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H7958 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Ð HOUSE September 8, 1999 Pryce (OH) Sandlin Towns Barcia Gilman Ose The result of the vote was announced Rangel Sununu Young (AK) Barr Goode Oxley Barrett (NE) Goodlatte Packard as above recorded. Mr. WALSH. Mr. Chairman, I move b 1952 Bartlett Goodling Paul Barton Gordon Petri that the Committee do now rise. Mr. BERMAN and Mr. DICKS Bass Goss Pickering The motion was agreed to. Bateman Graham Pickett changed their vote from ``aye'' to ``no.'' Bentsen Granger Pitts Accordingly, the Committee rose; So the amendment was rejected. Berkley Green (TX) Pombo and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. The result of the vote was announced Berman Green (WI) Portman TERRY) having assumed the chair, Mr. as above recorded. Biggert Greenwood Price (NC) Bilbray Gutknecht Radanovich PEASE, Chairman pro tempore of the AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MR. GUTIERREZ Bilirakis Hall (TX) Rahall Committee of the Whole House on the The CHAIRMAN pro tempore (Mr. Bliley Hansen Reyes State of the Union, reported that that Blunt Hastings (FL) Riley Committee, having had under consider- PEASE). The pending business is the de- Boehlert Hastings (WA) Rivers mand for a recorded vote on the Boehner Hayes Roemer ation the bill (H.R. 2684) making appro- amendment offered by the gentleman Bonilla Hayworth Rogan priations for the Departments of Vet- from Illinois (Mr. GUTIERREZ) on which Bono Hefley Rogers erans Affairs and Housing and Urban Boswell Herger Rohrabacher further proceedings were postponed and Boucher Hill (IN) Roukema Development, and for sundry inde- on which the ayes prevailed by voice Boyd Hill (MT) Royce pendent agencies, boards, commissions, vote. Brady (TX) Hilleary Ryan (WI) corporations, and offices for the fiscal Brown (OH) Hilliard Ryun (KS) year ending September 30, 2000, and for The Clerk will designate the amend- Bryant Hinojosa Salmon ment. Burton Hobson Sanford other purposes, had come to no resolu- The Clerk designated the amend- Callahan Holden Sawyer tion thereon. ment. Calvert Horn Saxton Campbell Hostettler Scarborough f RECORDED VOTE Canady Houghton Schaffer The CHAIRMAN pro tempore. A re- Cannon Hoyer Scott REMOVAL OF NAME OF MEMBER Capps Hulshof Sensenbrenner AS COSPONSOR OF H.R. 1621 corded vote has been demanded. Capuano Hunter Sessions A recorded vote was ordered. Cardin Hutchinson Shadegg Mr. TANCREDO. Mr. Speaker, I ask The CHAIRMAN pro tempore. This Chambliss Hyde Shaw unanimous consent to remove my will be a 5-minute vote. Chenoweth Inslee Sherman name as cosponsor from H.R. 1621. Clay Isakson Sherwood The vote was taken by electronic de- Clayton Istook Shimkus The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there vice, and there wereÐayes 152, noes 269, Clement Jackson-Lee Shuster objection to the request of the gen- not voting 12, as follows: Coble (TX) Simpson tleman from Colorado? Coburn Jenkins Sisisky There was no objection. [Roll No. 396] Collins John Skeen AYESÐ152 Combest Johnson (CT) Skelton f Condit Johnson, E. B. Slaughter Ackerman Holt Olver Cook Johnson, Sam Smith (TX) Allen Hooley Owens THE VIOLENCE IN EAST TIMOR Cooksey Jones (NC) Smith (WA) Baldacci Jackson (IL) Pallone Cox Jones (OH) Snyder MUST STOP NOW Baldwin Kanjorski Pascrell Cramer Kaptur Souder Barrett (WI) Kelly Pastor (Mr. MCGOVERN asked and was Crane Kasich Spence Becerra Kennedy Payne Cubin King (NY) Spratt given permission to address the House Bereuter Kildee Pease Cummings Kingston Stabenow for 1 minute and to revise and extend Bishop Kilpatrick Pelosi Cunningham Knollenberg Stearns Blagojevich Kind (WI) Peterson (MN) his remarks.) Davis (FL) Kolbe Stenholm Blumenauer Kleczka Peterson (PA) Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I was Davis (VA) Kucinich Stump Bonior Klink Phelps Deal Kuykendall Sweeney in East Timor at the end of August. I Borski LaFalce Pomeroy DeLay Lampson Talent met with the government and military Brady (PA) LaHood Porter DeMint Largent Tancredo Brown (FL) Larson Quinn officials, with U.N. monitors, religious Deutsch LaTourette Tanner Burr Latham Ramstad Diaz-Balart Lewis (CA) Tauscher and community leaders. I traveled to Camp Lazio Regula Dickey Lewis (KY) Tauzin the countryside. When I left East Carson Leach Reynolds Dicks Linder Taylor (MS) Castle Lee Rodriguez Timor, I called for the immediate for- Dingell Lofgren Taylor (NC) Chabot Levin Ros-Lehtinen mation of a U.N. peacekeeping force Doggett Lucas (OK) Terry Clyburn Lewis (GA) Rothman Dooley Manzullo Thomas because everyone feared violent retal- Conyers Lipinski Roybal-Allard Doolittle Matsui Thompson (MS) iation after the vote. Costello LoBiondo Rush Dreier McCarthy (NY) Thornberry Coyne Lowey Sabo Now their worst fears have been real- Duncan McCollum Thurman Crowley Lucas (KY) Sanchez Dunn McCrery Tiahrt ized. I had dinner in the home of Danner Luther Sanders Edwards McGovern Toomey Bishop Belo. Now his home has been Davis (IL) Maloney (CT) Schakowsky Ehlers McInnis Turner DeFazio