[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 15 (Tuesday, January 28, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D62-D65]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Measures Introduced: 41 public bills, H.R. 394-434; 1 private bill, 
H.R. 435; and 15 resolutions, H.J Res. 15; H. Con. Res. 16-21, and H. 
Res. 33-40, were introduced.                              
  Pages H216-19
Additional Cosponsors:                                        
  Page H219
Speaker Pro Tempore: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he 
appointed Representative Terry to act as Speaker pro tempore for today.
                                                              Page H173
Recess: The House recessed at 11:05 a.m. and reconvened at 12 noon. 
                                                              Page H177
Committee Election--Majority Members: The House agreed to H. Res. 33, 
electing the following named majority members to standing committees of 
the House of Representatives:
  Committee on Agriculture: Representatives Combest, Boehner; Pombo; 
Smith of Michigan; Everett; Lucas of Oklahoma; Moran of Kansas; 
Jenkins; Gutknecht; Ose; Hayes; Pickering; Johnson of Illinois; 
Osborne; Pence; Rehberg; Graves; Putnam; Janklow; Burns; Bonner; Rogers 
of Alabama; King of Iowa; Chocola; Musgrave, and Nunes.
  Committee on Appropriations: Representatives Regula; Lewis of 
California; Rogers of Kentucky; Wolf; Kolbe; Walsh; Taylor of North 
Carolina; Hobson; Istook; Bonilla; Knollenberg; Kingston; 
Frelinghuysen; Wicker; Nethercutt; Cunningham; Tiahrt; Wamp; Latham; 
Northup; Aderholt; Emerson; Granger; Peterson of Pennsylvania; Goode; 
Doolittle; LaHood; Sweeney; Vitter; Sherwood; Weldon of Florida; 
Simpson; Culberson; Kirk and Crenshaw.
  Committee on Armed Services: Representatives Weldon of Pennsylvania; 
Hefley; Saxton; McHugh; Everett; Bartlett; McKeon; Thornberry; 
Hostettler; Jones of North Carolina; Ryun of Kansas; Gibbons; Hayes; 
Wilson of New Mexico; Calvert; Simmons; Jo Ann Davis of Virginia; 
Schrock; Akin; Forbes; Miller of Florida; Wilson of South Carolina; 
LoBiondo; Cole; Bradley of New Hampshire; Bishop of Utah; Turner of 
Ohio; Kline; Miller of Michigan; Gingrey; Rogers of Alabama and Franks 
of Arizona.
  Committee on the Budget: Representatives Gutknecht; Thornberry; Ryun 
of Kansas; Toomey; Hastings of Washington; Schrock; Brown of South 
Carolina; Putnam; Tancredo; Bonner; Franks of Arizona; Garrett; Barrett 
of South Carolina; McCotter; Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida and 
Hensarling.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce: Representatives Petri; 
Ballenger; Hoekstra; McKeon; Castle; Sam Johnson of Texas; Greenwood; 
Souder;

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Norwood; Upton; Ehlers; DeMint; Isakson; Biggert; Platts; Tiberi; 
Keller; Osborne; Wilson of South Carolina; Cole; Porter; Kline; Carter; 
Musgrave and Blackburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce: Representatives Bilirakis; Barton 
of Texas; Upton; Stearns; Gillmor; Greenwood; Cox; Deal of Georgia; 
Burr; Whitfield; Norwood; Cubin; Shimkus; Wilson of New Mexico; 
Shadegg; Pickering; Fossella; Blunt; Buyer; Radanovich; Bass; Pitts; 
Bono; Walden of Oregon; Terry; Fletcher; Ferguson; Rogers of Michigan; 
Issa and Otter.
  Committee on Financial Services: Representatives Leach; Bereuter; 
Baker; Bachus; Castle; King of New York; Royce; Lucas of Oklahoma; Ney, 
Kelly; Paul; Gillmor; Ryun of Kansas; LaTourette; Manzullo; Jones of 
North Carolina; Ose; Biggert; Green of Wisconsin; Toomey; Shays; 
Shadegg; Fossella; Gary Miller of California; Hart; Capito; Tiberi; 
Kennedy of Minnesota; Feeney; Hensarling; Garrett; Murphy; Ginny Brown-
Waite of Florida; Barrett of South Carolina; Harris and Renzi.
