[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 15032-15036]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



  As a final note on FEMA, I support the effort led by Representative 
Lois Capps to restore funding for Project Impact, a pre-disaster 
mitigation program that has provided warning radios to schools in my 
district, among other useful damage prevention measures. All too often, 
we neglect prevention and only focus on recovery. I would remind my 
colleagues that every dollar spent on prevention like Project Impact 
reduces the bills of disasters like Allison.
  Many may be upset that my colleagues and I from the Southeast Texas 
area are requesting approval from the House for this emergency request 
to aid our area recover when many other emergency requests have been 
denied. However, I believe that this $1.3 billion is absolutely 
necessary, not only for Allison victims, but for all of this year's 
disaster victims, next year's disaster victim, and all victims of major 
disaster in many past years. During the FY 2001 Supplemental debate, my 
colleague from North Carolina, Representative Walter B. Jones pointed 
out that victims of Hurricane Floyd in 1996 are still receiving 
disaster aid to complete the recovery of that area from one of the 
decade's worst storms.
  Again, this emergency disaster relief request is not earmarked for 
Texas or Tropical Storm Allison, it is for recovery aid for all current 
and future disaster victims. Again, FEMA and OMB publicly state there 
is a need for additional FEMA funds. The Senate has proposed $2 
billion, $700 million more than the House Appropriations Committee. 
From my firsthand experience in my district, I believe that the $2 
billion figure is a conservative estimate of what will be needed.
  Besides including additional disaster relief funding, I commend the 
chairman and the entire Appropriations Committee for correcting a major 
flaw in the President's budget regarding research on the International 
Space Station. The entire bill provides $15 billion in total for NASA, 
5 percent more or $666 million more than current funding and also $440 
million over the President's budget request. Importantly, this 
legislation fully funds the space station at the $1.8 billion budget 
request. While the President's budget did not reduce NASA funding, it 
kept the increase below inflation, reducing purchasing power, and 
zeroed out the crew return vehicle (CRV) and habitation module. These 
two integral parts of the space station are necessary to have a 
research presence on the station, which is why we have constructed this 
orbiting microgravity laboratory.
  I commend the Subcommittee and Committee members, especially Chairman 
Walsh and Representative Bud Cramer for their commitment to restoring 
the CRV. The scientific and international communities were worried back 
during the Spring budget season that the new Administration was going 
to preclude significant research activities on the station by targeting 
necessary components for elimination. Since we have made this 
unparalleled investment in the betterment of mankind, it would be folly 
to abandon our goals now, after we have gone through all the work to 
get a near complete station orbiting the Earth. The subcommittee is 
also to be commended for increasing funding for biological and physical 
research activities and academic research programs.
  I am relieved that the committee reversed the President's request for 
scientific research and increased it by 8% or $414 million. This bill 
includes $4.8 billion federal funding for research through the National 
Science Foundation. As a member of the House Budget Committee, I 
cosponsored an amendment to the House budget resolution to increase 
scientific research funding through the National Science Foundation, 
NASA, and DOE by $1 million

