HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

1497

1995 T125.16

(1) Section 1004(a)(1) of the Oil Pollution

Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2704(a)(1)) is amended

by striking ‘‘for a tank vessel,’’ and inserting ‘‘for a tank vessel carrying oil in bulk as

cargo or cargo residue (except a tank vessel

on which the only oil carried is an animal fat

or vegetable oil, as those terms are used in

section 2 of the Edible Oil Regulatory Reform Act)’’.

(2) Section 1016(a) of the Oil Pollution Act

of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2176(a)) is amended in the

first sentence by striking ‘‘, in the case of a

tank vessel, the responsible party could be

subject under section 1004(a)(1) or (d) of this

Act, or to which, in the case of any other

vessel, the responsible party could be subjected under section 1004(a)(2) or (d)’’ and inserting ‘‘the responsible party could be subjected under section 1004(a) or (d) of this

Act’’.

After debate,

Pursuant to clause 4 of rule XIII, the

previous question on the amendment in

the nature of a substitute and the bill

was considered as ordered.

The question being put, viva voce,

Will the House agree to said amendment in the nature of a substitute?

The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr.

EVERETT, announced that the yeas

had it.

So the amendment in the nature of

substitute was agreed to.

The bill, as amended, was ordered to

be engrossed and read a third time, was

read a third time by title.

The question being put, viva voce,

Will the House pass said bill?

The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr.

EVERETT, announced that three-fifths

of the Members present had voted in

the affirmative.

So, three-fifths of the Members

present having voted in favor thereof,

the bill was passed.

A motion to reconsider the vote

whereby the bill was passed was, by

unanimous consent, laid on the table.

Ordered, That the Clerk request the

concurrence of the Senate in said bill.

T125.11 CLERK TO CORRECT

ENGROSSMENT

On motion of Mr. BURR, by unanimous consent,

Ordered, That in the engrossment of

the foregoing bill, the Clerk be authorized to correct section numbers, punctuation, cross references, and to make

other technical corrections.

T125.12 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

A message in writing from the President of the United States was communicated to the House by Mr. Edwin

Thomas, one of his secretaries.

T125.13 VA NURSES AND ASSISTANTS

Mr. STUMP moved to suspend the

rules and pass the bill (H.R. 1384) to

amend title 38, United States Code, to

exempt certain full-time health-care

professionals of the Department of Veterans Affairs from restrictions on remuneration outside professional activities; as amended.

The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr.

EVERETT, recognized Mr. STUMP and

Mr. MONTGOMERY, each for 20 minutes.

After debate,

The question being put, viva voce,

Will the House suspend the rules and

pass said bill, as amended?

The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr.

EVERETT, announced that two-thirds

of the Members present had voted in

the affirmative.

So, two-thirds of the Members

present having voted in favor thereof,

the rules were suspended and said bill,

as amended, was passed.

A motion to reconsider the vote

whereby the rules were suspended and

said bill, as amended, was passed was,

by unanimous consent, laid on the

table.

Ordered, That the Clerk request the

concurrence of the Senate in said bill.

T125.14 VA NURSE ANESTHETISTS

COMPENSATION

Mr. STUMP moved to suspend the

rules and pass the bill (H.R. 1536) to

amend title 38, United States Code, to

extend for two years an expiring authority of the Secretary of Veterans

Affairs with respect to determination

of locality salaries for certain nurse

anesthetist positions in the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr.

LATHAM, recognized Mr. STUMP and

Mr. MONTGOMERY, each for 20 minutes.

After debate,

The question being put, viva voce,

Will the House suspend the rules and

pass said bill?

The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr.

LATHAM, announced that two-thirds

of the Members present had voted in

the affirmative.

So, two-thirds of the Members

present having voted in favor thereof,

the rules were suspended and said bill

was passed.

A motion to reconsider the vote

whereby the rules were suspended and

said bill was passed was, by unanimous

consent, laid on the table.

Ordered, That the Clerk request the

concurrence of the Senate in said bill.

T125.15 VETERANS COMPENSATION

Mr. STUMP moved to suspend the

rules and pass the bill (H.R. 2394) to increase, effective as of December 1, 1995,

the rates of compensation for veterans

with service-connected disabilities and

the rates of dependency and indemnity

compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans.

The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr.

LATHAM, recognized Mr. STUMP and

Mr. MONTGOMERY, each for 20 minutes.

After debate,

The question being put, viva voce,

Will the House suspend the rules and

pass said bill?

The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr.

LATHAM, announced that two-thirds

of the Members present had voted in

the affirmative.

So, two-thirds of the Members

present having voted in favor thereof,

the rules were suspended and said bill

was passed.

A motion to reconsider the vote

whereby the rules were suspended and

said bill was passed was, by unanimous

consent, laid on the table.

Ordered, That the Clerk request the

concurrence of the Senate in said bill.

T125.16 MESSAGE FROM THE

PRESIDENT—US-REPUBLIC OF

GERMANY SOCIAL SECURITY

AGREEMENT

The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr.

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

read as follows:

To the Congress of the United States:

Pursuant to section 233(e)(1) of the

Social Security Act (the ‘‘Act’’), as

amended by the Social Security

Amendments of 1977 (Public Law 95–216;

42 U.S.C. 433(e)(1)), I transmit herewith

the Second Supplementary Agreement

Amending the Agreement Between the

United States of America and the Federal Republic of Germany on Social Security (the Second Supplementary

Agreement), which consists of two separate instruments: a principal agreement and an administrative arrangement. The Second Supplementary

Agreement, signed at Bonn on March 6,

1995, is intended to modify certain provisions of the original United StatesGermany Social Security Agreement,

signed January 7, 1976, which was

amended once before by the Supplementary Agreement of October 2, 1986.

The United States-Germany Social

Security Agreement is similar in objective to the social security agreements

with Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy,

Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway,

Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,

and the United Kingdom. Such bilateral agreements provide for limited coordination between the United States

and foreign social security systems to

eliminate dual social security coverage

and taxation, and to help prevent the

loss of benefit protection that can

occur when workers divide their careers between two countries.

The present Second Supplementary

Agreement, which would further amend

the 1976 Agreement to update and clarify several of its provisions, is necessitated by changes that have occurred

in U.S. and German law in recent

years. Among other things, it would

extend to U.S. residents the advantages

of recent German Social Security legislation that allows certain ethnic German Jews from Eastern Europe to receive German benefits based on their

Social Security coverage in their

former homelands.

The United States-Germany Social

Security Agreement, as amended,

would continue to contain all provisions mandated by section 233 and

other provisions that I deem appropriate to carry out the provisions of

section 233, pursuant to section

233(c)(4) of the Act.

I also transmit for the information of

the Congress a report prepared by the

Social Security Administration explaining the key points of the Second

Supplementary Agreement, along with

a paragraph-by-paragraph explanation