  Committee on Government Reform: Representatives Burton; Shays; Ros-
Lehtinen; McHugh; Mica; Souder; LaTourette; Ose; Lewis of Kentucky; Jo 
Ann Davis of Virginia; Platts; Cannon; Putnam; Schrock; Duncan; 
Sullivan; Deal of Georgia; Miller of Michigan; Murphy; Turner of Ohio; 
Carter; Janklow; and Blackburn.
  Committee on International Relations: Representatives Leach; 
Bereuter; Smith of New Jersey; Burton of Indiana; Gallegly; Ros-
Lehtinen; Ballenger; Rohrabacher; Royce; King of New York; Chabot; 
Houghton; McHugh; Tancredo; Paul; Smith of Michigan; Pitts; Flake; Jo 
Ann Davis of Virginia; Green of Wisconsin; Weller; Pence; McCotter; 
Janklow and Harris.
  Committee on the Judiciary: Representatives Hyde; Coble; Smith of 
Texas; Gallegly; Goodlatte; Chabot; Jenkins; Cannon; Bachus; 
Hostettler; Green of Wisconsin; Keller; Hart; Flake; Pence; Forbes; 
King of Iowa; Carter; Feeney and Blackburn.
  Committee on Resources: Representatives Young of Alaska; Tauzin; 
Saxton; Gallegly; Duncan; Hefley; Gilchrest; Calvert; McInnis; Cubin; 
Radanovich; Jones of North Carolina; Cannon; Peterson of Pennsylvania; 
Gibbons; Souder; Walden of Oregon; Tancredo; Hayworth; Osborne; Flake; 
Rehberg; Renzi; Cole; Pearce; Bishop of Utah and Nunes.
  Committee on Science: Representatives Smith of Texas; Shays; Weldon 
of Pennsylvania; Rohrabacher; Barton of Texas; Calvert; Smith of 
Michigan; Bartlett of Maryland; Ehlers; Gutknecht; Nethercutt; Lucas of 
Oklahoma; Biggert; Akin; Johnson of Illinois; Hart; Sullivan; Forbes; 
Gingrey; Bishop of Utah; Burgess and Bonner.
  Committee on Small Business: Representatives Combest; Bartlett of 
Maryland; Kelly; Chabot; Toomey; DeMint; Graves; Schrock; Akin; Capito; 
Shuster; Musgrave; Franks of Arizona; Gerlach; Bradley of New Hampshire 
and Beauprez.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure: Representatives 
Petri; Boehlert; Coble; Duncan; Gilchrest; Mica; Hoekstra; Quinn; 
Ehlers; Bachus; LaTourette; Kelly; Baker; Ney; LoBiondo; Moran of 
Kansas; Gary Miller of California; DeMint; Bereuter; Isakson; Hayes; 
Simmons; Capito; Brown of South Carolina; Johnson of Illinois; Rehberg; 
Platts; Graves; Kennedy of Minnesota; Shuster; Boozman; Sullivan; 
Chocola; Beauprez; Burgess; Burns; Pearce; Gerlach; Mario Diaz-Balart 
of Florida and Porter.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Representatives Bilirakis; Everett; 
Buyer; Quinn; Stearns; Moran of Kansas; Gibbons; Baker; Simmons; Brown 
of South Carolina; Miller of Florida; Boozman; Bradley of New 
Hampshire; Beauprez; Ginny Brown-Waite of Florida and Renzi.
  Committee on Ways and Means: Representatives Crane; Shaw; Johnson of 
Connecticut; Houghton; Herger; McCrery; Camp; Ramstad; Nussle; Sam 
Johnson of Texas; Dunn; Collins; Portman; English; Hayworth; Weller; 
Hulshof; McInnis; Lewis of Kentucky; Foley; Brady of Texas; Ryan of 
Wisconsin and Cantor.                                     