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over the House leadership's budget for 1 year and by $11 billion for 
the next 10 years. I am convinced of the necessity of increasing 
federal basic scientific investments from hearing from scientists in my 
district at the Texas Medical Center, Rice University, the University 
of Houston, and Texas Southern University.
  While I am pleased with many of the changes that the subcommittee and 
full committee have made to this legislation, I am concerned that this 
measure does not provide enough funding for veterans programs. I have 
consistently supported expanding the health benefits for our nations 
veterans, many who have made incredible sacrifices in order to preserve 
our freedom. While I am pleased that this bill would provide $4.3 
billion more for the veterans' health care programs than was available 
in 2001, I join Veterans' Affairs Ranking Member Lane Evans in his 
criticism that this bill does not do enough for improvement and 
modernization of veterans' health facilities the delivery of that care. 
In a time when many of our nation's veterans are aging and seeking more 
health care services, it is vitally important that these facilities are 
modernized to provide cutting-edge treatments for those who have 
served, without demeaning these men and women with delays.
  In my home state of Texas, we have a growing veterans population who 
will not be served until we find the additional resources which Mr. 
Evans is calling for. However, I have to reluctantly oppose his 
amendment removing $1.52 billion from the space station. As a member of 
the House Budget Committee, I opposed the Republican leadership's 
budget, which has led us to unreasonable subcommittee allocations. Now, 
at the last moment, this budget has forced Mr. Evans to turn on other 
productive programs to make up shortfalls in the administration's 
request for the Veterans Administration. Congress' budget, in a time of 
healthy revenue, should not force Members like myself to choose between 
the NASA research necessary to maintain America's technological and 
scientific superiority and funding for veterans' care in their 
districts.
  I am concerned that this legislation does not provide sufficient 
funding for housing programs. This bill provides $1.4 billion or five 
percent more than last year. However, this $1.4 billion budget is $600 
million less than the President Bush's request for housing program. One 
good example is that this bill reduces funding by five percent for the 
Community and Development Block Grant (CDBG) which has helped many 
communities to redevelop in areas where our capital markets have failed 
to invest. This bill also eliminates all funding for the urban 
empowerment zones, which means that the city of Houston will not 
receive any funds next year in their efforts to rebuild the fifth ward. 
This bill also eliminates public housing drug-elimination grants which 
have helped many public housing project to reduce the use of drugs in 
their communities.
  It also eliminates funding for AmeriCorps, a program that has been 
shown to help our nation's youth. This public service programs helps to 
meet the needs of communities by encouraging young people to donate 
their time in exchange for earning college scholarship funding. For 
many people who are not ready to enter college, this volunteer program 
has been a good alternative to simply going to work directly and giving 
them valuable skills to compete in our workplace. I urge my colleagues 
to insist on the Senate's language on this issue.
  Mr. Chairman, while this bill could be better, it is a good bill 
under the circumstances. In particular the FEMA emergency funding is 
terrible important to my constituents and I urge my colleagues to 
support this legislation.
  Mr. BUYER. Mr. Chairman. I rise to commend the chairman and ranking 
member of the VA/HUD Appropriations Subcommittee for the funding levels 
in this bill for veterans programs.
  This measure provides $51.4 billion for the Department of Veterans 
Affairs, and fully funds Veterans Medical Health Care by providing a $1 
billion increase over last year. This increase comes on the heels of a 
$3.1 billion funding level for VA health care over the last two years. 
This funding is crucial to the veterans facilities in my district in 
Marion and Crown Point, and more importantly, to the veterans who 
utilize these facilities.
  This measure also increases veterans medical and prosthetic research 
by $20 million over FY02, to bring the FY02 funding to $371 million. 
The measure fully funds current and new cemetery operations and the 
National Shrine Initiative. It fully funds cost of living increases in 
compensation and pensions. The bill provides $300 million in new 
funding for the Veterans Hospital Emergency Repair Act, which passed 
this House on March 27.
  Over the last several years, Congress has worked hard to ensure that 
veterans and their families receive the benefits they have earned. As a 
member of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, I continue to stress 
and advocate adequate funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs to 
meet the standards and quality of health care that our veterans 
deserve. At a time when medical costs are rising and aging veterans 
health care needs are increasing, I am pleased that this Chamber 
continues to provide the necessary funding for veterans programs.
  The increase in funding is a testament to our commitment to the men 
and women who have served our nation proudly, sacrificing so much for 
the good of our country. I fully support this legislation on behalf of 
our nation's veterans, knowing that it is well deserved.
  This is a good bill for our veterans and I urge its adoption.
  The CHAIRMAN. There being no other amendments, under the rule, the 
Committee rises.
  Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. 
Camp) having assumed the chair, Mr. Shimkus, 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. 2620) making 
appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and 
Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards, 
commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2002, and for other purposes, pursuant to House 
Resolution 210, 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.


                 Motion to Recommit Offered by Mr. Boyd

  Mr. BOYD. Mr. Speaker, I offer a motion to recommit.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the gentleman opposed to the bill?
  Mr. BOYD. I am, in its current form, Mr. Speaker.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to 
recommit.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Mr. Boyd moves to recommit the bill, H.R. 2620, to the 
     Committee on Appropriations with instructions to report the 
     bill back to the House promptly with an amendment which 
     increases funding for veterans medical care programs by an 
     amount adequate to fund the full cost of all currently 
     authorized services including those authorized by the 
     Veterans Millennium Health Care Act, Public Law 106-117.

