CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE June 9, 1999
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June 9, 1999 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE 12131 Mr. HAYES. Madam Speaker, I ob- Morella Rohrabacher Stabenow HOUSE RESOLUTION 204 Murtha Ros-Lehtinen Stearns Resolved, That the following named Mem- ject to the vote on the ground that a Myrick Rothman Stump quorum is not present and make the Nadler Roukema Sununu bers be, and are hereby, elected to the fol- point of order that a quorum is not Napolitano Roybal-Allard Sweeney lowing standing committees of the House of present. Neal Royce Talent Representatives: Nethercutt Rush Tauscher Committee on Resources: Mr. HOLT of New The SPEAKER pro tempore. Evi- Ney Ryan (WI) Tauzin Jersey; dently a quorum is not present. Northup Ryun (KS) Taylor (NC) Committee on Science: Mr. BAIRD of Wash- Norwood Salmon Terry The Sergeant at Arms will notify ab- ington; Mr. HOEFFEL of Pennsylvania; Mr. Nussle Sanchez Thomas sent Members. Obey Sanders Thornberry MOORE of Kansas; The vote was taken by electronic de- Olver Sandlin Thune Committee on Veterans’ Affairs: Mr. HILL vice, and there were—yeas 355, nays 62, Ortiz Sanford Thurman of Indiana; Mr. UDALL of New Mexico. Ose Sawyer Tiahrt The resolution was agreed to. not voting 17, as follows: Owens Saxton Tierney [Roll No. 178] Oxley Scarborough Toomey A motion to reconsider was laid on Packard Schakowsky Towns the table. YEAS—355 Pastor Scott Traficant f Abercrombie DeGette Hunter Payne Sensenbrenner Turner Ackerman Delahunt Hyde Pease Serrano Upton NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZA- Allen DeLauro Inslee Pelosi Sessions Vitter TION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2000 Andrews DeLay Isakson Peterson (PA) Shadegg Walden Archer DeMint Istook Petri Shaw Walsh Mrs. MYRICK. Madam Speaker, by Armey Deutsch Jackson (IL) Phelps Shays Wamp direction of the Committee on Rules, I Bachus Diaz-Balart Jackson-Lee Pickering Sherman Watkins Baker Dickey (TX) Pitts Sherwood Watt (NC) call up House Resolution 200 and ask Baldwin Dicks Jefferson Porter Shimkus Watts (OK) for its immediate consideration. Ballenger Dingell Jenkins Portman Shows Waxman The Clerk read the resolution, as fol- Barcia Dixon John Price (NC) Shuster Weiner lows: Barr Doggett Johnson (CT) Pryce (OH) Simpson Weldon (FL) Barrett (NE) Dooley Johnson, Sam Quinn Sisisky Weldon (PA) H. RES. 200 Barrett (WI) Doolittle Jones (NC) Radanovich Skeen Wexler Resolved, That at any time after the adop- Bartlett Dreier Jones (OH) Rahall Skelton Weygand tion of this resolution the Speaker may, pur- Barton Duncan Kaptur Rangel Smith (MI) Whitfield suant to clause 2(b) of rule XVIII, declare the Bass Dunn Kasich Regula Smith (NJ) Wilson Bateman Edwards Kelly Reyes Smith (TX) Wise House resolved into the Committee of the Becerra Ehlers Kennedy Reynolds Smith (WA) Wolf Whole House on the state of the Union for Bentsen Ehrlich Kildee Rivers Snyder Woolsey consideration of the bill (H.R. 1401) to au- Bereuter Emerson Kilpatrick Rodriguez Souder Wu thorize appropriations for fiscal years 2000 Berkley Engel Kind (WI) Roemer Spence Wynn and 2001 for military activities of the Depart- Berman Eshoo King (NY) Rogers Spratt Young (FL) ment of Defense, to prescribe military per- Berry Etheridge Kingston sonnel strengths for fiscal years 2000 and Biggert Evans Kleczka NAYS—62 2001, and for other purposes. The first read- Bilirakis Everett Klink Aderholt Hilliard Ramstad Bishop Ewing Knollenberg Baird Hinchey Riley ing of the bill shall be dispensed with. All Blagojevich Farr Kolbe Baldacci Hulshof Sabo points of order against consideration of the Bliley Fattah Kuykendall Bilbray Hutchinson Schaffer bill are waived. General debate shall be con- Blumenauer Fletcher LaFalce Bonior Johnson, E.B. Slaughter fined to the bill and shall not exceed one Blunt Foley LaHood Borski Kucinich Stenholm hour equally divided and controlled by the Boehlert Forbes Lampson Brown (OH) Lewis (GA) Strickland chairman and ranking minority member of Boehner Ford Lantos Clay LoBiondo Stupak the Committee on Armed Services. After Bonilla Fossella Largent Clyburn Markey Tancredo Bono Fowler Larson Costello Martinez general debate the bill shall be considered Tanner Boswell Frank (MA) Latham Crane McDermott for amendment under the five-minute rule. Boyd Franks (NJ) LaTourette Crowley McGovern Taylor (MS) SEC. 2. (a) It shall be in order to consider Brady (PA) Frelinghuysen Lazio DeFazio McNulty Thompson (CA) as an original bill for the purpose of amend- Brown (FL) Frost Leach English Miller, George Thompson (MS) ment under the five-minute rule the amend- Udall (CO) Bryant Gallegly Lee Filner Moran (KS) ment in the nature of a substitute rec- Burr Ganske Levin Udall (NM) Gephardt Oberstar ommended by the Committee on Armed Burton Gejdenson Lewis (CA) Gutknecht Pallone Vela´ zquez Buyer Gekas Lewis (KY) Hastings (FL) Peterson (MN) Vento Services now printed in the bill. The com- Callahan Gibbons Linder Hefley