JOURNAL OF THE

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Jefferson

Johnson, E. B.

Johnston

Kanjorski

Kaptur

Kennedy (MA)

Kennedy (RI)

Kennelly

Kildee

Kleczka

Klink

LaFalce

Lantos

Levin

Lewis (GA)

Lincoln

Lipinski

Lofgren

Lowey

Luther

Maloney

Manton

Markey

Martinez

Mascara

Matsui

McCarthy

McDermott

McHale

McKinney

McNulty

Meehan

Meek

Menendez

Mfume

Miller (CA)

Mineta

Minge

Mink

Mollohan

Montgomery

Moran

Murtha

Nadler

Neal

Oberstar

Obey

Olver

Ortiz

Orton

Owens

Pallone

Pastor

Payne (NJ)

Payne (VA)

Pelosi

Peterson (FL)

Peterson (MN)

Pickett

Pomeroy

Poshard

Rahall

Reed

Rivers

Roemer

Rose

Roybal-Allard

Rush

Sabo

Sanders

Sawyer

Schroeder

Schumer

Scott

Serrano

Sisisky

Skaggs

Skelton

Slaughter

Spratt

Stark

Stenholm

Stokes

Studds

Stupak

Tanner

Tauzin

Taylor (MS)

Tejeda

Thompson

Thornton

Thurman

Torres

Torricelli

Towns

Tucker

Vela ́zquez

Vento

Visclosky

Volkmer

Ward

Waters

Watt (NC)

Waxman

Williams

Wilson

Wise

Woolsey

Wyden

Wynn

Yates

NOT VOTING—10

Brown (CA)

Collins (MI)

Ford

Green

Johnson (SD)

Moakley

Rangel

Reynolds

Richardson

Waldholtz

So the previous question on the resolution was ordered.

The question being put, viva voce,

Will the House agree to said resolution?

The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr.

BARRETT of Nebraska, announced

that the yeas had it.

So the resolution was agreed to.

A motion to reconsider the vote

whereby said resolution was agreed to

was, by unanimous consent, laid on the

table.

T96.9 TREASURY-POSTAL SERVICE

APPROPRIATIONS, FY 1996

The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr.

BARRETT of Nebraska, pursuant to

House Resolution 190 and rule XXIII,

declared the House resolved into the

Committee of the Whole House on the

state of the Union for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 2020) making appropriations for the Treasury Department, the United States Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, and certain Independent Agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, and for other purposes.

The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr.

BARRETT of Nebraska, by unanimous

consent, designated Mr. DREIER as

Chairman of the Committee of the

Whole; and after some time spent

therein,

The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr.

WATTS of Oklahoma, assumed the

Chair.

When Mr. DREIER, Chairman, reported that the Committee, having had

under consideration said bill, had come

to no resolution thereon.

T96.10 COMMITTEES AND SUBCOMMITTEES

TO SIT

On motion of Mr. LIGHTFOOT, by

unanimous consent, the following committees and their subcommittees were

granted permission to sit during the 5-

minute rule today: the Committee on

Agriculture, the Committee on Commerce, the Committee on Government

Reform and Oversight, the Committee

on House Oversight, the Committee on

International Relations, the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on Resources, the Committee on

Small Business, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

T96.11 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT—

NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT

TO SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO

The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr.

WATTS of Oklahoma, laid before the

House a message from the President,

which was read as follows:

To the Congress of the United States:

On May 30, 1992, in Executive Order

No. 12808, the President declared a national emergency to deal with the

threat to the national security, foreign

policy, and economy of the United

States arising from actions and policies of the Governments of Serbia and

Montenegro, acting under the name of

the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia or the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, in their involvement in and support for groups attempting to seize territory in Croatia and the Republic of

Bosnia and Herzegovina by force and

violence utilizing, in part, the forces of

the so-called Yugoslav National Army

(57 FR 23299, June 2, 1992). I expanded

the national emergency in Executive

Order No. 12934 of October 25, 1994, to

address the actions and policies of the

Bosnian Serb forces and the authorities

in the territory of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina that they control.

