[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 19]
[House]
[Pages 26449-26451]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




WAIVING POINTS OF ORDER AGAINST CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 2115, VISION 
        100--CENTURY OF AVIATION REAUTHORIZATION ACT--continued

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair would announce that we have 7 
minutes remaining to finish the debate on the rule. The gentleman from 
Florida (Mr. Lincoln Diaz-Balart) has 2 minutes remaining. The 
gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern) has 5 minutes remaining.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman 
from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), our distinguished minority whip.
  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, the Republican leadership has turned what 
should have been a bipartisan achievement into a partisan travesty. 
When we passed this legislation by a vote of 418-8 on July 11, we 
explicitly barred the privatization of air traffic controllers. We did 
so because we were concerned about the safety of the American public. 
The Senate bill which passed 94-0 went even further. It extended the 
protection to airway system specialists. Why? On behalf of the safety 
of the American public.
  Then the Republican leadership hijacked this legislation. It adopted 
a conference report that rejected the opinion of the House and rejected 
the opinion of the Senate and stripped out the language barring 
privatization, again, passed to protect the safety of the American 
flying public.
  Instead, it allowed 69 air traffic control towers to be turned over 
to private companies which must always put the bottom line first, and 
it removed the protections for airway systems specialists, removed 
mandatory and terrorism training for flight attendants, and permitted 
foreign airlines to raid U.S. markets.
  Even Republicans balked at these changes, and that is why this 
legislation has hung around for so long, but Mr. Speaker, without the 
explicit prohibition on privatization that was included in the bill we 
passed in June, the administration is free to move forward with 
privatization, notwithstanding the will of the House and the will of 
the Senate. That should not be acceptable in a democratic legislative 
body. The flying public deserves better. America deserves better. They 
need to know that the people on the ground responsible for air safety 
are not being forced to cut corners to save dollars.
  I urge my colleagues to vote for a fair process and vote for the 
public safety by voting down this legislation and this conference 
report. I thank the gentleman for yielding me the time.
  Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I would inquire at 
this time how many speakers the other side has remaining.
  Mr. McGOVERN. I am the last speaker on our side.
  Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such 
time as I may consume.
  Alluding to the facts, Mr. Speaker, I think is important sometimes. 
Under the Presidency of William Jefferson Clinton, approximately 150 
control towers were privatized.

                              {time}  1530

  This legislation mandates no privatizations. And under the Presidency 
of George W. Bush, by the way, there have been zero towers privatized.
  I do not recall the protests during the 150 privatizations during the 
years of Bill Clinton. What I do know is that this legislation mandates 
no privatizations. The facts sometimes, Mr. Speaker, are important.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, how much time remains on this side?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. LaHood). The gentleman from 
Massachusetts has 2\1/2\ minutes remaining.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I will be asking for a vote on the previous question, 
and if the previous question is defeated, I will offer an amendment to 
the rule. My amendment will provide that upon adoption of this rule the 
enrolling Clerk is directed to make the following changes to the 
conference report:
  One, to insert the language in the Senate-passed FAA bill that would 
prohibit the privatization of the air traffic control system. Two, to 
strike the cabotage language in the bill that would allow foreign 
airlines to carry cargo between cities in Alaska and other cities in 
the United States. Three, to restore the mandatory TSA security and 
antiterrorism training guidelines for flight attendants that was in the 
House-passed version of the FAA bill. The conference report makes these 
important guidelines discretionary. And, four, to delete the 
requirement for certain communities to pay a local share for essential 
air service.
  Mr. Speaker, these changes represent the true will of the Congress 
with regard to this very important legislation. What has happened since 
H.R. 2115 first went to conference, and particularly in the past 2 
days, is a travesty of our democratic system of government. It is 
obscene that the leadership in the House of Representatives and the 
Senate would turn our legislative process on its head. And it is even 
more obscene if we were to let that happen without any protest. This 
type of behavior must stop. The last time I looked, we lived in a 
democracy. This is supposed to be a deliberative body. We all took an 
oath of office when we began serving in this fine institution. It is 
time to live up to that oath.
  I want to stress that a ``no'' vote on the previous question will not 
stop consideration of the conference report for the FAA 
reauthorization; rather, a ``no'' vote will allow the House to amend 
the rule to make the changes necessary for this conference report to 
truly reflect the bill that won widespread bipartisan support in both 
the House and the Senate.
  Again, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on the previous question 
and remind them that this is the only way that we are going to prohibit 
the privatization of our air traffic control system.

