JOURNAL OF THE

1266

T109.8 AUGUST 4

Page 126, after line 16, insert the following

new subsection (and redesignate the succeeding subsections and accordingly):

(f) STANDARD FOR UNREASONABLE RATES

FOR CABLE PROGRAMMING SERVICES.—Section

623(c)(2) of the Act (47 U.S.C. 543(c)) is

amended to read as follows:

‘‘(2) STANDARD FOR UNREASONABLE RATES.—

The Commission may only consider a rate

for cable programming services to be unreasonable if such rate has increased since June

1, 1995, determined on a per-channel basis, by

a percentage that exceeds the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for All

Urban Consumers (as determined by the Department of Labor) since such date.’’.

Page 127, line 4, strike ‘‘or 5 percent’’ and

all that follows through ‘‘greater,’’ on line 6.

Page 129, strike lines 16 through 21 and insert the following:

‘‘(d) UNIFORM RATE STRUCTURE.—A cable

operator shall have a uniform rate structure

throughout its franchise area for the provision of cable services.’’.

Page 130, line 16, insert ‘‘and’’ after the

semicolon, and strike line 20 and all that follows through line 2 on page 131 and insert the

following:

‘‘directly to subscribers in the franchise area

and such franchise area is also served by an

unaffiliated cable system.’’.

Page 131, strike line 6 and all that follows

through line 21, and insert the following:

‘‘(m) SMALL CABLE SYSTEMS.—

‘‘(1) SMALL CABLE SYSTEM RELIEF.—A small

cable system shall not be subject to subsections (a), (b), (c), or (d) in any franchise

area with respect to the provision of cable

programming services, or a basic service tier

where such tier was the only tier offered in

such area on December 31, 1994.

‘‘(2) DEFINITION OF SMALL CABLE SYSTEM.—

For purposes of this subsection, ‘small cable

system’ means a cable system that—

‘‘(A) directly or through an affiliate, serves

in the aggregate fewer than 250,000 cable subscribers in the United States; and

‘‘(B) directly serves fewer than 10,000 cable

subscribers in its franchise area.’’.

It was decided in the Yeas ....... 148 ! negative ....................... Nays ...... 275

T109.8 [Roll No. 628]

AYES—148

Abercrombie

Baesler

Barcia

Barrett (WI)

Becerra

Beilenson

Bereuter

Bishop

Boehlert

Borski

Boucher

Brown (CA)

Brown (FL)

Brown (OH)

Bunning

Cardin

Clay

Clayton

Clement

Clyburn

Coleman

Collins (IL)

Collins (MI)

Conyers

Costello

Coyne

DeFazio

DeLauro

Dellums

Dingell

Doyle

Duncan

Durbin

Engel

Evans

Farr

Fattah

Fields (LA)

Filner

Foglietta

Ford

Frank (MA)

Franks (NJ)

Furse

Gejdenson

Gilman

Gonzalez

Gordon

Green

Gutierrez

Hastings (FL)

Hefner

Hilliard

Hinchey

Holden

Horn

Hyde

Jackson-Lee

Jacobs

Johnson (SD)

Johnson, E. B.

Johnston

Kanjorski

Kaptur

Kennedy (MA)

Kennedy (RI)

Kennelly

Kildee

Kleczka

Klink

LaFalce

Lantos

Leach

Levin

Lewis (GA)

Lipinski

Lowey

Luther

Maloney

Markey

Mascara

McCarthy

McDermott

McHugh

McKinney

McNulty

Meehan

Meek

Menendez

Mfume

Minge

Mink

Mollohan

Moran

Morella

Murtha

Nadler

Neal

Nussle

Oberstar

Obey

Olver

Owens

Pallone

Payne (NJ)

Pomeroy

Porter

Poshard

Rahall

Reed

Regula

Rivers

Roemer

Rogers

Roybal-Allard

Rush

Sabo

Sanders

Sawyer

Schumer

Scott

Serrano

Shays

Skelton

Slaughter

Stark

Stokes

Studds

Stupak

Tanner

Thompson

Torres

Torricelli

Tucker

Velazquez

Vento

Visclosky

Volkmer

Ward

Waters

Watt (NC)

Waxman

Weldon (PA)

Wise

Woolsey

Wyden

Wynn

Yates

NOES—275

Ackerman

Allard

Archer

Armey

Bachus

Baker (CA)

Baker (LA)

