[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 15666-15670]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



    PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 4871, TREASURY AND GENERAL 
                  GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2001

  Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I 
call up House Resolution 560 and ask for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                              H. Res. 560

       Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this 
     resolution the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule 
     XVIII, declare the House resolved into the Committee of the 
     Whole House on the state of the Union for consideration of 
     the bill (H.R. 4871) making appropriations for the Treasury 
     Department, the United States Postal Service, the Executive 
     Office of the President, and certain Independent Agencies, 
     for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and for other 
     purposes. The first reading of the bill shall be dispensed 
     with. All points of order against consideration of the bill 
     are waived. General debate shall be confined to the bill and 
     shall not exceed one hour equally divided and controlled by 
     the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on 
     Appropriations. After general debate the bill shall be 
     considered for amendment under the five-minute rule. Points 
     of order against provisions in the bill for failure to comply 
     with clause 2 of rule XXI are waived except as follows: page 
     62, line 17, through page 63, line 2. During the 
     consideration of the bill for amendment, the Chairman of the 
     Committee of the Whole may accord priority in recognition on 
     the basis of whether the Member offering an amendment has 
     caused it to be printed in the portion of the Congressional 
     Record designated for that purpose in clause 8 of rule XVIII. 
     Amendments so printed shall be considered as read. The 
     Chairman of the Committee of the Whole may: (1) postpone 
     until a time during further consideration in the Committee of 
     the Whole a request for a recorded vote on any amendment; and 
     (2) reduce to five minutes the minimum time for electronic 
     voting on any postponed question that follows another 
     electronic vote without intervening business, provided that 
     the minimum time for electronic voting on the first in any 
     series of questions shall be 15 minutes. At the conclusion of 
     consideration of the bill for amendment the Committee shall 
     rise and report the bill to the House with such amendments as 
     may have been adopted. The previous question shall be 
     considered as ordered on the bill and amendments thereto to 
     final passage without intervening motion except one motion to 
     recommit with or without instructions.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Linder) is 
recognized for 1 hour.
  Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, for the purpose of debate only, I yield the 
customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Hall), pending 
which I

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yield myself such time as I may consume. During consideration of this 
resolution, all time yielded is for the purpose of debate only.
  Mr. Speaker, House Resolution 560 is an open rule providing for the 
consideration of H.R. 4871, the Treasury and General Government 
Appropriations Bill for fiscal year 2001.
  The rule provides for 1 hour of general debate divided equally 
between the chairman and ranking minority Member of the Committee on 
Appropriations.
  The rule also waives clause 2 of rule XXI, which prohibits 
unauthorized appropriations and legislation on an appropriations bills, 
with regard to the bill.
  Additionally, this rule accords priority in recognition to Members 
who have preprinted their amendments in the Congressional Record. This 
encourages Members to take advantage of the option to facilitate 
consideration of amendments and to inform Members of the details of 
pending amendments.
  The rule also provides that the Chairman of the Committee of the 
Whole may postpone recorded votes on any amendment and that the 
Chairman may reduce voting time on postponed questions to 5 minutes, 
provided that the votes immediately follow another recorded vote, and 
that the voting time on the first in a series of votes is not less than 
15 minutes.
  House Resolution 560 also provides for one motion to recommit, with 
or without instructions, as is the right of minority Members of the 
House.
  Mr. Speaker, H.R. 560 is an open rule, similar to those considered 
for other appropriations bills. It will afford a fair and complete 
debate on the issues surrounding the underlying legislation.
  H.R. 4871 continues the trend of this Congress by funding our 
national priorities while ensuring fiscal responsibility and a balanced 
budget. The bill increases funding for $678 million over last year's 
appropriation, placing a priority on enhancing law enforcement 
priorities such as school violence prevention, international child 
pornography trafficking, and strict enforcement of our existing gun 
laws.
  The bill also continues our commitment to the war on drugs by 
maintaining spending for drug technology transfers to our allies in the 
fight against narcotraffickers; ensuring ongoing efforts to partner 
with local law enforcement and providing an additional $12.5 million to 
attack drug smuggling across our borders.
  Mr. Speaker, H.R. 4871 funds 40 percent of the law enforcement 
activities of the Federal Government, and it successfully maximizes the 
impact of America's investment in those worthy initiatives.
  Mr. Speaker, I congratulate the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Kolbe) 
for his hard work on this legislation. I urge my colleagues to support 
this fair, open rule and the underlying bill.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he might consume to the gentleman 
from Kentucky (Mr. Fletcher) for a parliamentary inquiry.