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  Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the text of this amendment 
be printed in the Record immediately before the vote on the previous 
question.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Massachusetts?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such 
time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, this legislation reauthorizes the FAA. It is extremely 
important to the safety of the flying public in this country. In 
addition, it reauthorizes $3.4 billion for the FAA and increases it by 
$100 million each year.
  Mr. Speaker, many of the ideas of our friends on the other side of 
the aisle, and I have a whole page of them here in summary, were 
included in this legislation. And with regard to what we have heard 
time and time again about phantoms of privatization, and though 150 
occurred during President Clinton's administration, this legislation 
mandates none.
  Mr. Speaker, this is an important piece of legislation. We must pass 
it today, and so I urge my colleagues to pass the rule and the 
underlying legislation.
  The material previously referred to by Mr. McGovern is as follows:

 Previous Question for H. Res. 422--Rule on Conference Report for H.R. 
        2115 Flight 100--Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act


           amendment to h. res. 422 offered by rep. mcgovern

       Strike all after the resolved clause and insert:
       ``That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in 
     order to consider the conference report to accompany the bill 
     (H.R. 2115) to amend title 49, United States Code, to 
     reauthorize programs for the Federal Aviation Administration, 
     and for other purposes. All points of order against the 
     conference report and against its consideration are waived. 
     The conference report shall be considered as read.
       Sec. 2. (a) A concurrent resolution specified in subsection 
     (b) is hereby adopted.
       (b) The concurrent resolution referred to in subsection (a) 
     is a concurrent resolution
       (1) which has no preamble;
       (2) the title of which is as follows: ``Providing for 
     Corrections to the Enrollment of the Conference Report on the 
     bill H.R. 2115''; and
       (3) the text of which is as follows:

                             H. Con. Res.--

       Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
     concurring), That, in the enrollment of the bill H.R. 2115, 
     the Clerk of the House of Representatives shall make the 
     following corrections:
       (1) At the end of subtitle B of title II of the conference 
     report, add the following (and conform the table of contents 
     of the conference report accordingly):

     ``SEC. 230. TRANSFER OF CERTAIN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL FUNCTIONS 
                   PROHIBITED.

       ``(a) In General.--The Secretary of Transportation may not 
     authorize the transfer to a private entity or to a public 
     entity other than the United States Government of--
       ``(1) the air traffic separation and control functions 
     operated by the Federal Aviation Administration on the date 
     of enactment of this Act; or
       ``(2) the maintenance of certifiable systems and other 
     functions related to certification of national airspace 
     systems and services operated by the Federal Aviation 
     Administration on the date of enactment of this Act or flight 
     service station personnel.
       ``(b) Contract Tower Program.--Subsection (a)(1) shall not 
     apply to a Federal Aviation Administration air traffic 
     control tower operated under the contract tower program as of 
     the date of enactment of this Act.''.
       (2) Strike section 408 of the conference report (and 
     conform the table of contents of the conference report 
     accordingly).
       (3) In section 603 of the conference report, in the matter 
     proposed to be inserted as section 44918(a)(4) of title 49, 
     United States Code, strike ``the Under Secretary may 
     establish minimum standards'' and insert ``the Under 
     Secretary shall establish minimum standards''.
       (4) Strike section 808 of the conference report (and 
     conform the table of contents of the conference report 
     accordingly).

  Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the 
balance of my time, and I move the previous question on the resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. 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.


                             Recorded Vote

  Mr. McGOVERN. 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 electronic voting, if 
ordered, on the question of agreeing to the resolution.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 222, 
noes 199, not voting 13, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 586]

                               AYES--222

     Aderholt
     Bachus
     Baker
     Ballenger
     Barrett (SC)
     Bartlett (MD)
     Barton (TX)
     Bass
     Beauprez
     Bereuter
     Biggert
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bonner
     Bono
     Boozman
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Burgess
     Burns
     Burr
     Burton (IN)
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp
     Cannon
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chocola
     Coble
     Cole
     Collins
     Cox
     Crane
     Crenshaw
     Cubin
     Culberson
     Cunningham
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Davis, Tom
     Deal (GA)
     DeLay
     DeMint
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Doolittle
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Ehlers
     Emerson
     English
     Everett
     Feeney
     Ferguson
     Flake
     Foley
     Forbes
     Fossella
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gingrey
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Goss
     Granger
     Graves
     Green (WI)
     Greenwood
     Gutknecht
     Harris
     Hart
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Hoekstra
     Hostettler
     Houghton
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Hyde
     Isakson
     Issa
     Istook
     Janklow
     Jenkins
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Keller
     Kelly
     Kennedy (MN)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Kline
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     LaHood
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Leach
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     LoBiondo
     Lucas (OK)
     Manzullo
     McCrery
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McKeon
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Moran (KS)
     Murphy
     Musgrave
     Myrick
     Nethercutt
     Neugebauer
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nunes
     Nussle
     Osborne
     Ose
     Otter
     Oxley
     Paul
     Pence
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Platts
     Pombo
     Porter
     Portman
     Pryce (OH)
     Putnam
     Quinn
     Radanovich
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Renzi
     Reynolds
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Ryun (KS)
     Saxton
     Schrock
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simmons
     Simpson
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Souder
     Stearns
     Sullivan
     Sweeney
     Tancredo
     Tauzin
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thomas
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Toomey
     Turner (OH)
     Upton
     Vitter
     Walden (OR)
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                               NOES--199