Baldacci

Ballenger

Barr

Barrett (NE)

Bartlett

Barton

Bass

Bentsen

Berman

Bevill

Bilbray

Bilirakis

Bliley

Blute

Boehner

Bonilla

Bonior

Bono

Brewster

Browder

Brownback

Bryant (TN)

Bryant (TX)

Bunn

Burr

Burton

Buyer

Callahan

Calvert

Camp

Canady

Castle

Chabot

Chambliss

Chapman

Chenoweth

Christensen

Chrysler

Clinger

Coble

Collins (GA)

Combest

Condit

Cooley

Cox

Cramer

Crane

Crapo

Cremeans

Cubin

Cunningham

Danner

Davis

de la Garza

Deal

DeLay

Deutsch

Diaz-Balart

Dickey

Dicks

Dixon

Doggett

Dooley

Doolittle

Dornan

Dreier

Dunn

Edwards

Ehlers

Ehrlich

Emerson

English

Ensign

Eshoo

Everett

Ewing

Fawell

Fazio

Fields (TX)

Flake

Flanagan

Foley

Forbes

Fowler

Fox

Franks (CT)

Frelinghuysen

Frisa

Frost

Funderburk

Gallegly

Ganske

Gekas

Gephardt

Geren

Gibbons

Gilchrest

Gillmor

Goodlatte

Goodling

Goss

Graham

Greenwood

Gunderson

Gutknecht

Hall (OH)

Hall (TX)

Hamilton

Hancock

Hansen

Harman

Hastert

Hastings (WA)

Hayes

Hayworth

Hefley

Heineman

Herger

Hilleary

Hobson

Hoekstra

Hoke

Hostettler

Houghton

Hoyer

Hunter

Inglis

Istook

Jefferson

Johnson (CT)

Johnson, Sam

Jones

Kasich

Kelly

Kim

King

Kingston

Klug

Knollenberg

Kolbe

LaHood

Largent

Latham

LaTourette

Laughlin

Lazio

Lewis (CA)

Lewis (KY)

Lightfoot

Lincoln

Linder

Livingston

LoBiondo

Lofgren

Longley

Lucas

Manton

Manzullo

Martinez

Martini

Matsui

McCollum

McCrery

McDade

McHale

McInnis

McIntosh

McKeon

Metcalf

Meyers

Mica

Miller (CA)

Miller (FL)

Mineta

Molinari

Montgomery

Moorhead

Myers

Myrick

Nethercutt

Neumann

Ney

Norwood

Orton

Oxley

Packard

Parker

Pastor

Paxon

Payne (VA)

Pelosi

Peterson (FL)

Peterson (MN)

Petri

Pickett

Pombo

Portman

Pryce

Quillen

Quinn

Radanovich

Ramstad

Rangel

Richardson

Riggs

Roberts

Rohrabacher

Ros-Lehtinen

Rose

Roth

Roukema

Royce

Salmon

Sanford

Saxton

Schaefer

Schiff

Schroeder

Seastrand

Sensenbrenner

Shadegg

Shaw

Shuster

Sisisky

Skaggs

Skeen

Smith (MI)

Smith (NJ)

Smith (TX)

Smith (WA)

Solomon

Souder

Spence

Spratt

Stearns

Stenholm

Stockman

Stump

Talent

Tate

Tauzin

Taylor (MS)

Taylor (NC)

Tejeda

Thomas

Thornberry

Thornton

Tiahrt

Torkildsen

Towns

Traficant

Upton

Vucanovich

Waldholtz

Walker

Walsh

Wamp

Watts (OK)

Weldon (FL)

Weller

White

Whitfield

Wicker

Wilson

Wolf

Young (FL)

Zeliff

Zimmer

NOT VOTING—11

Andrews

Bateman

Coburn

Hutchinson

Moakley

Ortiz

Reynolds

Scarborough

Thurman

Williams

Young (AK)

So the amendment was not agreed to.

T109.9 RECORDED VOTE

A recorded vote by electronic device

was ordered in the Committee of the

Whole on the following amendment

submitted by Mr. STUPAK:

Page 14, beginning on line 8, strike section

243 through page 16, line 9, and insert the following (and conform the table of contents

accordingly):

SEC. 243. REMOVAL OF BARRIERS TO ENTRY.

