     Portman
     Pryce (OH)
     Quinn
     Radanovich
     Rahall
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Reynolds
     Riley
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Roukema
     Roybal-Allard
     Ryan (WI)
     Ryun (KS)
     Sabo
     Saxton
     Schaffer
     Schrock
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simmons
     Simpson
     Skeen
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Souder
     Spence
     Stark
     Stump
     Sweeney
     Tancredo
     Tanner
     Tauzin
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thompson (MS)
     Thornberry
     Thune
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Toomey
     Traficant
     Visclosky
     Vitter
     Walden
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Weller
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson
     Wolf
     Wu
     Young (AK)

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Barton
     Burton
     Gilman
     Houghton
     Platts
     Putnam
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Smith (TX)
     Thomas
     Weldon (PA)

                              {time}  1226

  Messrs. TAYLOR of North Carolina, KERNS, HOLDEN, SCHROCK and FORBES 
and Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas and Mrs. BIGGERT changed their 
vote from ``aye'' to ``no''.
  Mr. BUYER and Mr. HALL of Texas changed their vote from ``no'' to 
``aye''.
  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated for:
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Chairman, on rollcall No. 205, I was 
unavoidably detained. If present, I would have voted ``aye'' on 
rollcall No. 205.
  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, earlier today, I was unavoidably delayed 
during the vote on the Davis Amendment to H.R. 2299. Accordingly, I was 
unable to vote on rollcall No. 205. If I had been present I would have 
voted ``aye.'' I ask unanimous consent to have my statement placed in 
the Record at the appropriate point.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will read.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       This Act may be cited as the ``Energy and Water Development 
     Appropriations Act, 2002''.
  Mr. BENTSEN. Mr. Chairman, I rise in qualified support of H.R. 2311, 
the FY 2002 Energy and Water Appropriations bill.
  When the Budget Committee, on which I serve, considered the 
President's proposal and produced a budget, I knew it was going to be 
very hard for Congress to fund many important water transportation and 
flood control projects. I recognize the incredibly difficult 
circumstances Chairman Sonny Callahan, Ranking Member Peter Visclosky 
have endured in crafting this bill. I would also like to thank my good 
friend from Texas, Mr. Edwards, a distinguished Member of the 
Subcommittee, for all the help and information he and his office have 
provided me.
  In light of the dramatic budget cuts proposed for the Corps, I 
applaud the Subcommittee for funding the Brays Bayou flood control 
project at the Harris County Flood Control District's capability--$5 
million. When completed, the Brays Bayou project will be a national 
model for local control, community participation, flood damage 
reduction in a heavily populated urban watershed, and the creation of a 
large, multi-use greenway/detention area on the Willow Waterhole 
tributary. The Brays project is a demonstration project

[[Page H3737]]

for a new reimbursement program initiated by legislation I authored 
along with Mr. DeLay that was included in Section 211 of WRDA 1996. The 
program gives local sponsors more responsibility and flexibility, 
resulting in projects more efficient implementation in tune with local 
concerns.
  I am very encouraged that the Brays project is on track to be fully 
funded at $5 million in Fiscal Year 2002, rather than $4 million, as 
the Administration suggested. The project will improve flood protection 
for an extensively developed urban area along Brays Bayou in southwest 
Harris County including tens of thousands of residents in the flood 
plain, the Texas Medical Center, and Rice University. The entire 
project will provide three miles of channel improvements, three flood 
detention basins, and seven miles of stream diversion resulting in a 
25-year level of flood protection. Current funding is used for the 
detention element of the project. Originally authorized in the Water 
Resources Development Act of 1990 and reauthorized in 1996 as part of a 
$400 million federal/local flood control project, over $20 million has 
already been appropriated for the Brays Bayou Project.
  However, besides the admirable consideration the Subcommittee has 
given Brays Bayou, I believe this bill is spread too thin as a result 
of the extreme position taken by the Administration on the Army Corps 
of Engineers Construction account, which was slated to be cut $600 
million. Instead, my colleagues have lowered that cut to $70 million 
below the 2001 level. When I introduced an amendment to remedy this in 
the mark-up of the budget, I warned that Congress would not stand for 
such a large shortfall affecting public safety and navigational water 
projects. I am relieved that much of the proposed cut was restored, and 
I commend the Chairman and ranking Member for their effort.

