[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 83 (Thursday, June 20, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D652-D653]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Measures Introduced: 12 public bills, H.R. 4970-4981; 1 private bill, 
H.R. 4982; and 4 resolutions, H.J. Res. 100 and H. Res. 452-454, were 
introduced.
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Reports Filed: Reports were filed as follows:
  H.R. 1606, to amend section 507 of the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands 
Management Act of 1996 to authorize additional appropriations for 
historically black colleges and universities, and to decrease the 
matching requirement related to such appropriations, amended (H. Rept. 
107-519);
  H.R. 2733, to authorize the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology to work with major manufacturing industries on an initiative 
of standards development and implementation for electronic enterprise 
integration, amended (H. Rept. 107-520);

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  H.R. 4854, to reauthorize and reform the national service laws, 
amended (H. Rept. 107-521); and
  H. Res. 451, providing for consideration of H.R. 4931, to provide 
that the pension and individual retirement arrangement provisions of 
the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 shall be 
permanent (H. Rept. 107-522).
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Guest Chaplain: The prayer was offered by the Most Reverend Oscar H. 
Lipscomb, Archbishop of Mobile, Alabama.
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Journal: Agreed to the Speaker's approval of the Journal of Wednesday, 
June 19 by a yea-and-nay vote of 352 yeas to 50 nays, Roll No. 239. 
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President's Export Council: The Chair announced the Speaker's 
appointment of Representatives English, Pickering, Hayes, Inslee, and 
Wu to the President's Export Council.
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Small Airport Safety, Security, and Air Service Improvement Act: The 
House passed H.R. 1079, to amend title 49, United States Code, to 
provide assistance for the construction of certain air traffic control 
towers by a yea-and-nay vote of 284 yeas to 143 nays, Roll No. 243. 
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  Pursuant to the rule, the amendment in the nature of a substitute 
recommended by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure now 
printed in the bill, H. Rept. 107-496, was considered as an original 
bill for the purposes of amendment.
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Agreed To:
  Nethercutt amendment that requires a study on the feasibility, costs, 
and benefits of allowing the sponsor of an airport to use up to 10% of 
Airport Improvement Program funds to pay the non-Federal cost of 
operating an air traffic control tower (agreed to by a recorded vote of 
415 ayes to 12 noes, Roll No. 242).
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Rejected:
  Oberstar amendment that sought to strike provisions that allow the 
Secretary of Transportation to use Airport Improvement Program grants 
to reimburse airports for the cost of construction or improvement of a 
nonapproach control tower incurred after October 1, 1996 and to 
reimburse airports for the cost of acquiring and installing in that 
tower air traffic control, communications, and related equipment that 
was acquired or installed after October 1, 1996 (rejected by a recorded 
vote of 202 ayes to 223 noes, Roll No. 241).
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  Agreed to H. Res. 447, the rule that provided for consideration of 
the bill by a yea-and-nay vote of 419 yeas with none voting ``nay,'' 
Roll No. 240.
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Senate Messages: Message received from the Senate today appears on page 
H3724.
Referrals: S. Con. Res. 110 was referred to the Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure and S. Con. Res. 114 was held at the 
desk.
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Quorum Calls--Votes: Three yea-and-nay votes and two recorded votes 
developed during the proceedings of the House today and appear on pages 
H3723-24, H3735-36, H3747-48, H3748-49, and H3749. There were no quorum 
calls.
Adjournment: The House met at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 6:42 p.m.