[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 20210-20214]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 1905, LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 
                                  2000

  Mr. TAYLOR of North Carolina. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to the previous 
order of the House, I call up the conference report on the bill (H.R. 
1905) making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2000, and for other purposes.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the order of the House of today, 
the conference report is considered read.
  (For conference report and statement, see prior proceedings of the 
House of today.)
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. 
Taylor) and the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Pastor) each will control 
10 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Taylor).
  Mr. TAYLOR of North Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time 
as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to present the conference report on the 
FY 2000 Legislative Branch Appropriations bill, H.R. 1905. I would like 
to thank the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Pastor), our ranking member, 
all members of the committee and our staff for the work they have done 
on this.
  Mr. Speaker, I would like to summarize the conference report by 
pointing out that the $2.4 billion in new budget authority to the 
Congress and support agencies and offices of the legislative branch, 
this is $165 million below the amount requested in the President's 
budget. Our bill is 6.3 percent below the President's request. It is 
4.8 percent below the amount that was appropriated last year. It is 
almost 6 percent below the amount appropriated in 1995. We have also 
declined the number of FTEs almost 16 percent, almost 4,400 fewer jobs 
than we had 5 years ago. This has been hard work. We owe our 
predecessors a lot of the credit, but this committee has done well.
  In summary, the bill I think has reduced this area of government, but 
it is adequate for our purposes. I urge the adoption of the conference 
report.
  Mr. Speaker, I include the following for the Record.

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  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. PASTOR. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, before I yield back the balance of my time, I would like 
to take a few minutes to thank the Subcommittee on Legislative staff on 
both sides of the aisle. They worked very hard to get this bill done. I 
also would like to thank the chairman, who was very fair as we worked 
this bill through from subcommittee to conference. We worked in a 
bipartisan manner. I want to thank the gentleman for doing that. I 
congratulate him on this conference.
  I would also ask my colleagues to support and adopt the conference 
report.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Massachusetts 
(Mr. Frank).
  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, I apologize, I had hoped to 
do this in a one minute today, but we did not have them.
  Mr. Speaker, as Members know, I had surgery, and I just did not want 
to go home without acknowledging the extraordinary service I was the 
beneficiary of, not just from the medical staff, the attending 
physician and his people, but in particular the nurses and corpsmen.
  I will have to confess that under the stress of illness, I slipped a 
bit from my usual level of congeniality, so I may not have been 
entirely pleasurable company for the entire stay, and the skill and 
graciousness with which they ignored that and administered to me 
deserves some attention. So I want to just thank the attending 
physician, the cardiologist, Dr. Ferguson, the cardiac surgeon, we are 
very well served, and the young men and women in uniform who performed 
extraordinarily well.
  Finally, I want to thank my colleagues for a degree of graciousness, 
that probably would come as a surprise to people whose only knowledge 
of this place comes from the newspapers, but it would not be to any of 
us. Thank you.
  Mr. PASTOR. Mr. Speaker, I urge an aye vote.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. TAYLOR of North Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I have no further requests 
for time, I yield back the balance of my time, and I move the previous 
question on the conference report.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the order of the House today, 
the previous question is ordered.
  The question is on the conference report.
  Pursuant to clause 10 of rule XX, the yeas and nays are ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 367, 
nays 49, not voting 17, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 389]