  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Florida is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. BOYD. Mr. Speaker, I know that Members of this House feel very 
strongly about keeping commitments that they and this Government makes 
to its citizens. That is why I am asking the House to recommit this 
bill to the committee for the purposes of adding $500 million to the 
Veterans Administration medical programs.
  Mr. Speaker, this is the amount above the funding level contained in 
this bill that was unanimously recommended by the House Committee on 
Veterans' Affairs to the Committee on the Budget for the purposes of 
meeting the obligations and the commitment that we have and we have 
provided in the authorizing bills for our veterans.
  Mr. Speaker, I think all of us in this House have the greatest 
respect for the two gentlemen who lead this subcommittee, the gentleman 
from New York (Mr. Walsh) and the gentleman from West Virginia (Mr. 
Mollohan). I do not think there is any doubt about that. I think we 
also have a great deal of respect for the gentlemen who lead the 
Committee on Veterans' Affairs, the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. 
Smith) and the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Evans) and the previous 
chairman of that committee, the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Stump).
  Mr. Speaker, the additional funds that we are asking for in this 
motion will not be used to provide additional services or new services 
to our Nation's

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veterans. These funds, Mr. Speaker, are simply required to provide the 
services that are already authorized, they are already committed, and 
they are already promised to our veterans. But they will not be 
provided at the funding levels contained in this appropriations bill.
  This motion, Mr. Speaker, is really about whether we want to stand 
behind our commitments to our citizens or whether we are willing to 
make promises in one bill, that is, the Veterans' Affairs 
authorization, and then when it comes time to pay for those services we 
are going to say to those folks, Well, we didn't really mean it. It was 
just all for show. I do not think that is right.
  Currently, Mr. Speaker, there are more than 3.6 million veterans who 
use the VA health care system. As a group, these people are much older 
than the average American and their health needs are much greater. The 
gentleman from New York (Mr. Walsh) has made a real effort to address 
the problem of the rising cost of providing health care to these 
individuals. But the 4.9 percent increase contained in this bill is 
about half of the increase required to meet the national average rate 
of increase in health expenditures. The number of physicians now 
employed by the Veterans Administration is simply not adequate to meet 
the needs of those eligible for VA medical services. The time it takes 
to see a doctor is already too long; and if we do not act, it will grow 
longer.
  It is an unfortunate fact, Mr. Speaker, but it is a fact that a 
significant number of those who have served in uniform suffer from 
chronic mental disorders and that we are simply not providing adequate 
mental health services to a significant number of these individuals. 
While we have also promised to cover pharmacy costs, this appropriation 
does not provide enough money to fully meet that promise. We will also 
not be meeting our commitments with respect to veterans in need of 
long-term care or veterans in need of emergency medical services.
  In a letter dated July 16, 2001, the major veterans service 
organizations stated that the funding levels in this bill ``are simply 
inadequate to meet the needs of the sick and disabled veterans at a 
time of skyrocketing health care costs and rising demand from an aging 
veterans population.''
  Mr. Speaker, it is time for this Congress and this Nation to meet the 
commitments that it has made to the veterans, to the folks who have 
served in the uniform of this Nation.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues tonight to send this bill back and 
add these additional needed funds.
  Mr. WALSH. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the motion.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. WALSH. Mr. Speaker, let me read from the bill report language: 
``The committee stands behind the commitments Congress made in the 
Veterans Millennium Health Care and Benefits Act, Public Law 106-117, 
to provide veterans with additional long-term care and emergency care 
services.''
  The subcommittee stands behind the authorizing committee and the 
commitments that it made.
  ``The committee urges the administration to include full funding for 
the Veterans Millennium Health Care and Benefits Act in its fiscal year 
2003 budget request.''
  In this year's bill, the 2002 bill, the President's budget fully 
supports the provisions of the Millennium Health Care Act. In addition 
to the President's budget request, we added another $1 billion, 
building on our commitment, providing a $4 billion increase over the 
last 3 years in health care.
  Mr. Speaker, there is $51 billion in this bill for veterans. Clearly, 
clearly that expresses the priorities of this body. Last year, we 
provided the President's request plus $1.3 billion for VA medical care, 
fully funding the provisions of the Millennium Health Care Act.