                         Parliamentary Inquiry

  Mr. FLETCHER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. 
Linder) for yielding me the time.
  Mr. Speaker, I have a parliamentary inquiry.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will state it.
  Mr. FLETCHER. Mr. Speaker, if the previous question on the rule is 
defeated, would it be in order for a Member to offer an amendment to 
the rule?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair would recognize the Member who led 
the opposition to ordering the previous question for the purposes of 
offering an amendment to the resolution, if the previous question were 
not ordered.
  Mr. FLETCHER. Mr. Speaker, as I continue, I plan on leading the fight 
against the previous question. I want to inform my colleagues that I 
intend to oppose the previous question and encourage them to do so. If 
it is defeated, I intend to offer an amendment to rescind the Member 
COLA.
  Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. HALL of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Linder) 
for yielding me the time.
  Mr. Speaker, this is an open rule which will allow for the 
consideration of H.R. 4871. As my colleague from Georgia has explained, 
this rule provides for 1 hour of general debate to be equally divided 
and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority Member on the 
Committee on Appropriations.
  This allows germane amendments under the 5-minute rule, which is the 
normal amending process in the House. All Members on both sides of the 
aisle will have the opportunity to offer amendments that do not violate 
the rules for appropriations bills.

                              {time}  1345

  Mr. Speaker, this is an important bill. It is one that funds 
executive branch agencies important to the ongoing activities of the 
Government and through the Treasury Department funds are provided to 
bureaus and offices that make our money, that pay our debts and collect 
our taxes.
  I am disappointed that overall the bill provides for $2.1 billion 
below the administration's request. There are significant funding 
shortfalls in a number of important areas, including our government's 
counterterrorism programs and the Internal Revenue Service's 
restructuring efforts.
  However, there are a number of significant provisions in this bill. 
The measure provides for $76 million to expand the Youth Crime Gun 
Interdiction Initiative and to assist State and local governments in 
tracing firearms. It provides $185 million to the National Youth 
Antidrug Media Campaign, which has been a proven campaign to prevent 
drug abuse among our Nation's young people, and it provides an increase 
in funds for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
  In addition, Mr. Speaker, this bill contains an immensely important 
provision that I have worked on for some time with my colleague, the 
gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Wolf). The Wolf amendment addresses the 
widespread problem of conflict diamonds in Africa.
  The language prohibits the U.S. Customs Service from using any funds 
in the bill to allow diamonds from certain conflict regions in Africa 
from entering the stream of U.S. commerce.
  Mr. Speaker, this provision was not protected against a point of 
order by the Committee on Rules due to jurisdictional concerns raised 
by my colleagues on the Committee on Ways and Means. I have received 
assurances, as the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Wolf) has, too, 
however, that the Committee on Ways and Means will hold a hearing on 
this subject prior to final enactment of the treasury postal 
appropriations bill.
  Based on these good-faith assurances and a commitment by my 
colleague, the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Crane), I did not offer a 
motion to the rule last night to waive points of order against the Wolf 
provision. I appreciate my colleagues' cooperation in holding a 
hearing, and I urge them to schedule it without delay.
  This is important because rebel groups, particularly those in Sierra 
Leone, are killing and maiming their own people in a battle to control 
the diamond mines, and these groups are becoming rich overnight by 
trading illegally seized diamonds for arms and then brutalizing their 
people. In Sierra Leone, these rebels transformed themselves from a 
ragtag group of people of 400 to a force of 25,000 soldiers that has 
made hundreds of millions of dollars from these diamonds, and they have 
killed more than 70,000 people.
  Mr. Speaker, I visited Sierra Leone last year where I personally 
witnessed the atrocities committed by rebels. I met with victims who 
had their arms and hands cut off because they supported democracy; 
children who were drugged and forced to kill their parents and others; 
girls who were routinely raped. Atrocities like these are funded 
through illegal diamond smuggling, and by allowing the importation of 
these conflict diamonds from Sierra Leone and other countries who are 
involved in diamond smuggling, we are turning a blind eye to a 
situation most law-abiding citizens would abhor.
  American consumers buy diamonds as tokens of love and commitment and