Pickett Visclosky mittee amendment in the nature of a sub- Calvert Gilchrest Lipinski Hill (MT) Pombo Weller stitute shall be considered as read. All points Camp Gillmor Lofgren Hilleary Pomeroy Wicker of order against the committee amendment Campbell Gilman Lowey NOT VOTING—17 in the nature of a substitute are waived. Canady Gonzalez Lucas (KY) (b) No amendment to the committee Cannon Goode Lucas (OK) Boucher Kanjorski Paul Capps Goodlatte Maloney (CT) amendment in the nature of a substitute Brady (TX) Luther Rogan shall be in order except the amendments Capuano Goodling Maloney (NY) Brown (CA) McCrery Stark Cardin Gordon Manzullo printed in the report of the Committee on Cummings McHugh Waters Carson Goss Mascara Rules accompanying this resolution, amend- Doyle Meek (FL) Young (AK) Castle Graham Matsui Gutierrez Pascrell ments en bloc described in section 3 of this Chabot Granger McCarthy (MO) resolution, the amendment by Representa- Chambliss Green (TX) McCarthy (NY) 1054 tive Cox of California printed on June 8, 1999, Chenoweth Green (WI) McCollum b Clayton Greenwood McInnis in the portion of the Congressional Record So the Journal was approved. designated for that purpose in clause 8 of Clement Hall (OH) McIntosh The result of the vote was announced Coble Hall (TX) McIntyre rule XVIII, and pro forma amendments of- Coburn Hansen McKeon as above recorded. fered by the chairman and ranking minority Collins Hastings (WA) McKinney member of the Committee on Armed Serv- f Combest Hayes Meehan ices for the purpose of debate. Condit Hayworth Meeks (NY) (c) Except as specified in section 5 of this Conyers Herger Menendez ELECTION OF MEMBERS TO CER- resolution, each amendment printed in the Cook Hill (IN) Metcalf TAIN STANDING COMMITTEES OF Cooksey Hinojosa Mica report of the Committee on Rules shall be Cox Hobson Millender- THE HOUSE considered only in the order printed in the Coyne Hoeffel McDonald Mr. FROST. Madam Speaker, by di- report, may be offered only by a Member des- Cramer Hoekstra Miller (FL) ignated in the report, shall be considered as Cubin Holden Miller, Gary rection of the Democratic Caucus, I offer a privileged resolution (H. Res. read, and shall not be subject to a demand Cunningham Holt Minge for division of the question in the House or Danner Hooley Mink 204) and ask for its immediate consider- in the Committee of the Whole. Unless other- Davis (FL) Horn Moakley ation. Davis (IL) Hostettler Mollohan wise specified in the report, each amendment Davis (VA) Houghton Moore The Clerk read the resolution, as fol- printed in the report shall be debatable for 10 Deal Hoyer Moran (VA) lows: minutes equally divided and controlled by VerDate Aug 04 2004 14:27 Oct 02, 2004 Jkt 069102 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 E:\BR99\H09JN9.000 H09JN9 12132 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE June 9, 1999 the proponent and an opponent and shall not shall rise and report the bill to the House The rule provides that except as oth- be subject to amendment (except that the with such amendments as may have been erwise specified in the report, each chairman and ranking minority member of adopted. Any Member may demand a sepa- amendment printed in the report shall the Committee on Armed Services each may rate vote in the House on any amendment be debatable for 10 minutes, equally di- offer one pro forma amendment for the pur- adopted in the Committee of the Whole to pose of further debate on any pending the bill or to the committee amendment in vided and controlled by the proponent amendment). the nature of a substitute. The previous and an opponent, and shall not be sub- (d) All points of order against amendments question shall be considered as ordered on ject to amendment, except that the printed in the report of the Committee on the bill and amendments thereto to final chairman and ranking minority mem- Rules or amendments en bloc described in passage without intervening motion except ber of the Committee on Armed Serv- section 3 of this resolution are waived. one motion to recommit with or without in- ices each may offer one pro forma (e) Consideration of the last five amend- structions. amendment for the purpose of further ments in part A of the report of the Com- SEC. 7. After passage of H.R. 1401, it shall mittee on Rules shall begin with an addi- debate on any pending amendment. be in order to take from the Speaker’s table The rule waives all points of order tional period of general debate, which shall the bill S. 1059 and to consider the Senate be confined to the subject of United States bill in the House. All points of order against against the amendments printed in the policy relating to the conflict in Kosovo, and the Senate bill and against its consideration Committee on Rules report and those shall not exceed one hour equally divided are waived. It shall be in order to move to amendments en bloc described in sec- and controlled by the chairman and ranking strike all after the enacting clause of the tion 3 of the resolution.