                              {time}  2340

  However, the VA could not spend all that money. Over $300 million 
provided in fiscal year 2001 was not spent on Millennium Health Care 
Act activities. On our subcommittee, in fact, the ranking member, the 
gentleman from West Virginia (Mr. Mollohan), questioned the VA 
Secretary extensively on this subject; and the Secretary testified that 
$548 million estimated in the budget was adequate to meet the 
Millennium Health Care mandates. The Secretary and the Under Secretary 
for Health testified that a number of provisions that are already 
implemented, and a number are delayed in the final notice in rule 
process.
  There are a number of reasons for this delay, primarily because VA 
and OMB have not been able to promulgate and vet the rules in a timely 
manner. Some of the delay is simply the rule process, it is long and 
complicated. Some of the delay is due to the new administration 
carefully reviewing the rules before publication and notice. 
Regardless, the VA is not able to spend the money we have already 
provided because they cannot.
  So, to add additional money to this bill begs the question of what is 
the purpose of this motion to recommit. Clearly the motion to recommit 
would send the bill back to committee; in effect it would kill the 
bill.
  Now, we want to pass this bill. We worked very hard on it. My ranking 
member and I have tried to do this in a bipartisan way. There are lots 
of Member requests in this bill. The priorities of the Members are 
clearly expressed in this bill. We provided $400 million more for 
construction for veterans hospitals as a direct response to the 
Members. We think this is a good bill.
  Mr. Speaker, I would strongly urge support of this.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman 
from New Jersey (Mr. Smith), the distinguished chairman of the 
Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, I thank my good friend for 
yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, I want to just say I certainly appreciate and empathize 
with the motion to recommit; but the committee has, in my opinion, 
tried to carefully and painstakingly craft a budget that fully funds a 
number of very important veterans' programs. I believe Chairman Walsh 
and Ranking Democrat Mollohan have produced a generous allocation of 
Federal funds for veterans' programs. VA construction gets more--and 
much needed monies--under the bill. As a matter of fact it fully funds 
the first year of my bill, passed by the House--H.R. 811--Emergency 
Hospital Repair Act of 2001. The Walsh bill provides approximately $1.6 
billion over and above last year in the area of discretionary spending, 
and a significant $1 billion more in VA medical care funding.
  Sure, I would like to increase VA appropriations beyond what is in 
this bill. We would all like to spend more. But we have to live within 
at least some budget restraints. No budget or appropriations bill is 
ever perfect, Mr. Speaker, but is the result of careful compromise and 
a weighing of competing priorities.
  Tomorrow I will bring to the floor the Veterans Benefits Act of 2001, 
which provides a $2.7 billion increase over 5 years, to boost COLAs for 
more than 2.3 million disabled vets. And to assist Gulf War vets and 
for insurance and other purposes. This plus H.R. 1291 the doubling of 
the 61 education benefit--from $23,400 to $36,900--and H.R. 801, the 
Veterans Survivors Benefit Improvement Act of 2001 signed into law 
demonstrates are commitment to vets.
  So I just ask Members, however well-intended this motion is, I think 
it breaks the budget; and I would urge that it be voted down. Both the 
chairman and ranking member care deeply about veterans and have done 
their level best within their allocation to fund veterans programs.
  I just would ask for a no vote on this.
  Mr. WALSH. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for his support on this. Please 
vote no on the motion to recommit and let us move the bill forward.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Camp). Without objection, the previous 
question is ordered on the motion to recommit.

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  There was no objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to recommit.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the noes appeared to have it.


                             Recorded Vote

  Mr. BOYD. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair 
will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on 
the question of passage.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 196, 
noes 230, not voting 7, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 296]