                               YEAS--367

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Allen
     Andrews
     Archer
     Armey
     Bachus
     Baker
     Baldacci
     Baldwin
     Ballenger
     Barcia
     Barrett (NE)
     Barrett (WI)
     Bartlett
     Barton
     Bass
     Bateman
     Becerra
     Bentsen
     Bereuter
     Berman
     Biggert
     Bilirakis
     Bishop
     Blagojevich
     Bliley
     Blumenauer
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bonior
     Bono
     Borski
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (FL)
     Brown (OH)
     Bryant
     Burr
     Burton
     Buyer
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canady
     Cannon
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Castle
     Chambliss
     Clayton
     Clement
     Clyburn
     Collins
     Combest
     Condit
     Conyers
     Cook
     Cooksey
     Costello
     Cox
     Coyne
     Cramer
     Crane
     Crowley
     Cubin
     Cummings
     Cunningham
     Danner
     Davis (FL)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (VA)
     Deal
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     DeLay
     Diaz-Balart
     Dickey
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Dixon
     Dooley
     Doolittle
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Edwards
     Ehlers
     Ehrlich
     Emerson
     Engel
     English
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Evans
     Everett
     Ewing
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Fletcher
     Foley
     Forbes
     Ford
     Fossella
     Fowler
     Frank (MA)
     Franks (NJ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Frost
     Gallegly
     Ganske
     Gejdenson
     Gekas
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Gonzalez
     Goodlatte
     Goodling
     Gordon
     Goss
     Granger
     Greenwood
     Gutierrez
     Gutknecht
     Hall (OH)
     Hall (TX)
     Hansen
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Herger
     Hill (IN)
     Hill (MT)
     Hilleary
     Hilliard
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hobson
     Hoeffel
     Hoekstra
     Holden
     Holt
     Hooley
     Horn
     Hostettler
     Houghton
     Hoyer
     Hunter
     Hutchinson
     Hyde
     Isakson
     Istook
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Jenkins
     John
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson, E.B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (OH)
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kasich
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     Kilpatrick
     Kind (WI)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kleczka
     Klink
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Kucinich
     Kuykendall
     LaFalce
     LaHood
     Lampson
     Largent
     Larson
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Lazio
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (GA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Lofgren
     Lowey
     Lucas (OK)
     Maloney (CT)
     Markey
     Martinez
     Mascara
     Matsui
     McCarthy (MO)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McCrery
     McGovern
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McIntosh
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Menendez
     Metcalf
     Mica
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (FL)
     Miller, Gary
     Miller, George
     Minge
     Mink
     Moakley
     Moore
     Moran (VA)
     Morella
     Myrick
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nethercutt
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ose
     Owens
     Oxley
     Packard
     Pallone
     Pastor
     Payne
     Pease
     Pelosi
     Phelps
     Pickering
     Pickett
     Pitts
     Pombo
     Pomeroy
     Porter
     Portman
     Price (NC)
     Pryce (OH)
     Quinn
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Reyes
     Reynolds
     Riley
     Rivers
     Rodriguez
     Roemer
     Rogan
     Rogers
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Rothman
     Roukema
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Sabo
     Salmon
     Sanchez
     Sanders
     Sandlin
     Sawyer
     Saxton
     Scarborough
     Schakowsky
     Scott
     Serrano
     Sessions
     Shaw
     Sherman
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sisisky
     Skeen
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Snyder
     Spence
     Stabenow
     Stearns
     Stupak
     Sununu
     Sweeney
     Talent
     Tancredo
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Tauzin
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thomas
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thornberry
     Thurman
     Tiahrt
     Tierney
     Towns
     Traficant
     Turner
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Upton
     Velazquez
     Vento
     Visclosky
     Walden
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Waters
     Watkins
     Watt (NC)
     Watts (OK)
     Weiner
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Wexler
     Weygand
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson
     Wise
     Wolf
     Woolsey
     Wynn
     Young (AK)

                                NAYS--49

     Aderholt
     Baird
     Barr
     Berkley
     Berry
     Carson
     Chabot
     Chenoweth
     Coble
     Coburn
     DeMint
     Deutsch
     Doggett
     Goode
     Graham
     Green (TX)
     Green (WI)
     Hulshof
     Inslee
     Jones (NC)
     Kildee
     Lucas (KY)
     Luther
     Maloney (NY)
     Manzullo
     Moran (KS)
     Pascrell
     Paul
     Peterson (MN)
     Petri
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Ryun (KS)
     Sanford
     Schaffer
     Sensenbrenner
     Shadegg
     Shays
     Shows
     Smith (WA)
     Souder
     Stenholm
     Strickland
     Stump
     Taylor (MS)
     Thune
     Toomey
     Vitter
     Wu

                             NOT VOTING--17

     Bilbray
     Clay
     Gephardt
     Lantos
     Leach
     Linder
     McDermott
     Mollohan
     Murtha
     Ortiz
     Peterson (PA)
     Radanovich
     Rangel
     Spratt
     Stark
     Waxman
     Young (FL)

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  So the conference report was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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