[House Report 107-164]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



107th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 1st Session                                                    107-164

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 PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 2620, THE DEPARTMENTS OF VETERANS 
  AFFAIRS AND HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 
                        APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2002

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   July 26, 2001.--Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be 
                                printed

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Ms. Pryce of Ohio, from the Committee on Rules, submitted the following

                              R E P O R T

                       [To accompany H. Res. 210]

    The Committee on Rules, having had under consideration 
House Resolution 210, by a record vote of 8 to 4, report the 
same to the House with the recommendation that the resolution 
be adopted.

                SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS OF THE RESOLUTION

    The resolution provides for consideration of H.R. 2620, the 
Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban 
Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002, 
under an open rule. The rule provides one hour of general 
debate equally divided and controlled by the chairman and 
ranking minority member of the Committee on Appropriations. The 
rule waives all points of order against consideration of the 
bill. The rule provides that the bill shall be considered for 
amendment by paragraph. The rule also waives points of order 
against provisions in the bill for failure to comply with 
clause 2 of Rule XXI (prohibiting unauthorized or legislative 
provisions in a general appropriations bill and prohibiting 
reappropriations in a general appropriations bill), except as 
specified in the rule. The rule provides that the amendment 
printed in this report may be offered only by a Member 
designated in this report and only at the appropriate point in 
the reading of the bill, shall be considered as read, shall not 
be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand 
for division of the question in the House or in the Committee 
of the Whole. The rule waives all points of order against the 
amendment printed in this report. The rule further waives 
clause 2(e) of Rule XXI (prohibiting non-emergency designated 
amendments to be offered to an appropriations bill containing 
an emergency designation) against amendments offered during 
consideration of the bill.
    The rule authorizes the Chairman of the Committee of the 
Whole to accord priority in recognition to Members who have 
preprinted their amendments in the Congressional Record. 
Finally, the rule provides one motion to recommit with or 
without instructions.
    The waiver of all points of order against consideration of 
the bill contains a waiver of section 306 of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 (prohibiting consideration of legislation 
within the Budget Committee's jurisdiction, unless reported by 
the Budget Committee) because the bill contains emergency 
funding that was not designated as such by the Budget 
Committee, and clause 4 of Rule XIII (requiring a three day 
availability of the committee report) because the committee 
report was not filed until Wednesday, July 25th and the bill 
may be considered by the House as early as Thursday, July 26th.

                            COMMITTEE VOTES

    Pursuant to clause 3(b) of House rule XIII the results of 
each record vote on an amendment or motion to report, together 
with the names of those voting for and against, are printed 
below:

Rules Committee record vote No. 29

    Date: July 26, 2001.
    Measure: H.R. 2620, Departments of Veterans Affairs and 
Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 2002.
    Motion by: Mr. Frost.
    Summary of motion: To make in order the Obey amendment to 
raise the top tax rate to 39.1 percent from 38.6 percent in the 
Bush tax cut, and use $1 billion of that to increase funding 
for veterans' medical care and a pair of HUD housing programs. 
Also increases funding for enforcement of various programs by 
the Environmental Protection Agency and restoring the 
Americorps national service program.
    Results: Defeated 4 to 8.
    Vote by Members: Goss--Nay; Linder--Nay; Diaz-Balart--Nay; 
Hastings (WA)--Nay; Myrick--Nay; Sessions--Nay; Reynolds--Nay; 
Frost--Yea; Hall--Yea; Slaughter--Yea; Hastings (FL)--Yea; 
Dreier--Nay.

Rules Committee record vote No. 30

    Date: July 26, 2001.
    Measure: H.R. 2620, Departments of Veterans Affairs and 
Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 2002.
    Motion by: Mr. Hastings (FL).
    Summary of motion: To make in order the Bishop amendment to 
authorize the Director of the Federal Emergency Management 
Agency to establish a minority emergency preparedness 
demonstration program to research and promote the capacity of 
minority communities to provide data, information, and 
awareness education by providing grants to or executing 
contracts or cooperative agreements with eligible nonprofit 
organizations to establish and conduct such programs.
    Results: Defeated 4 to 8.
    Vote by Members: Goss--Nay; Linder--Nay; Diaz-Balart--Nay; 
Hastings (WA)--Nay; Myrick--Nay; Sessions--Nay; Reynolds--Nay; 
Frost--Yea; Hall--Yea; Slaughter--Yea; Hastings (FL)--Yea; 
Dreier--Nay.

Rules Committee record vote No. 31

    Date: July 26, 2001.
    Measure: H.R. 2620, Departments of Veterans Affairs and 
Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 2002.
    Motion by: Mr. Goss.
    Summary of motion: To report the resolution.
    Results: Agreed to 8 to 4.
    Vote by Members: Goss--Yea; Linder--Yea; Diaz-Balart--Yea; 
Hastings (WA)--Yea; Myrick--Yea; Sessions--Yea; Reynolds--Yea; 
Frost--Nay; Hall--Nay; Slaughter--Nay; Hastings (FL)--Nay; 
Dreier--Yea.

           SUMMARY OF AMENDMENT MADE IN ORDER UNDER THE RULE

    Young/Walsh--Sense of Congress that the Administration 
should report in a timely manner its determinations of the 
specific funding levels required to meet the emergency needs of 
the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

             TEXT OF AMENDMENT MADE IN ORDER UNDER THE RULE

   An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Young of Florida, or 
            Representative Walsh of New York, or a Designee

    At the end of the bill (before the short title) insert the 
following:
    Sec. 4  . The Congress finds that the President has 
informed the Congress that an increase in emergency funds for 
the Federal Emergency Management Agency will be required for 
fiscal year 2002. Therefore, it is the sense of the Congress 
that the Administration should report in a timely manner its 
determinations of the specific funding levels required to meet 
the emergency needs of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

                                
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