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<Iongrrssional ~Rcord <iongrrssional ~rcord United States of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 1 03d CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Thursday, February 18, 1993 The House met at 11 a.m. [Roll No. 35] Sharp Studds Valentine Shepherd Stupak Velazquez The Chaplain, Rev. James David YEAS-242 Sisisky Swett Vento Skaggs Swift Visclosky Ford, D.D., offered the following Abercrombie Fingerhut Markey Skeen Synar Volkmer prayer: Ackerman Fish Martinez Skelton Tanner Watt Andrews (ME) Foglietta Matsui Slaughter Tauzin Waxman We are reminded in the scriptures of Andrews (NJ) Ford (Ml) Mazzoli Smith (IA) Tejeda Wheat Amos that we should seek good, and Andrews (TX) Frank (MA) McCloskey Smith (Ml) Thornton Williams Applegate Furse McCurdy not evil, so that we may faithfully live. Smith (NJ) Torres Wise Archer Gejdenson We pray, righteous God, that we will McDermott Snowe Torricelli Woolsey Bacchus (FL) Gephardt McHale Spratt Towns Wyden indeed hate evil and love the good, and Baesler Geren Mcinnis establish justice in our communities Stenholm Traficant Wynn Barcia Gillmor McKinney Strickland Unsoeld Yates and in our world. May we never be con­ Barlow Gilman McNulty tent with only the gestures of friend­ Barrett (WI) Glickman Meehan NAYS-144 Bateman Gonzalez Menendez ship and concern for our neighbor, but Becerra Gordon Miller (CA) Allard Goodling Murphy sincerely seek to care for the needy Beilenson Green Mineta Armey Goss Nussle and forgotten, to bind up the wounds of Bevill Gunderson Minge Bachus (AL) Grams Packard Bilbray Gutierrez Mink Baker (LA) Grandy Paxon those who suffer and to protect the Bonior Hall(OH) Moakley Ballenger Greenwood Petri weak and those torn by strife or ha­ Borski Hall (TX) Mollohan Barrett (NE) Hancock Pryce (OH) tred. Give us the vision of that day Boucher Hamburg Montgomery Bartlett Hastert Quillen when enmity is transformed by healing Brewster Hamilton Moran Bentley Hefley Quinn Brooks Hansen Murtha Bereuter Herger Ramstad and strife and envy are put aside. This Browder Harman Myers Bilirakis Hobson Regula is our earnest prayer. Amen. Brown (CA) Hefner Nadler Bliley Hoekstra Roberts Brown (OH) Hinchey Natcher Blute Hoke Rogers Bryant Hoagland Neal (MA) Boehlert Huffington Rohrabacher Byrne Hochbrueckner Neal (NC) Boehner Hunter Ros-Lehtinen Cantwell Holden Oberstar Bonilla Hutchinson Roth Cardin Houghton Obey Bunning Inhofe Roukema THE JOURNAL Carr Hoyer Olver Burton Is took Royce Clement Hughes Ortiz Buyer Jacobs Santorum The SPEAKER. The Chair has exam­ Clinger Hutto Orton Callahan Johnson (CT) Saxton ined the Journal of the last day's pro­ Clyburn Hyde Oxley Calvert Kim Schaefer ceedings and announces to the House Coleman Inglis Pallone Camp King Schiff his approval thereof. Collins (IL) Inslee Parker Canady Kingston Schroeder Collins (Ml) Jefferson Pastor Castle Klug Sensenbrenner Pursuant to clause 1, rule I, the Jour­ Combest Johnson (GA) Payne (NJ) Coble Kolbe Shaw nal stands approved. Condit Johnson (SD) Payne (VA) Collins (GA) Kyl Shays Conyers Johnston Pelosi Cox Lazio Shuster Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, pursu­ Cooper Kanjorski Penny Crane Leach Smith (OR) ant to clause 1, rule I, I demand a vote Coppersmith Kaptur Peterson (FL) Crapo Levy Smith (TX) on agreeing to the Speaker's approval Costello Kasich Peterson (MN) Cunningham Lewis (CA) Solomon Cramer Kennedy Pickett DeLay Lewis (FL) Spence of the Journal. Danner Kennelly Pickle Diaz-Balart Lightfoot Stearns The SPEAKER. The question is on Darden Kildee Pombo Dickey Linder Stump the Chair's approval of the Journal. de la Garza Kleczka Pomeroy Doolittle Livingston Sundquist Deal Klein Porter Dornan Machtley Talent The question was taken; and the DeFazio Klink Poshard Dreier Manzullo Taylor (MS) Speaker announced that the ayes ap­ DeLauro Kopetski Price (NC) Duncan McCandless Taylor (NC) Dellums Kreidler Rahall Dunn McCollum Thomas (CA) peared to have it. Derrick LaFalce Ravenel Emerson McCrery Thomas (WY) Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, I object Deutsch Lambert Reed Everett McHugh Torkildsen to the vote on the ground that a Dicks Lancaster Reynolds Ewing McKeon Upton Dingell Lantos Richardson Fawell McMillan Vucanovich quorum is not present and make the Dixon LaRocco Roemer Fowler Meyers Walker point of order that a quorum is not Dooley Laughlin Rose Franks (NJ) Mica Walsh present. Durbin Lehman Rostenkowski Gallo Michel Weldon Edwards (CA) Levin Rowland Gekas Miller (FL) Wolf The SPEAKER. Evidently a quorum Edwards (TX) Lewis (GA) Roybal-Allard Gilchrest Molinari Young (AK) is not present. Engel Lipinski Sabo Gingrich Moorhead Zeliff English (AZ) Long Sanders Goodlatte Morella Zimmer The Sergeant at Arms will notify ab­ English (OK) Lowey Sangmeister sent Members. Eshoo Maloney Sarpalius NOT VOTING-44 The vote was taken by electronic de­ Evans Mann Sawyer Baker (CA) Blackwell Clayton Fazio Manton Schenk Barton Brown (FL) Coyne vice, and there were-yeas 242, nays Fields (LA) Margolies- Schumer Berman Chapman Fields (TX) 144, not voting 44, as follows: Filner Mezvinsky Serrano Bishop Clay Flake D This symbol represents the time of day during the House proceedings, e.g., D 1407 is 2:07p.m. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. 2965 2966 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE February 18, 1993 Ford (TN) . Johnson, Sam Slattery Mr. MICHEL. I am happy to yield to ing you worked for the FEC and was in­ Franks (CT) Knoll enberg Stark Frost Lloyd Stokes the gentleman from Missouri. volved in working for your opponent, Gallegly McDade Thurman Mr. GEPHARDT. Mr. Speaker, I that would not be good. Gibbons Meek Tucker thank the gentleman for yielding. If you are under investigation by the Hastings Mfume Washington Mr. Speaker, we will not be having U.S. attorney and the U.S. attorney Hayes Owens Waters Henry Rangel Whitten further votes or business today. We who was investigating you was work­ Hilliard Ridge Wilson will be filling committee assignments. ing in your opponent's campaign, that Horn Rush Young (FL) There will be some perhaps unanimous­ would not necessarily be good. I have Johnson, E. B. Scott consent requests. There will obviously heard a number of Members from the 0 1126 be special orders and 1-minute other side who got up and spoke yester­ Mr. TAYLOR of Mississippi changed speeches. day about Mr. FORD and the Justice his vote from "yea" to "nay." The House will not meet tomorrow. Department, and I would hope that you So the Journal was approved. We had talked earlier, and I had said, would not bring this bill up under sus­ The result of the vote was announced there might be a pro forma session, but pension but would give me the right to as above recorded. that will apparently not be necessary, offer a series of amendments. so there will not be the need of a ses­ Mr. GEPHARDT. I thank the gen­ sion at all tomorrow. tleman for his statement, and his views PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE On Monday, February 22, the House will be taken under advisement. The SPEAKER. The Chair will ask will meet at noon, but there will not be Mr. WOLF. If the gentleman would the gentlewoman from Florida [Mrs. legislative business. yield further, when would we know FoWLER] if she would kindly come for­ Tuesday, February 23, the House will about that? ward and lead the membership in the meet at noon and consider a number of Mr. GEPHARDT. The earliest pos­ Pledge of Allegiance. bills under suspension. One might be sible moment. Mrs. FOWLER led the Pledge of Alle­ H.R. 20 Federal Employees' Political Mr. WOLF. Well, let me just say I giance as follows: Activities Act of 1993. would hope, I would hope that we On Wednesday, February 24, the would do that. I would say to the Mem­ I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the House will meet at 2 p.m. to take up United States of America, and to the Repub­ bers on my side, I have many Federal lic for which it stands, one nation under God, H.R. 920, the emergency unemployment employees in my congressional dis­ indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. compensation amendment of 1993, sub­ trict, as many as any district in the ject to a rule. country, and I have worked as hard as And on Thursday and Friday, the any Member of this body, on either MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE House will not have legislative busi­ side, on Federal employee issues, from A message from the Senate by Mr. ness. flexitime to flexiplace, job sharing, Hallen, one of its clerks, announced Mr. MICHEL. I thank the gentleman. leave sharing. If they do not give us an that the Senate has passed without May I first inquire, if he would, we open rule, I would ask every Member amendment a joint resolution of the had scheduled, of course, today the rule on my side to vote "no" on suspension. House of the following title: and consideration of the family-plan­ You may be for the bill, you may be ning legislation, and the gentleman H.J. Res. 101. Joint resolution to designate against the bill, but under no cir­ February 21 through February 27, 1993, as and I talked earlier in the day, and ob­ cumstances should the Republican side "National FFA Organization Awareness viously it is not on the program for be gagged whereby we cannot offer an Week". next week. Is it just indefinitely post­ amendment. The message also announced that poned? So I would ask that, if it is not an pursuant to Public Law 92-484, the Mr. GEPHARDT. If the gentleman open rule, that we vote down this bill Chair appoints Mr. DURENBERGER, as a will yield further, that is correct. The on Tuesday. member of the Technology Assessment bill has been indefinitely postponed.
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