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not as parties to atrocities. Last year my colleague, the gentleman 
from Virginia (Mr. Wolf), and I introduced legislation to require the 
disclosure of a diamond's country of origin. The measure was intended 
to provide American consumers, who buy 70 percent of all the diamonds 
in the world, the information they need and want in order to buy 
legitimate diamonds.
  Two weeks ago the United States voted for a U.N. resolution calling 
for an embargo on conflict diamonds from Sierra Leone and the language 
in the bill before us today implements that policy by barring these 
black market diamonds from entering our country. It is a bold step, of 
course, and one that I support.
  Again, I would emphasize the importance of congressional hearings on 
conflict diamonds by the Committee on Ways and Means. Mr. Speaker, we 
cannot allow jurisdictional issues in the House to supersede the fact 
that innocent people are losing their lives in Sierra Leone and other 
African countries.
  Mr. Speaker, the rule was approved by voice vote in the Committee on 
Rules last night.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Kentucky (Mr. Fletcher).
  Mr. FLETCHER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. 
Linder) for yielding me this time.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise to express my opposition to the rule on the 
Treasury Postal appropriations bill because it does not make in order 
an amendment to disallow the cost of living adjustment for Members of 
Congress. It is my intention to ask my colleagues to defeat the 
previous question on this rule so that we will have an opportunity to 
amend the rule and make this amendment in order.
  The pay raise, I believe, is inappropriate at this time and 
unnecessary. A 2.7 percent pay increase would increase the salaries of 
Members by almost $4,000. The total price tag to American taxpayers is 
$2.1 million.
  Now where I come from, the average salary for a family in my district 
is about $25,000, and this $2.1 million in the pay increase that would 
occur here is a lot of money to the folks back in Kentucky.
  Now we have come a long way in Washington over the last few years, 
balancing the budget, preserving Social Security and Medicare and 
reducing the debt; and yet I believe there is still a lot more that can 
be done.
  With a balanced budget and surpluses as far as the eye can see, I 
believe we must focus on strengthening America, paying down the debt, 
and giving more money back to the American worker.
  I've worked closely with the folks in the 6th District to accomplish 
a great deal these past two short years. That's because I came to 
Washington to fight for their needs, concerns, and issues, not for 
another pay raise.
  I find it very disturbing when we just had a vote on eliminating the 
marriage penalty tax, when I see 155 Democrat Members who voted against 
giving families, married couples, a $1,400 average tax reduction a year 
and yet those same individuals will probably vote to increase the COLA 
and give themselves a $4,000-a-year increase in pay. I find that very 
disturbing.
  That is the reason I am rising, Mr. Speaker, to oppose the previous 
question; would ask my colleagues to vote against the previous 
question, and I want them to understand that a vote against the 
previous question is a vote to rescind the COLA and to allow an 
amendment to be in order.
  Mr. HALL of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman 
from Michigan (Ms. Rivers).
  Ms. RIVERS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak about the Members' 
annual cost of living allowance, not to oppose it but to talk about the 
procedure we are using to consider it.
  During my time in Congress, we have addressed this issue several 
times. In 1997, I opposed the increase because the Federal budget was 
in deficit, and we were proposing massive cuts to programs that 
everyday people rely upon. I was also concerned about the process the 
House employed in considering the COLA. I was unhappy that there was 
little public debate on the issue and only a procedural rather than a 
straight yes or no vote.
  In 1999, the procedure was the same. Again, I was uncomfortable; and 
as I did with the 1996 COLA, I did not accept the increase and returned 
the net amount to the Treasury.
  Now, many Members argue that COLA is not a raise per se and that the 
statute automatically authorizes implementation without requirement of 
debate or vote. Several point out that COLAs for other workers operate 
in just this fashion. This is true. It is absolutely correct. However, 
we are not like other workers. One hundred percent of our costs, both 
for employment and office expenses, are borne by the taxpayers. We also 
set our own salaries, and we have no direct employer or supervisor, 
except the public in the collective.
  Few workers in this country enjoy such circumstances. We have the 
luxury through our own action, or in this case inaction, to alter the 
amount of money we earn. Given that, I believe a substantive vote on 
the COLA is the appropriate way to handle the annual increases. 
Nevertheless, it does not appear that my views are likely to prevail on 
this issue, although I will continue to promote a direct vote.
  Mr. Speaker, I am not opposed to the COLA itself. I believe that 
Members can justify a 2.7 percent increase in their wages, but I also 
believe that the taxpayers who pay our salaries have a right to ask for 
that justification. In order to do so, however, they must be able to 
understand the House's action relative to its compensation.
  I am not here to criticize or demean the hard work of the good people 
with whom I serve in this body. Nor do I wish to disparage the views of 
those who disagree with me. I have a personal sense of propriety that 
we should be doing this publicly. I am making it clear to my 
constituents that we are indeed voting to raise our salary.
  Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Montana (Mr. Hill).
  Mr. HILL of Montana. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Georgia 
(Mr. Linder) for yielding me the time.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to join with others to protest the process 
that we are using here with regard to the issue of the pay raise, so I 
intend to vote no on the previous question. I also intend to vote no on 
the rule.
  I oppose the rule because it is in the process of making the rule 
that we were denied the opportunity of whether or not we would be able 
to vote on this pay raise or not. Those who are opposed to the pay 
raise would probably then want to vote no on the previous question, 
which I intend to do as well. This really is not a debate about whether 
we should get a pay raise or not. In fact, I think one could make a 
case for why we ought to have a pay raise.
  This has been a very, very productive Congress, particularly this 
year. We have balanced the budget I think the third year in a row. We 
have reformed welfare. We have extended the life of Social Security and 
Medicare. We passed a prescription drug benefit, several tax reduction 
bills. We passed the appropriation bills in record time and the budget 
as well, but the real issue here is whether or not we ought to vote 
every year on whether we get this pay raise or we do not.
  I think the point here is that there are very few Americans who get 
an automatic pay raise, and there are even fewer Americans who get to 
decide whether or not their pay is going to go up or it is going to go 
down. The rule did not make in order an opportunity for us to vote on 
this.
  Now, when I was an employee, I never went to my employer and said, I 
did not do a good job but I want a pay raise. No, I went to them and 
said, I think I have been doing a good job. I think I have earned it, 
and I think I deserve a pay raise.
  I never, as an employer, had an employee come to me and say, I want a 
pay raise but I do not think I earned it. If they did, I do not think I 
would have granted them a pay raise.
  No, we have an obligation to convince the person who controls our pay