(a) IN GENERAL.—No State or local statute

or regulation, or other State or local legal

requirement, may prohibit or have the effect

of prohibiting the ability of any entity to

provide interstate or intrastate telecommunications services.

(b) STATE AND LOCAL AUTHORITY.—Nothing

in this section shall affect the ability of a

State or local government to impose, on a

competitively neutral basis and consistent

with section 247 (relating to universal service), requirements necessary to preserve and

advance universal service, protect the public

safety and welfare, ensure the continued

quality of telecommunications services, and

safeguard the rights of consumers.

(c) LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTHORITY.—Nothing in this Act affects the authority of a

local government to manage the public

rights-of-way or to require fair and reasonable compensation from telecommunications

providers, on a competitively neutral and

nondiscriminatory basis, for use of the

rights-of-way on a nondiscriminatory basis,

if the compensation required is publicly disclosed by such government.

(d) EXCEPTION.—In the case of commercial

mobile services, the provisions of section

332(c)(3) shall apply in lieu of the provisions

of this section.

It was decided in the Yeas ....... 338 ! affirmative ................... Nays ...... 86

T109.10 [Roll No. 629]

AYES—338

Abercrombie

Ackerman

Armey

Baesler

Baker (LA)

Baldacci

Barcia

Barr

Barrett (WI)

Bartlett

Barton

Bass

Becerra

Beilenson

Bentsen

Bereuter

Berman

Bevill

Bilirakis

Bishop

Blute

Boehlert

Bonilla

Bonior

Borski

Brewster

Browder

Brown (CA)

Brown (FL)

Brown (OH)

Brownback

Bryant (TN)

Bryant (TX)

Burton

Calvert

Camp

Canady

Cardin

Chambliss

Chapman

Chrysler

Clay

Clayton

Clement

Clinger

Clyburn

Coble

Coburn

Collins (GA)

Collins (IL)

Collins (MI)

Condit

Conyers

Cooley

Costello

Coyne

Cramer

Crane

Cubin

Cunningham

Danner

Davis

de la Garza

DeFazio

DeLauro

Dellums

Diaz-Balart

Dicks

Dingell

Dixon

Doggett

Dooley

Doolittle

Dornan

Doyle

Dreier

Duncan

Dunn

Durbin

Edwards

Ehlers

Ehrlich

Emerson

Engel

English

Ensign

Eshoo

Evans

Everett

Farr

Fattah

Fawell

Fazio
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

1267

1995 T109.12

Fields (LA)

Filner

Flake

Flanagan

Foglietta

Foley

Forbes

Ford

Fowler

Frank (MA)

Frelinghuysen

Frost

Funderburk

Furse

Gallegly

Gejdenson

Gekas

Gephardt

Geren

Gibbons

Gilchrest

Gilman

Gonzalez

Goodlatte

Goodling

Gordon

Goss

Graham

Green

Gutierrez

Hall (OH)

Hall (TX)

Hamilton

Harman

Hastings (FL)

Hastings (WA)

Hayes

Hayworth

Hefner

Heineman

Hilleary

Hilliard

Hinchey

Hobson

Hoekstra

Hoke

Holden

Horn

Hoyer

Hunter

Hyde

Istook

Jackson-Lee

Jacobs

Jefferson

Johnson (CT)

Johnson (SD)

Johnson, E.B.

Johnson, Sam

Johnston

Jones

Kanjorski

Kaptur

Kasich

Kelly

Kennedy (MA)

Kennedy (RI)

Kennelly

Kildee

Kim

Kingston

Kleczka

Klink

Klug

Knollenberg

LaFalce

LaHood

Lantos

LaTourette

Levin

Lewis (GA)

Lewis (KY)

Lightfoot

Lincoln

Linder

Lipinski

Lofgren

Lowey

Lucas

Luther

Maloney

Manton

Manzullo

Markey

Martinez

Martini

Mascara

Matsui

McCarthy

McCollum

McDade

McDermott

McHale

McHugh

McIntosh

McKeon

McKinney

McNulty

Meehan

Meek

Menendez

Meyers

Mfume

Miller (CA)

Miller (FL)

Mineta

Minge

Mink

Molinari

Mollohan

Montgomery

Moorhead

Moran

Morella

Murtha

Myers

Myrick

Nadler

Neal

Nethercutt

Neumann

Ney

Nussle

Oberstar

Obey

Olver

Orton

Owens

Pallone

Pastor

Payne (NJ)

Payne (VA)