  Pages H177-78
Committee Election--Majority Members: The House agreed to H. Res. 33, 
electing the following named majority members to the Committee on House 
Administration: Representatives Ehlers, Mica, Linder, Doolittle, and 
Reynolds.                                                     
  Page H190
Committee Election Minority Members: The House agreed to H. Res. 35, 
electing the following named minority members, delegates, and resident 
commissioners to standing committees of the House of Representatives:
  Committee on Agriculture: Representatives Peterson of Minnesota, 
Dooley of California, Holden, Thompson of Mississippi, McIntyre, 
Etheridge, Boswell, Lucas of Kentucky, Hill, Baca, Larsen of 
Washington, Ross, and Acevedo-Vila.
  Committee on Appropriations: Representatives Murtha, Dicks, Sabo, 
Hoyer, Mollohan, Kaptur, Visclosky, Lowey, Serrano, DeLauro, Moran of 
Virginia, Olver, Pastor, Price of North Carolina, Edwards, Cramer, 
Kennedy of Rhode Island, Clyburn, Hinchey, Roybal-Allard, Farr, Jackson 
of Illinois, Kilpatrick, Boyd, Fattah, Rothman, Bishop of Georgia, and 
Berry.

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  Committee on Armed Services: Representatives Spratt, Ortiz, Evans, 
Taylor of Mississippi, Abercrombie, Meehan, Reyes, Snyder, Turner of 
Texas, Smith of Washington, Loretta Sanchez, McIntyre, Rodriguez, 
Tauscher, Brady of Pennsylvania, Andrews, Hill, Larson of Connecticut, 
Davis of California, and Langevin.
  Committee on the Budget: Representatives Moran of Virginia, Hooley of 
Oregon, Baldwin, Moore, Lewis of Georgia, Neal of Massachusetts, 
DeLauro, Edwards, Scott of Virginia, Ford, Capps, Thompson of 
California, Baird, Cooper, Meek of Florida, Emanuel, and Davis of 
Alabama.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce: Representatives Kildee, 
Owens, Payne, Andrews, Woolsey, Hinojosa, McCarthy of New York, 
Tierney, Kind, Loretta Sanchez, Kucinich, Wu, Holt, Davis of 
California, and McCollum.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce: Representatives Waxman, Markey, 
Hall, Boucher, Towns, Pallone, Brown of Ohio, Gordon, Deutsch, Rush, 
Eshoo, Stupak, Engel, Wynn, Green of Texas, McCarthy of Missouri, 
Strickland, DeGette, Capps, Doyle, John, Allen, Davis of Florida, 
Schakowsky, and Solis.
  Committee on Financial Services: Representatives Kanjorski, Waters, 
Maloney, Gutierrez, Velazquez, Watt, Ackerman, Hooley of Oregon, Carson 
of Indiana, Sherman, Meeks of New York, Lee, Inslee, Moore, Gonzalez, 
Capuano, Ford, Hinojosa, Lucas of Kentucky, Crowley, Clay, Israel, 
Ross, McCarthy of New York, Baca, Matheson, Lynch, Davis of Tennessee, 
Emanuel, Miller of North Carolina, and Scott of Georgia.
  Committee on Government Reform: Representatives Lantos, Owens, Towns, 
Kanjorski, Maloney, Norton, Cummings, Kucinich, Davis of Illinois, 
Tierney, Turner of Texas, Clay, Watson, and Lynch.
  Committee on International Relations: Representatives Berman, 
Ackerman, Faleomavaega, Payne, Menendez, Brown of Ohio, Sherman, 
Wexler, Engel, Delahunt, Meeks of New York, Lee, Crowley, Hoeffel, 
Blumenauer, Berkley, Napolitano, Schiff, and Watson.
  Committee on the Judiciary: Representatives Berman, Boucher, Nadler, 
Scott of Virginia, Watt, Lofgren, Jackson-Lee of Texas, Waters, Meehan, 
Delahunt, Wexler, Baldwin, Weiner, Schiff, and Linda T. Sanchez.
  Committee on Resources: Representatives George Miller of California, 
Markey, Kildee, DeFazio, Faleomavaega, Abercrombie, Ortiz, Pallone, 
Dooley of California, Smith of Washington, Christensen, Kind, Inslee, 
Napolitano, Udall of New Mexico, Udall of Colorado, Acevedo-Vila, and 
Carson of Oklahoma.