  I appreciate that the Committee saw fit to fully fund the 
Administration's request for the Sims Bayou project. Unfortunately, the 
Administration did not request the full amount the Corps says is 
necessary to keep the project on schedule. My constituents are 
adversely affected by delayed work on the Sims Bayou. According to the 
Galveston District of the Corps, without funding the full $12 million 
capability of Corps for Sims, construction will fall behind schedule. 
This funding is needed because of the great risks people have faced and 
will continue to face until completion of the project in this highly 
populated watershed. The need was illustrated when Tropical Storm 
Allison caused great damage to thousands of homes in this watershed 
several weeks ago.
  The project is necessary to improve flood protection in the 
extensively developed urban area along Sims Bayou in southern Harris 
County. The Sims Bayou project consists of 19.3 miles of channel 
enlargement, rectification, and erosion control and will provide a 25-
year level of flood protection. Before the funding shortfall, the Sims 
Bayou project was scheduled to be completed two years ahead of schedule 
in 2009. We cannot be confident of that prediction unless Sims funding 
is raised to $12 million in the Senate version and the Conference 
Report.
  Flood control projects are necessary for the protection of life and 
property in Harris County, but improving navigation in our Port is an 
integral step for the rapid growth of our economy in the global 
marketplace. Therefore, Mr. Speaker, I am disappointed that this 
legislation provides only $30.8 out of the needed $46.8 million for 
continuing construction on the Houston Ship Channel expansion project. 
When completed, this project will generate tremendous economic and 
environmental benefits to the nation and will enhance one of our 
region's most important trade and economic centers.
  The Houston Ship Channel, one of the world's most heavily-trafficked 
ports, desperately needs expansion to meet the challenges of expanding 
global trade and to maintain its competitive edge as a major 
international port. Currently, the Port of Houston is the second 
largest port in the United States in total tonnage, and is a catalyst 
for the southeast Texas economy, contributing more than $5 billion 
annually and providing 200,000 jobs.
  The Houston Ship Channel expansion project calls for deepening the 
channel from 40 to 45 feet and widening it from 400 to 530 feet. The 
ship channel modernization, considered the largest dredging project 
since the construction of the Panama Canal, will preserve the Port of 
Houston's status as one of the premier deep-channel Gulf ports and one 
of the top transit points for cargo in the world. Besides the economic 
and safety benefits, the dredged material from the deepening and 
widening will be used to create 4,250 acres of wetland and bird habitat 
on Redfish Island. I want to take this opportunity to urge those who 
will be conferees on this legislation to fund the Port of Houston 
project to its capability. This project is supported by local voters, 
governments, chambers of commerce, and environmental groups.
  I thank all the subcommittee members, the Chairman, the Ranking 
Member, and especially Representative Edwards for their support and 
their work under tough budgetary circumstances.
  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of H.R. 2311, the 
fiscal year 2002 energy and water appropriations bill. I commend the 
committee's distinguished Chairman, Mr. Callahan for his diligence and 
work on this important fiscal year 2002 appropriations bill.
  H.R. 2213 is an important appropriations measure that funds our 
Nation's waterways, flood control, and irrigation infrastructure, as 
well as various important programs administered by the Department of 
the Energy.
  Included in this measure is $100,000 for the Ramapo-Mahwah flood 
control project. This project involves the construction of features for 
flood protection along the Ramapo and Mahwah Rivers in Mahwah, New 
Jersey and Sufferen, New York. Flooding has occurred frequently over 
the past 33 years, causing extensive damage. Accordingly, the inclusion 
of this funding will provide the Army Corps with the funding necessary 
to proceed forward with the first-step to initiate a refinement of the 
project's cost.
  Moreover, H.R. 2213 includes an appropriation of $3 million for the 
New York City Watershed Protection Program. Nine million New Yorker's 
receive their drinking water from the New York City watershed. 
Accordingly, it is imperative that public health and environmental 
concerns be addressed along the New York City watershed. This 
appropriation will provide assistance for New York State for the design 
and construction of water supply, storage, treatment and distribution 
facilities, and surface water resource protection and development 
projects.
  Accordingly, I urge all of my colleagues to support this important 
bill.
  Mr. NUSSLE. Mr. Chairman, I rise in favor of H.R. 2311, making 
appropriations for energy and water development for fiscal year 2002. 
This bill is consistent with the levels set forth in the budget 
resolution and complies with the Budget Act.
  H.R. 2311 provides $23.7 billion in discretionary budget authority 
and $24.9 in outlays for the Department of Energy, the Bureau of 
Reclamation and various independent agencies.
  This is a straightforward bill that neither designates emergencies 
nor provides advanced appropriations. The bill also does not rescind 
any previously enacted budget authority.
  The bill is within the 302(b) allocation of the Appropriations' 
Subcommittee on Energy and Water. It therefore complies with section 
302(f) of the Congressional Budget Act, which prohibits consideration 
of appropriations measures that exceed the appropriate subcommittee's 
302(b) allocation.
  On this basis, H.R. 2311 is worthy of our support.
  The CHAIRMAN. Under the previous order of the House, no further 
amendments are in order.
  Under the rule, the Committee rises.
  Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mrs. 
Biggert) having assumed the chair, Mr. Simpson, Chairman of the 
Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, reported that 
that Committee, having had under consideration the bill (H.R. 2311) 
making appropriations for energy and water development for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2002, and for other purposes, pursuant to 
House Resolution 180, he reported the bill back to the House with 
sundry amendments adopted by the Committee of the Whole.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the rule, the previous question is 
ordered.
  Is a separate vote demanded on any amendment? If not, the Chair will 
put them en gros.
  The amendments were agreed to.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the engrossment and third 
reading of the bill.
  The bill 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 bill.
  Under clause 10 of rule XX, the yeas and nays are ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 405, 
nays 15, not voting 13, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 206]