Pelosi

Peterson (FL)

Peterson (MN)

Petri

Pickett

Pombo

Pomeroy

Porter

Portman

Poshard

Pryce

Quillen

Quinn

Radanovich

Rahall

Ramstad

Rangel

Reed

Regula

Richardson

Riggs

Rivers

Roberts

Roemer

Ros-Lehtinen

Rose

Roth

Roukema

Roybal-Allard

Rush

Sabo

Salmon

Sanders

Sanford

Sawyer

Saxton

Schiff

Schroeder

Schumer

Scott

Seastrand

Sensenbrenner

Serrano

Shaw

Shays

Shuster

Sisisky

Skaggs

Skelton

Slaughter

Smith (MI)

Smith (NJ)

Smith (TX)

Smith (WA)

Solomon

Spence

Spratt

Stark

Stearns

Stenholm

Stockman

Stokes

Studds

Stupak

Tanner

Tauzin

Taylor (MS)

Taylor (NC)

Tejeda

Thomas

Thompson

Thornton

Tiahrt

Torkildsen

Torres

Torricelli

Towns

Traficant

Tucker

Upton

Velazquez

Vento

Visclosky

Volkmer

Waldholtz

Walsh

Wamp

Ward

Waters

Watt (NC)

Watts (OK)

Waxman

Weldon (FL)

Weldon (PA)

Wilson

Wise

Wolf

Woolsey

Wyden

Wynn

Yates

Young (FL)

Zeliff

NOES—86

Allard

Archer

Bachus

Baker (CA)

Ballenger

Barrett (NE)

Bilbray

Bliley

Boehner

Bono

Boucher

Bunn

Bunning

Burr

Buyer

Callahan

Castle

Chabot

Chenoweth

Christensen

Coleman

Combest

Cox

Crapo

Cremeans

Deal

DeLay

Deutsch

Dickey

Ewing

Fields (TX)

Fox

Franks (CT)

Franks (NJ)

Frisa

Ganske

Gillmor

Greenwood

Gunderson

Gutknecht

Hancock

Hansen

Hastert

Hefley

Herger

Hostettler

Houghton

Inglis

King

Kolbe

Largent

Latham

Laughlin

Lazio

Leach

Lewis (CA)

Livingston

LoBiondo

Longley

McCrery

McInnis

Metcalf

Mica

Norwood

Oxley

Packard

Parker

Paxon

Rogers

Rohrabacher

Royce

Schaefer

Shadegg

Skeen

Souder

Stump

Talent

Tate

Thornberry

Vucanovich

Walker

Weller

White

Whitfield

Wicker

Zimmer

NOT VOTING—10

Andrews

Bateman

Hutchinson

Moakley

Ortiz

Reynolds

Scarborough

Thurman

Williams

Young (AK)

So the amendment was agreed to.

T109.11 RECORDED VOTE

A recorded vote by electronic device

was ordered in the Committee of the

Whole on the following amendment, as

modified, submitted by Mr. CONYERS:

Page 26, strike line 6 and insert the following:

‘‘(c) COMMISSION AND ATTORNEY GENERAL

REVIEW.—

Page 26, lines 8 and 10, page 27, lines 6 and

9, strike ‘‘Commission’’ and insert ‘‘Commission and Attorney General’’.

Page 27, lines 4 and 12, insert ‘‘COMMISSION’’ before ‘‘DECISION’’.

Page 27, after line 21, insert the following

new paragraph:

‘‘(5) ATTORNEY GENERAL DECISION.—

‘‘(A) PUBLICATION.—Not later than 10 days

after receiving a verification under this section, the Attorney General shall publish the

verification in the Federal Register.

‘‘(B) AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION.—The

Attorney General shall make available to

the public all information (excluding trade

secrets and privileged or confidential commercial or financial information) submitted

by the Bell operating company in connection

with the verification.

‘‘(C) COMMENT PERIOD.—Not later than 45

days after a verification is published under

subparagraph (A), interested persons may

submit written comments to the Attorney

General, regarding the verification. Submitted comments shall be available to the

public.

‘‘(D) DETERMINATION.—After the time for

comment under subparagraph (C) has expired, but not later than 90 days after receiving a verification under this subsection, the

Attorney General shall issue a written determination, with respect to approving the

verification with respect to the authorization for which the Bell operating company

has applied. If the Attorney General fails to

issue such determination in the 90-day period

beginning on the date the Attorney General

receives such verification, the Attorney General shall be deemed to have issued a determination approving such verification on the

last day of such period.