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that we deserve it, and we ought to do that with our constituents. We 
ought to go back to our constituents and say, look, I think I have 
earned a pay raise, and justify it to the people who hired us, the 
people who elect us to be here. So I think it is wrong for us to avoid 
the opportunity to vote on whether or not we ought to have a pay raise 
or not, and so I intend to vote against the previous question.
  I also intend to vote against the rule.
  Mr. HALL of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume to 
urge Members to support both the previous question and the rule.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and I move the 
previous question on the resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. LaTourette). The question is on ordering 
the previous question.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. FLETCHER. Mr. Speaker, I object to the vote on the ground that a 
quorum is not present and make the point of order that a quorum is not 
present.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Evidently a quorum is not present.
  The Sergeant at Arms will notify absent Members.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 250, 
nays 173, not voting 12, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 419]

                               YEAS--250

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Andrews
     Archer
     Armey
     Bachus
     Ballenger
     Barr
     Barrett (NE)
     Bass
     Bateman
     Bentsen
     Bereuter
     Berman
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Blagojevich
     Bliley
     Blumenauer
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bonior
     Bono
     Borski
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brown (OH)
     Burr
     Burton
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Camp
     Canady
     Cannon
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Clayton
     Clement
     Condit
     Conyers
     Cox
     Coyne
     Crane
     Cubin
     Cummings
     Cunningham
     Davis (FL)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (VA)
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     DeLay
     Diaz-Balart
     Dickey
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Dixon
     Doggett
     Dooley
     Doolittle
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Dunn
     Ehlers
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Everett
     Ewing
     Farr
     Fattah
     Foley
     Fowler
     Frank (MA)
     Frost
     Ganske
     Gephardt
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Gonzalez
     Goodlatte
     Goodling
     Goss
     Graham
     Granger
     Green (TX)
     Greenwood
     Gutierrez
     Gutknecht
     Hall (OH)
     Hansen
     Hastert
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hefley
     Hilliard
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Holden
     Houghton
     Hoyer
     Hunter
     Hyde
     Isakson
     Istook
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     John
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (OH)
     Kanjorski
     Kennedy
     King (NY)
     Klink
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Kuykendall
     LaFalce
     Lampson
     Lantos
     Larson
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Leach
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (GA)
     Linder
     Lipinski
     Lowey
     Markey
     Martinez
     Matsui
     McCarthy (MO)
     McCollum
     McCrery
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McKeon
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Menendez
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (FL)
     Miller, Gary
     Miller, George
     Mink
     Moakley
     Moran (VA)
     Morella
     Murtha
     Myrick
     Nadler
     Neal
     Ney
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Owens
     Oxley
     Packard
     Pallone
     Pastor
     Payne
     Pease
     Pelosi
     Pickett
     Pombo
     Porter
     Pryce (OH)
     Quinn
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Regula
     Rodriguez
     Rogers
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Rothman
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Sabo
     Salmon
     Sawyer
     Schakowsky
     Scott
     Serrano
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sisisky
     Skeen
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Souder
     Spence
     Stark
     Stenholm
     Stupak
     Sununu
     Sweeney
     Tancredo
     Tauscher
     Tauzin
     Taylor (NC)
     Thomas
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thornberry
     Towns
     Traficant
     Turner
     Upton
     Walsh
     Watkins
     Watt (NC)
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Wexler
     Wicker
     Wolf
     Woolsey
     Wynn
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                               NAYS--173