The present report is submitted pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1641(c) and 1703(c). It

discusses Administration actions and

expenses directly related to the exercise of powers and authorities conferred by the declaration of a national

emergency in Executive Order No. 12808

and Executive Order No. 12934 and to

expanded sanctions against the Federal

Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and

Montenegro) (the ‘‘FRY (S/M)’’) and

the Bosnian Serbs contained in Executive Order No. 12810 of June 5, 1992 (57

FR 24347, June 9, 1992), Executive Order

No. 12831 of January 15, 1993 (58 FR 5253,

Jan. 21, 1993), Executive Order No. 12846

of April 25, 1993 (58 FR 25771, April 27,

1993), and Executive Order No. 12934 of

October 25, 1994 (59 FR 54117, October

27, 1994).

1. Executive Order No. 12808 blocked

all property and interests in property

of the Governments of Serbia and Montenegro, or held in the name of the

former Government of the Socialist

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia or the

Government of the Federal Republic of

Yugoslavia, then or thereafter located

in the United States or within the possession or control of U.S. persons, including their overseas branches.

Subsequently, Executive Order No.

12810 expanded U.S. actions to implement in the United States the United

Nations sanctions against the FRY (S/

M) adopted in United Nations Security

Council (‘‘UNSC’’) Resolution 757 of

May 30, 1992. In addition to reaffirming

the blocking of FRY (S/M) Government

property, this order prohibited transactions with respect to the FRY (S/M)

involving imports, exports, dealing in

FRY-origin property, air and sea transportation, contract performance, funds

transfers, activity promoting importation or exportation or dealings in property, and official sports, scientific,

technical, or other cultural representation of, or sponsorship by, the FRY (S/

M) in the United States.

Executive Order No. 12810 exempted

from trade restrictions (1) transshipments through the FRY (S/M), and (2)

activities related to the United Nations

Protection Force (‘‘UNPROFOR’’), the

Conference on Yugoslavia, or the European Community Monitor Mission.

On January 15, 1993, President Bush

issued Executive Order No. 12831 to implement new sanctions contained in

U.N. Security Council Resolution 787 of

November 16, 1992. The order revoked

the exemption for transshipments

through the FRY (S/M) contained in

Executive Order No. 12810, prohibited

transactions within the United States

or by a U.S. person relating to FRY (S/

M) vessels and vessels in which a majority or controlling interest is held by

a person or entity in, or operating

from, the FRY (S/M), and stated that

all such vessels shall be considered as

vessels of the FRY (S/M), regardless of

the flag under which they sail.

On April 25, 1993, I issued Executive

Order No. 12846 to implement in the

United States the sanctions adopted in

UNSC Resolution 820 of April 17, 1993.

That resolution called on the Bosnian

Serbs to accept the Vance-Owen peace

plan for the Republic of Bosnia and

Herzegovina and, if they failed to do so

by April 26, called on member states to

take additional measures to tighten

the embargo against the FRY (S/M)

and Serbian controlled areas of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and

the United Nations Protected Areas in

Croatia. Effective April 26, 1993, the

order blocked all property and interests in property of commercial, industrial, or public utility undertakings or

entities organized or located in the

FRY (S/M), including property and interests in property of entities (wherever organized or located) owned or

controlled by such undertakings or entities, that are or thereafter come

within the possession or control of U.S.

persons.

On October 25, 1994, in view of UNSC

Resolution 942 of September 23, 1994, I

issued Executive Order No. 12934 in

order to take additional steps with respect to the crisis in the former Yugoslavia. (59 FR 54117, October 27, 1994.)

Executive Order No. 12934 expands the

scope of the national emergency declared in Executive Order No. 12808 to

address the unusual and extraordinary