HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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1995 T75.28

Seastrand

Sensenbrenner

Shadegg

Shaw

Shays

Shuster

Skeen

Smith (MI)

Smith (NJ)

Smith (TX)

Smith (WA)

Solomon

Souder

Spence

Stearns

Stenholm

Stockman

Stump

Talent

Tate

Tauzin

Taylor (MS)

Taylor (NC)

Thomas

Thornberry

Tiahrt

Torkildsen

Upton

Vucanovich

Walker

Walsh

Wamp

Weldon (FL)

Weldon (PA)

Weller

White

Whitfield

Young (AK)

Young (FL)

Zeliff

Zimmer

NOT VOTING—24

Bonilla

Bryant (TX)

Clayton

Coburn

Cubin

Dicks

Foglietta

Gephardt

Houghton

Johnson (CT)

Kleczka

Largent

Laughlin

Lofgren

Lucas

Montgomery

Paxon

Peterson (FL)

Spratt

Stark

Thornton

Waldholtz

Watts (OK)

Wicker

So the amendment was not agreed to.

After some further time,

The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr.

WALKER, assumed the Chair.

When Mr. GOODLATTE, Chairman,

reported that the Committee, having

had under consideration said bill, had

come to no resolution thereon.

T75.24 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT—

VETO OF H.R. 1158

The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr.

WALKER, laid before the House a message from the President, which was

read as follows:

To the House of Representatives:

I am returning herewith without my

approval H.R. 1158, a bill providing for

emergency supplemental appropriations and rescissions for fiscal year

1995.

This disagreement is about priorities,

not deficit reduction. In fact, I want to

increase the deficit reduction in this

bill.

H.R. 1158 slashes needed investments

for education, national service, and the

environment, in order to avoid cutting

wasteful projects and other unnecessary expenditures. There are billions of

dollars in pork—unnecessary highway

demonstration projects, courthouses,

and other Federal buildings—that

could have been cut instead of these

critical investments. Indeed, the Senate bill made such cuts in order to

maintain productive investments, but

the House-Senate conference rejected

those cuts.

For example, H.R. 1158 would deprive

15,000 young adults of the opportunity

to serve their communities as

AmeriCorps members.

It would deprive 2,000 schools in 47

States of funds to train teachers and

devise comprehensive reforms to boost

academic standards.

It would reduce or eliminate

antiviolence and drug prevention programs serving nearly 20 million students.

It would prevent the creation and expansion of hundreds of community development banks and financial institutions that would spur job growth and

leverage billions of dollars of capital in

distressed communities across the

country.

And it would seriously hamper the

ability of States to maintain clean

drinking water, thus jeopardizing the

health of residents.

In the end, the Congress chose courthouses over education, pork barrel

highway projects over national service,

Government travel over clean water.

At my instruction, the Administration has provided alternatives to the

Congress that would produce greater

deficit reduction than H.R. 1158, cutting even more in fiscal year 1995

spending than is included in H.R. 1158.

But the spending reductions would

come out of unnecessary projects and

other spending, not investments in

working families.

My position on this legislation has

been made clear throughout the legislative process. The Administration

strongly and consistently opposed the

House version of the bill because it

would have unnecessarily cut valuable,

proven programs that educate our children, invest in our future, and protect

the health and safety of the American

people. We worked closely with the bipartisan leadership of the Senate to

improve the bill, and I indicated my

approval of those improvements. Regrettably, the conference went well beyond the spending reductions contained in the bipartisan compromise

despite my Administration’s consistent

urging to adhere to the Senate bipartisan leadership amendment.

In addition, I continue to object to

language that would override existing

environmental laws in an effort to increase timber salvage. Increasing timber salvage and improving forest

health are goals that my Administration shares with the Congress. Over the

last 6 months, my Administration has

put in motion administrative reforms

that are speeding salvage timber sales

in full compliance with existing environmental laws. It is not appropriate

to use this legislation to overturn environmental laws. Therefore, I urge the

Congress to delete this language and,

separately, to work with my Administration on an initiative to increase

timber salvage and improve forest

health.

My Administration has provided the

Congress with changes that would enable me to sign revised legislation. I

urge the Congress to approve a bill

that contains the supplemental funding

included in H.R. 1158—for disaster relief activities of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, for the

Federal response to the bombing in

Oklahoma City, for increased

antiterrorism efforts, and for providing

debt relief to Jordan in order to contribute to further progress toward a

Middle East peace settlement—along

with my Administration’s alternative

restorations and offsets.

I will sign legislation that provides

these needed supplemental appropriations and that reduces the deficit by at

least as much as this bill. However, the

legislation must reflect the priorities

of the American people. H.R. 1158, as

passed, clearly does not.

WILLIAM J. CLINTON.

THE WHITE HOUSE, June 7, 1995.

The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr.

WALKER, by unanimous consent, ordered that the veto message, together

with the accompanying bill, be printed

(H. Doc. 104–83) and spread upon the

pages of the Journal of the House.

On motion of Mr. LIVINGSTON, by

unanimous consent, the veto message

and accompanying bill were referred to

the Committee on Appropriations.

T75.25 BILL PRESENTED TO THE

PRESIDENT

Mr. THOMAS, from the Committee

on House Administration, reported

that that committee did on the following date present to the President,

for his approval, a bill of the House of

the following title:

On June 6, 1995:

H.R. 1158. An Act making emergency supplemental appropriations for additional disaster assistance, for anti-terrorism initiatives, for assistance in the recovery from the

tragedy that occurred at Oklahoma City, and

making rescissions for the fiscal year ending

September 30, 1995, and for other purposes.

T75.26 LEAVE OF ABSENCE

By unanimous consent, leave of absence was granted—

To Mr. SPRATT, after 8 p.m. today

and balance of the week;

To Mr. LUCAS, for today;

To Mrs. WALDHOLTZ, for today;

To Mr. WALKER, after 5:45 p.m.

today and June 8th;

To Mr. MONTGOMERY, after 5 p.m.

today and balance of the week;

To Ms. LOFGREN, for today and balance of the week; and

To Mr. KLECZKA, for today and balance of the week.

And then,

T75.27 ADJOURNMENT

On motion of Mr. KINGSTON, at 9

o’clock and 19 minutes p.m., the House

adjourned.

T75.28 REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON

PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS

Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of

committees were delivered to the Clerk

for printing and reference to the proper

calendar, as follows:

Mr. YOUNG of Alaska: Committee on Resources. S. 523. An act to amend the Colorado

River Basin Salinity Control Act to authorize additional measures to carry out the control of salinity upstream of Imperial Dam in

a cost-effective manner, and for other purposes (Rept. No. 104–132). Referred to the

Committee of the Whole House on the State

of the Union.

Mr. YOUNG of Alaska: Committee on Resources. H.R. 260. A bill to provide for the development of a plan and a management review of the National Park System and to reform the process by which areas are considered for addition to the National Park System, and for other purposes; with an amendment (Rept. No. 104–133). Referred to the

Committee of the Whole House on the State

of the Union.

Mr. YOUNG of Alaska: Committee on Resources. H.R. 1070. A bill to designate the reservoir created by Trinity Dam in the Central

Valley project, California, as ‘‘Trinity Lake’’

(Rept. No. 104–134). Referred to the House

Calendar.