     Aderholt
     Allen
     Baird
     Baker
     Baldacci
     Baldwin
     Barcia
     Barrett (WI)
     Bartlett
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berry
     Bishop
     Boswell
     Brady (TX)
     Bryant
     Buyer
     Capps
     Carson
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chambliss
     Chenoweth-Hage
     Coble
     Coburn
     Collins
     Combest
     Cook
     Costello
     Cramer
     Crowley
     Danner
     Deal
     DeFazio
     DeMint
     Deutsch
     Duncan
     Edwards
     Emerson
     English
     Etheridge
     Evans
     Filner
     Fletcher
     Forbes
     Ford
     Fossella
     Franks (NJ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Gejdenson
     Gekas
     Gibbons
     Goode
     Gordon
     Green (WI)
     Hall (TX)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Herger
     Hill (IN)
     Hill (MT)
     Hilleary
     Hoeffel
     Holt
     Hooley
     Horn
     Hostettler
     Hulshof
     Hutchinson
     Inslee
     Jenkins
     Johnson (CT)
     Jones (NC)
     Kaptur
     Kasich
     Kelly
     Kildee
     Kind (WI)
     Kingston
     Kleczka
     Kucinich
     LaHood
     Largent
     Lazio
     Lewis (KY)
     LoBiondo
     Lofgren
     Lucas (KY)
     Lucas (OK)
     Luther
     Maloney (CT)
     Maloney (NY)
     Manzullo
     Mascara
     McCarthy (NY)
     McIntosh
     McIntyre
     McKinney
     Metcalf
     Mica
     Minge
     Moore
     Moran (KS)
     Napolitano
     Nethercutt
     Northup
     Ose
     Pascrell
     Paul
     Peterson (MN)
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     Phelps
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Pomeroy
     Portman
     Price (NC)
     Radanovich
     Ramstad
     Reyes
     Reynolds
     Riley
     Rivers
     Rogan
     Roukema
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Ryun (KS)
     Sanchez
     Sanders
     Sandlin
     Sanford
     Saxton
     Scarborough
     Schaffer
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Sherman
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shows
     Snyder
     Spratt
     Stabenow
     Stearns
     Strickland
     Stump
     Talent
     Tanner
     Taylor (MS)
     Terry
     Thune
     Thurman
     Tiahrt
     Tierney
     Toomey
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Vitter
     Walden
     Wamp
     Waters
     Watts (OK)
     Weller
     Weygand
     Whitfield
     Wilson
     Wise
     Wu

                             NOT VOTING--12

     Baca
     Barton
     Campbell
     Clay
     Clyburn
     Cooksey
     Ehrlich
     Kilpatrick
     Mollohan
     Roemer
     Smith (WA)
     Vento

                              {time}  1420

  Mrs. NORTHUP, Ms. DANNER, Ms. VELAZQUEZ, and Messrs. DEUTSCH, 
PETERSON of Pennsylvania, BAKER, KINGSTON, SHERMAN, THUNE, DEAL of 
Georgia, and HORN changed their vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  Mrs. CUBIN, Ms. SLAUGHTER, and Messrs. FARR of California, CAMP, 
CONYERS, and ROHRABACHER changed their vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So the previous question was ordered.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
  Stated for:
  Mr. EHRLICH. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 419, I was away from the 
floor and neither the bell system nor my beeper notified me of the 
vote. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.''
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. LaTourette). The question is on the 
resolution.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.


                             Recorded Vote

  Mr. HILL of Montana. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 282, 
noes 141, not voting 11, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 420]

                               AYES--282

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Allen
     Andrews
     Archer
     Armey
     Bachus
     Baldacci
     Ballenger
     Barr
     Barrett (NE)
     Bartlett
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                              {time}  1439

  Mr. MORAN of Kansas and Mr. BROWN of Ohio changed their vote from 
``aye'' to ``no.''
  Ms. DeLAURO changed her vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the resolution was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
  Stated for:
  Mr. EHRLICH. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 420, I was away from the 
floor and neither the bell system nor my beeper notified me of the 
vote. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye.''

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