‘‘(E) STANDARD FOR DECISION.—The Attorney General shall approve such verification

unless the Attorney General finds there is a

dangerous probability that such company or

its affiliates would successfully use market

power to substantially impede competition

in the market such company seeks to enter.

‘‘(F) PUBLICATION.—Not later than 10 days

after issuing a determination under subparagraph (E), the Attorney General shall publish a brief description of the determination

in the Federal Register.

‘‘(G) FINALITY.—A determination made

under subparagraph (E) shall be final unless

a petition with respect to such determination is timely filed under subparagraph (H).

‘‘(H) JUDICIAL REVIEW.—

‘‘(i) FILING OF PETITION.—Not later than 30

days after a determination by the Attorney

General is published under subparagraph (F),

the Bell operating company that submitted

the verification, or any person who would be

injured in its business or property as a result

of the determination regarding such company’s engaging in provision of interLATA

services, may file a petition for judicial review of the determination in the United

States Court of Appeals for the District of

Columbia Circuit. The United States Court

of Appeals for the District of Columbia shall

have exclusive jurisdiction to review determinations made under this paragraph.

‘‘(ii) CERTIFICATION OF RECORD.—As part of

the answer to the petition, the Attorney

General shall file in such court a certified

copy of the record upon which the determination is based.

‘‘(iii) CONSOLIDATION OF PETITIONS.—The

court shall consolidate for judicial review all

petitions filed under this subparagraph with

respect to the verification.

‘‘(iv) JUDGMENT.—The court shall enter a

judgment after reviewing the determination

in accordance with section 706 of title 5 of

the United States Code. The determination

required by subparagraph (E) shall be affirmed by the court only if the court finds

that the record certified pursuant to clause

(ii) provides substantial evidence for that determination.’’

Page 29, line 8, insert ‘‘and the Attorney

General’s’’ after ‘‘the Commission’s’’.

It was decided in the Yeas ....... 151 ! negative ....................... Nays ...... 271

T109.12 [Roll No. 630]

AYES—151

Abercrombie

Ackerman

Barcia

Barrett (WI)

Becerra

Beilenson

Bentsen

Bereuter

Berman

Bono

Borski

Brown (CA)

Bryant (TX)

Bunn

Canady

Cardin

Chabot

Chapman

Clyburn

Coleman

Collins (IL)

Collins (MI)

Conyers

Cooley

Costello

Coyne

Cremeans

Cunningham

Danner

DeFazio

DeLauro

Dellums

Dixon

Doggett

Durbin

Edwards

Evans

Farr

Fawell

Fazio

Filner

Flake

Foglietta

Ford

Frost

Furse

Gejdenson

Gekas

Gephardt

Gibbons

Gonzalez

Goss

Green

Gutierrez

Hall (OH)

Heineman

Hinchey

Hobson

Holden

Hostettler

Hoyer

Hyde

Jackson-Lee

Jacobs

Johnson (SD)

Johnson, E. B.

Johnston

Kanjorski

Kaptur

Kasich

Kildee

Kleczka

Klink

Knollenberg

LaFalce

Lantos

LaTourette

Leach

Levin

Lewis (KY)

Lipinski

Lofgren

Luther

Martinez

Matsui

McCarthy

McCollum

McDermott

McHale

Meyers

Mfume

Miller (CA)

Mineta

Mink

Myers

Nadler

Neumann

Norwood

Oberstar

Obey

Olver

Orton

Owens

Pastor

Payne (NJ)

Pomeroy

Poshard

Quillen

Ramstad

Rangel

Reed

Richardson

Rivers

Rogers

Rose

Roybal-Allard

Rush

Sabo

Sanders

Sawyer

Schiff

Schroeder

Schumer

Scott

Sensenbrenner

Serrano

Skelton

Slaughter

Smith (MI)

Spratt

Stark

Stenholm

Stokes

Studds

Stupak

Thomas

Thornton

Torres

Torricelli

Traficant

Tucker

Velazquez

Vento

Volkmer

Waters

Watt (NC)

Waxman

Whitfield

Woolsey

Wyden

Yates

NOES—271

Allard

Archer

Armey

Bachus

Baesler

Baker (CA)

Baker (LA)

Baldacci

Ballenger