                               AYES--196

     Ackerman
     Allen
     Andrews
     Baca
     Baird
     Baldacci
     Baldwin
     Barcia
     Barrett
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Bishop
     Blagojevich
     Blumenauer
     Bonior
     Borski
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brown (OH)
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Carson (IN)
     Carson (OK)
     Clay
     Clayton
     Clement
     Clyburn
     Condit
     Conyers
     Costello
     Coyne
     Cramer
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (FL)
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Deutsch
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dooley
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Evans
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Ford
     Frank
     Frost
     Gephardt
     Gonzalez
     Green (TX)
     Gutierrez
     Hall (OH)
     Hall (TX)
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Hill
     Hilliard
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hoeffel
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     John
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones (OH)
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     Kind (WI)
     Kleczka
     Kucinich
     LaFalce
     Lampson
     Langevin
     Lantos
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lofgren
     Lowey
     Lucas (KY)
     Luther
     Maloney (CT)
     Maloney (NY)
     Markey
     Mascara
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (MO)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meeks (NY)
     Menendez
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller, George
     Mink
     Moore
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Pelosi
     Peterson (MN)
     Phelps
     Pomeroy
     Price (NC)
     Reyes
     Rivers
     Rodriguez
     Roemer
     Ross
     Rothman
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Sanchez
     Sanders
     Sandlin
     Sawyer
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Scott
     Serrano
     Sherman
     Shows
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Solis
     Spratt
     Stenholm
     Strickland
     Stupak
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Taylor (MS)
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thurman
     Tierney
     Towns
     Turner
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Waters
     Watson (CA)
     Watt (NC)
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Wexler
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn

                               NOES--230

     Abercrombie
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Armey
     Bachus
     Baker
     Ballenger
     Barr
     Bartlett
     Barton
     Bass
     Bentsen
     Bereuter
     Biggert
     Bilirakis
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bono
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (SC)
     Bryant
     Burr
     Burton
     Buyer
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Camp
     Cannon
     Cantor
     Capito
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chambliss
     Coble
     Collins
     Combest
     Cooksey
     Cox
     Crane
     Crenshaw
     Cubin
     Culberson
     Cunningham
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Davis, Tom
     Deal
     DeLay
     DeMint
     Diaz-Balart
     Doolittle
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Ehlers
     Ehrlich
     Emerson
     English
     Everett
     Ferguson
     Flake
     Fletcher
     Foley
     Forbes
     Fossella
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Ganske
     Gekas
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Gordon
     Goss
     Graham
     Granger
     Graves
     Green (WI)
     Greenwood
     Grucci
     Gutknecht
     Hart
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Herger
     Hilleary
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Horn
     Hostettler
     Houghton
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Hutchinson
     Hyde
     Isakson
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Keller
     Kelly
     Kennedy (MN)
     Kerns
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     LaHood
     Largent
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Leach
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     LoBiondo
     Lucas (OK)
     Manzullo
     McCrery
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McKeon
     Meek (FL)
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller, Gary
     Mollohan
     Moran (KS)
     Moran (VA)
     Morella
     Murtha
     Myrick
     Nethercutt
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Osborne
     Ose
     Otter
     Oxley
     Paul
     Pence
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Platts
     Pombo
     Portman
     Pryce (OH)
     Putnam
     Quinn
     Radanovich
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Rangel
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Reynolds
     Riley
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roukema
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Ryun (KS)
     Sabo
     Saxton
     Scarborough
     Schaffer
     Schrock
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simmons
     Simpson
     Skeen
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Souder
     Stearns
     Stump
     Sununu
     Sweeney
     Tancredo
     Tauzin
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thomas
     Thornberry
     Thune
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Toomey
     Traficant
     Upton
     Vitter
     Walden
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Watkins (OK)
     Watts (OK)
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Hansen
     Istook
     Jefferson
     Lipinski
     Payne
     Spence
     Stark

                              {time}  2358

  So the motion to recommit was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Camp). The question is on the passage of 
the bill.
  Under clause 10 of rule XX, the yeas and nays are ordered.
  This is a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 336, 
nays 89, not voting 8, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 297]

                               YEAS--336

     Abercrombie
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Andrews
     Armey
     Baca
     Bachus
     Baird
     Baker
     Baldacci
     Ballenger
     Barcia
     Barr
     Bartlett
     Barton
     Bass
     Becerra
     Bentsen
     Bereuter
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Biggert
     Bilirakis
     Bishop
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bonior
     Bono
     Borski
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (FL)
     Brown (SC)
     Bryant
     Burr
     Burton
     Buyer
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Camp
     Cannon
     Cantor
     Capito
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                                NAYS--89

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                             NOT VOTING--8

     Hansen
     Hastings (FL)
     Istook
     Jefferson
     Lipinski
     Payne
     Spence
     Stark

                              {time}  0007

  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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