                               YEAS--405

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Allen
     Armey
     Baca
     Bachus
     Baird
     Baker
     Baldacci
     Baldwin
     Ballenger
     Barcia
     Barr
     Barrett
     Bartlett
     Bass
     Becerra
     Bentsen
     Bereuter
     Berman
     Berry
     Biggert
     Bilirakis
     Bishop
     Blagojevich
     Blumenauer
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bonior
     Bono
     Borski
     Boswell

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     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (FL)
     Brown (OH)
     Brown (SC)
     Bryant
     Burr
     Buyer
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Camp
     Cannon
     Cantor
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Carson (IN)
     Carson (OK)
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chambliss
     Clay
     Clayton
     Clement
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Collins
     Combest
     Condit
     Conyers
     Cooksey
     Costello
     Cox
     Coyne
     Cramer
     Crane
     Crenshaw
     Crowley
     Cubin
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Cunningham
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Davis, Tom
     Deal
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     DeLay
     DeMint
     Deutsch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Dooley
     Doolittle
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Edwards
     Ehlers
     Ehrlich
     Emerson
     Engel
     English
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Evans
     Everett
     Farr
     Fattah
     Ferguson
     Filner
     Fletcher
     Foley
     Forbes
     Ford
     Fossella
     Frank
     Frelinghuysen
     Frost
     Gallegly
     Ganske
     Gekas
     Gephardt
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Gonzalez
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Gordon
     Goss
     Graham
     Granger
     Graves
     Green (TX)
     Green (WI)
     Greenwood
     Grucci
     Gutknecht
     Hall (OH)
     Hall (TX)
     Hansen
     Harman
     Hart
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Herger
     Hill
     Hilleary
     Hilliard
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hobson
     Hoeffel
     Hoekstra
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley
     Horn
     Hoyer
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Hutchinson
     Hyde
     Inslee
     Isakson
     Israel
     Issa
     Istook
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Jenkins
     John
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Jones (OH)
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Keller
     Kelly
     Kennedy (MN)
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kerns
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     Kind (WI)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Kleczka
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Kucinich
     LaFalce
     LaHood
     Lampson
     Langevin
     Lantos
     Largent
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     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
     Matheson
     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
     Miller, George
     Mink
     Mollohan
     Moore
     Moran (VA)
     Morella
     Murtha
     Myrick
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nethercutt
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Osborne
     Ose
     Otter
     Owens
     Oxley
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Pence
     Peterson (MN)
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     Phelps
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Pombo
     Pomeroy
     Portman
     Price (NC)
     Pryce (OH)
     Quinn
     Radanovich
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Rangel
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Reyes
     Reynolds
     Riley
     Rivers
     Rodriguez
     Roemer
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Ross
     Rothman
     Roukema
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Ryan (WI)
     Ryun (KS)
     Sabo
     Sanchez
     Sanders
     Sandlin
     Sawyer
     Saxton
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrock
     Scott
     Serrano
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Sherman
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shows
     Shuster
     Simmons
     Simpson
     Skeen
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Solis
     Souder
     Spence
     Spratt
     Stark
     Stenholm
     Strickland
     Stump
     Stupak
     Sununu
     Sweeney
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Tauzin
     Taylor (MS)
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thornberry
     Thurman
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Toomey
     Towns
     Traficant
     Turner
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Upton
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Vitter
     Walden
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Waters
     Watkins (OK)
     Watson (CA)
     Watt (NC)
     Watts (OK)
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Weldon (FL)
     Weller
     Wexler
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson
     Wolf
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                                NAYS--15

     Andrews
     Berkley
     Flake
     Gibbons
     Hostettler
     Moran (KS)
     Paul
     Royce
     Scarborough
     Schaffer
     Sensenbrenner
     Shays
     Stearns
     Tancredo
     Thune

                             NOT VOTING--13

     Barton
     Burton
     Davis (FL)
     Doggett
     Gutierrez
     Houghton
     McCollum
     Platts
     Putnam
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Smith (TX)
     Thomas
     Weldon (PA)

                              {time}  1245

  So the bill 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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