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Alexander
     Allen
     Andrews
     Baca
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Ballance
     Becerra
     Bell
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (OH)
     Brown, Corrine
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Cardoza
     Carson (IN)
     Carson (OK)
     Clyburn
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costello
     Cramer
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (FL)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (TN)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Deutsch
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dooley (CA)
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Emanuel
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Evans
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Ford
     Frank (MA)
     Frost
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green (TX)
     Grijalva
     Hall
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Hill
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hoeffel
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley (OR)
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     John
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones (OH)
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     Kind
     Kleczka
     Kucinich
     Lampson
     Langevin
     Lantos
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Lofgren
     Lowey
     Lucas (KY)
     Lynch
     Majette
     Maloney
     Markey
     Marshall
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (MO)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Menendez
     Michaud
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller, George
     Mollohan
     Moore
     Moran (VA)
     Murtha
     Nadler

[[Page 26451]]


     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peterson (MN)
     Pomeroy
     Price (NC)
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Rodriguez
     Ross
     Rothman
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sabo
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sanders
     Sandlin
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Sherman
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Solis
     Spratt
     Stark
     Stenholm
     Strickland
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Taylor (MS)
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Towns
     Turner (TX)
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Waters
     Watson
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Wexler
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn

                             NOT VOTING--13

     Akin
     Bradley (NH)
     Case
     Clay
     Fletcher
     Gephardt
     Gutierrez
     Hobson
     McCotter
     Miller (NC)
     Pearce
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Stupak


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. LaHood) (during the vote). Members are 
advised 2 minutes remain in this vote.

                              {time}  1552

  So the previous question was ordered.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. 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. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 220, 
noes 199, not voting 15, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 587]

                               AYES--220

     Aderholt
     Bachus
     Baker
     Ballenger
     Barrett (SC)
     Bartlett (MD)
     Bass
     Beauprez
     Bereuter
     Biggert
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bonner
     Bono
     Boozman
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Burgess
     Burns
     Burr
     Burton (IN)
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp
     Cannon
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chocola
     Coble
     Cole
     Collins
     Cox
     Crane
     Crenshaw
     Cubin
     Culberson
     Cunningham
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Davis, Tom
     Deal (GA)
     DeLay
     DeMint
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Doolittle
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Ehlers
     Emerson
     English
     Everett
     Feeney
     Ferguson
     Flake
     Foley
     Forbes
     Fossella
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gingrey
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Goss
     Granger
     Graves
     Green (WI)
     Greenwood
     Gutknecht
     Harris
     Hart
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Hostettler
     Houghton
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Hyde
     Isakson
     Issa
     Istook
     Janklow
     Jenkins
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Keller
     Kelly
     Kennedy (MN)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Kline
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     LaHood
     Latham
     Leach
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     LoBiondo
     Lucas (OK)
     Manzullo
     McCrery
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McKeon
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Moran (KS)
     Murphy
     Musgrave
     Myrick
     Nethercutt
     Neugebauer
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nunes
     Nussle
     Osborne
     Ose
     Otter
     Oxley
     Paul
     Pence
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     Pitts
     Platts
     Pombo
     Porter
     Portman
     Pryce (OH)
     Putnam
     Quinn
     Radanovich
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Renzi
     Reynolds
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Ryun (KS)
     Saxton
     Schrock
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simmons
     Simpson
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Souder
     Stearns
     Sullivan
     Sweeney
     Tancredo
     Tauzin
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thomas
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Toomey
     Turner (OH)
     Upton
     Vitter
     Walden (OR)
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                               NOES--199

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Alexander
     Allen
     Andrews
     Baca
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Ballance
     Becerra
     Bell
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (OH)
     Brown, Corrine
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Cardoza
     Carson (IN)
     Carson (OK)
     Clyburn
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costello
     Cramer
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (FL)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (TN)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Deutsch
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dooley (CA)
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Emanuel
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Evans
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Ford
     Frank (MA)
     Frost
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green (TX)
     Grijalva
     Hall
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Hill
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hoeffel
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley (OR)
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     John
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones (OH)
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     Kind
     Kleczka
     Kucinich
     Lampson
     Langevin
     Lantos
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     LaTourette
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Lofgren
     Lowey
     Lucas (KY)
     Lynch
     Majette
     Maloney
     Markey
     Marshall
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (MO)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Menendez
     Michaud
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller, George
     Mollohan
     Moore
     Moran (VA)
     Murtha
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peterson (MN)
     Pomeroy
     Price (NC)
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Rodriguez
     Ross
     Rothman
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sabo
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sanders
     Sandlin
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Sherman
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Solis
     Spratt
     Stark
     Stenholm
     Strickland
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Taylor (MS)
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Towns
     Turner (TX)
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Waters
     Watson
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Wexler
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn

                             NOT VOTING--15

     Akin
     Barton (TX)
     Bradley (NH)
     Case
     Clay
     Fletcher
     Gephardt
     Gutierrez
     McCotter
     Miller (NC)
     Pearce
     Pickering
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Scott (GA)
     Stupak


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (during the vote). Members are advised 2 
minutes remain in this vote.

                              {time}  1600

  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.

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