Maloney (NY) Serrano burned to the ground. I have talked to Emerson McIntyre Udall (CO) DeGette Markey Shays people in Dili and Jakarta. Their eye- English McKeon Vitter Delahunt Martinez Shows Etheridge Meek (FL) Walden witness reports make your blood run DeLauro Mascara Smith (MI) Everett Metcalf Walsh cold. Dixon McCarthy (MO) Smith (NJ) Ewing Mica Wamp Doyle McDermott Stark This is not anarchy. This is not civil Farr Miller (FL) Watkins Ehrlich McKinney Strickland Fletcher Miller, Gary Watts (OK) war. This is the deliberate, planned Engel McNulty Stupak Foley Moakley Weldon (FL) slaughter of a people. Eshoo Meehan Thompson (CA) Forbes Mollohan Weldon (PA) Evans Meeks (NY) Thune The United States and the inter- Fossella Moran (VA) Wexler Fattah Menendez Tierney national community must help restore Fowler Murtha Whitfield Filner Millender- Traficant Frelinghuysen Neal Wicker order and security by immediately de- Ford McDonald Udall (NM) Frost Nethercutt Wise ploying an international peacekeeping Frank (MA) Miller, George Upton Gallegly Ney Wolf Franks (NJ) Minge Velazquez force. Gekas Northup Wu Ganske Mink Vento Gibbons Norwood Wynn The United States should suspend all Gejdenson Moore Visclosky Gilchrest Ortiz Young (FL) aid to Indonesia, including multilat- Gephardt Moran (KS) Waters eral aid, until the violence is ended and Gillmor Morella Watt (NC) NOT VOTINGÐ12 Gonzalez Myrick Waxman the people's safety is guaranteed. Berry McHugh Sandlin Gutierrez Nadler Weiner Buyer McIntosh Sununu Seventy-eight percent of the people Hall (OH) Napolitano Weller Jefferson Pryce (OH) Towns of East Timor voted for independence. Hinchey Nussle Weygand Lantos Rangel Young (AK) Hoeffel Oberstar Wilson Their courage and commitment to free- Hoekstra Obey Woolsey dom should not be rewarded with b 1959 NOESÐ269 death. The time to act is now. Mr. RODRIGUEZ changed his vote Mr. Speaker, at this time I would Abercrombie Archer Baird Aderholt Armey Baker from ``no'' to ``aye.'' enter additional material into the Andrews Bachus Ballenger So the amendment was rejected. RECORD. September 8, 1999 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Ð HOUSE H7959 STATEMENT OF U.S. REPRESENTATIVE JIM OBSERVATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS: AU- situation has arisen where over 2000 inter- MCGOVERN ON THE CURRENT VIOLENCE IN GUST 19±24, 1999 FACT-FINDING TRIP TO EAST nally displaced persons (IDP's) are seeking EAST TIMOR, SEPTEMBER 7, 1999 TIMOR, U.S. REPRESENTATIVE JAMES P. temporary sanctuary on the property of a U.S. Representative Jim McGovern (D±MA) MCGOVERN local church. It is clear that most of the called upon the Clinton Administration Having just returned from a fact-finding IDP's are pro-independence and are waiting today to suspend all U.S. assistance to the mission to East Timor (August 19±24) with in order to vote on August 30. Local authori- Government of Indonesia until such time as Senators Tom Harkin (D±IA) and Jack Reed ties in Suai had shut off the water supply to the violence in East Timor has ceased and (D±RI), I would make the following observa- the church and have also refused to allow the safety and security of the East Timorese tions: food products to be brought to displaced peo- people can be guaranteed. Rep. McGovern (1) The May 5th Agreement on East ple by the UNHCR. Our delegation appealed has also pressed the White House to support TimorÐsigned by the Governments of Indo- to local authorities to allow water and food the immediate deployment to East Timor of nesia and Portugal and the United Nations to be brought to these peopleÐand we were a multinational peacekeeping force to help Secretary GeneralÐputs forth the frame- told that would happen. Water was restored, restore law and order. The following is Rep. work for elections in East Timor that would according to U.N. reports, later the next day. McGovern's statement: decide whether East Timor would remain a (4) On Saturday, Senator Harkin and I met ``I recently traveled to East Timor as part part of Indonesia (technically the vote is on with Indonesian President B.J. Habibie. We of a congressional delegation that included supporting or rejecting autonomy). expressed our gratitude for his public state- Sen. Tom Harkin (D±IA) and Jack Reed (R± The United Nations Mission on East Timor ments in support of a free and fair vote in RI) to assess the conditions leading to the (UNAMET) has been established to imple- East TimorÐbut reported that our recent August 30 referendum. Based on our inter- ment the agreement and the Indonesian Gov- visit demonstrated to us that conditions views with officials in East Timor and Ja- ernment is responsible for ensuring the bal- there were still very disturbing. We urged karta, and what we had witnessed on the lot can take place in a peaceful and stable that he take a more aggressive role in de- ground in East Timor, I called for a United environment. manding Indonesian military compliance Nations Peacekeeping force to be deployed in (2) UNAMET has done an excellent job in with the spirit of the May 5th agreement.