  Committee on Science: Representatives Gordon, Costello, Eddie Bernice 
Johnson of Texas, Woolsey, Lofgren, Jackson-Lee of Texas, Etheridge, 
Lampson, Larson of Connecticut, Udall of Colorado, Wu, Baird, Israel, 
and Honda.
  Committee on Small Business: Representatives Millender-McDonald, 
Davis of Illinois, Pascrell, Christensen, Brady of Pennsylvania, Udall 
of New Mexico, Gonzalez, and Langevin.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure: Representatives 
Rahall, Lipinski, DeFazio, Costello, Norton, Nadler, Menendez, Corrine 
Brown of Florida, Filner, Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, Taylor of 
Mississippi, Millender-McDonald, Cummings, Blumenauer, Tauscher, 
Pascrell, Boswell, Holden, Lampson, Baird, Berkley, Carson of Oklahoma, 
Matheson, Honda, Larsen of Washington, Capuano, Weiner, Carson of 
Indiana, Hoeffel, Thompson of California, Bishop of New York, Michaud, 
and Davis of Tennessee.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Representatives Filner, Gutierrez, 
Corrine Brown of Florida, Snyder, and Rodriguez.
  Committee on Ways and Means: Representatives Stark, Matsui, Levin, 
Cardin, McDermott, Kleczka, Lewis of Georgia, Neal of Massachusetts, 
McNulty, Jefferson, Tanner, Becerra, Doggett, Pomeroy, Sandlin, and 
Jones of Ohio.                                            
  Pages H210-11
Committee Election--Minority Member: The House agreed to H. Res. 36, 
electing Representative Sanders to the Committees on Financial Services 
and Government Reform.                                        
  Page H211
Making Further Continuing Appropriations: The House passed H.J. Res. 
13, making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2003, 
by voice vote.                                            
  Pages H180-90
  Rejected the Obey motion that sought to recommit the joint resolution 
to the Committee on Appropriations with instructions to report it back 
to the House promptly with an amendment that provides additional 
funding for state and local first responders homeland security grants 
and health screening and long-term medical monitoring of emergency 
response and recovery personnel exposed to toxic substances at the 
World Trade Center site by a recorded vote of 201 ayes to 222 noes, 
Roll No. 16.                                              
Pages H189-90
  Agreed to table the Obey motion to appeal the ruling of the chair by 
a yea-and-nay vote of 222 yeas to 196 nays, Roll No. 15. Earlier, the 
Chair sustained a point of order against a motion offered by

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Representative Obey to recommit the joint resolution to the Committee 
on Appropriations with instructions to report it back to the House 
forthwith with an amendment that provided an additional $3.5 billion 
for state and local first responders homeland security grants and an 
additional $90 million for health screening and long-term medical 
monitoring of emergency response and recovery personnel exposed to 
toxic substances at the World Trade Center site. Representative Putnam 
raised the point of order stating that the proposed motion violated 
section 302(c) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.       
Page H188
  Earlier agreed to H. Res. 29, the rule providing for consideration of 
the joint resolution by voice vote.                       
Pages H179-80
Recess: The House recessed at 4:21 p.m. and reconvened at 8:44 p.m. for 
the purpose of receiving the President of the United States in a Joint 
Session.                                                      
  Page H211
President Bush's State of the Union Address: President George W. Bush 
delivered his State of the Union address to a joint session of 
Congress, pursuant to the provisions of H. Con. Res. 12. He was 
escorted into the House Chamber by a committee comprised of 
Representatives DeLay, Pryce, Cox, Kingston, Pelosi, Hoyer, Menendez, 
Clyburn and Senators Frist, McConnell, Santorum, Kyl, Allen, Warner, 
Daschle, Reid of Nevada, Mikulski, and Breaux. The President's message 
was referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the 
Union and ordered printed as a House Document (H. Doc. 108-1). 
                                                          Pages H211-15
Quorum Calls--Votes: One yea-and-nay vote and one recorded vote 
developed during the proceedings of the House today and appear on pages 
H188 and H189-90. There were no quorum calls.
Adjournment: The House met at 10:30 a.m. and adjourned at 10:11 p.m.