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T108.24 AUGUST 3

Pickett

Pomeroy

Poshard

Quinn

Rahall

Rangel

Reed

Richardson

Rivers

Roemer

Rose

Roybal-Allard

Rush

Sabo

Sanders

Sawyer

Schroeder

Schumer

Scott

Serrano

Sisisky

Skaggs

Skelton

Slaughter

Spratt

Stark

Stenholm

Stokes

Studds

Stupak

Tanner

Taylor (MS)

Tejeda

Thompson

Thornton

Torkildsen

Torres

Torricelli

Towns

Traficant

Tucker

Velazquez

Vento

Visclosky

Volkmer

Ward

Waters

Watt (NC)

Waxman

Wilson

Wise

Woolsey

Wyden

Wynn

Zimmer

NOT VOTING—8

Andrews

Filner

Moakley

Reynolds

Thurman

Williams

Yates

Young (AK)

So the bill was passed.

A motion to reconsider the vote

whereby 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.

T108.24 CLERK TO CORRECT

ENGROSSMENT

On motion of Mr. LIVINGSTON, 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.

T108.25 ORDER OF BUSINESS—

CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 1555

On motion of Mr. ARMEY, by unanimous consent,

Ordered, That the House convene at 8

o’clock a.m. today and that there be no

intervening motion from the time of

convening until the Pledge of Allegiance; and that further consideration

of the bill (H.R. 1555) to promote competition and reduce regulation in order

to secure lower prices and higher quality services for American telecommunications consumers and encourage the rapid deployment of new

telecommunication technologies in the

Committee of the Whole, pursuant to

House Resolution 207, shall also be governed by the following:

(1) Immediately after the Pledge of

Allegiance, the House shall resolve into

the Committee of the Whole for the

further consideration of H.R. 1555, pursuant to House Resolution 207, without

intervening motion;

(2) Consideration in the Committee

of the Whole shall proceed without intervening motion except the amendments printed in House Report 104–223,

except one motion to rise, if offered by

Mr. Bliley;

(3) That any amendment adopted in

the Committee of the Whole shall be

deemed as having been adopted in the

House; and

(4) That Mr. Conyers shall have permission to modify amendment numbered 2-2.

T108.26 MESSAGE FROM THE

PRESIDENT—NATIONAL URBAN POLICY

REPORT

The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr.

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

read as follows:

To the Congress of the United States:

I transmit herewith my Administration’s National Urban Policy Report,

‘‘Empowerment: A New Covenant With

America’s Communities,’’ as required

by 42 U.S.C. 4503(a). The Report provides a framework for empowering

America’s disadvantaged citizens and

poor communities to build a brighter

future for themselves, for their families and neighbors, and for America.

The Report is organized around four

principles:

First, it links families to work. It

brings tax, education and training,

housing, welfare, public safety, transportation, and capital access policies

together to help families make the

transition to self-sufficiency and independence. This linkage is critical to

the transformation of our communities.

Second, it leverages private investment in our urban communities. It

works with the market and the private

sector to build upon the natural assets

and competitive advantages of urban

communities.

Third, it is locally driven. The days

of made in Washington solutions, dictated by a distant Government, are

gone. Instead, solutions must be locally crafted, and implemented by entrepreneurial public entities, private

actors, and a growing network of community-based firms and organizations.

Fourth, it relies on traditional values—hard work, family, responsibility.

The problems of so many inner-city

neighborhoods—family break-up, teen

pregnancy, abandonment, crime, drug

use—will be solved only if individuals,

families, and communities determine

to help themselves.

These principles reflect an emerging

consensus in the decades-long debate

over urban policy. These principles are

neither Democratic nor Republican:

they are American. They will enable

local communities, individuals and

families, businesses, churches, community-based organizations, and civic

groups to join together to seize the opportunities and to solve the problems

in their own lives. They will put the

private sector back to work for all families in all communities. I therefore invite the Congress to work with us on a

bipartisan basis to implement an empowerment agenda for America’s communities and families.

In a sense, poor communities represent an untapped economic opportunity for our whole country. While we

work together to open foreign markets

abroad to American-made goods and

services, we also need to work together

to open the economic frontiers of poor

communities here at home. By enabling people and communities in genuine need to take greater responsibility for working harder and smarter

together, we can unleash the greatest

underused source of growth and renewal in each of the local regions that

make up our national economy and

civic life. This will be good for cities

and suburbs, towns and villages, and

rural and urban America. This will be

good for families. This will be good for

the country.

We have undertaken initiatives that

seek to achieve these goals. Some seek

to empower local communities to help

themselves, including Empowerment

Zones, Community Development

banks, the Community Opportunity

Fund, community policing, and enabling local schools and communities to

best meet world-class standards. And

some seek to empower individuals and

families to help themselves, including

our expansion of the earned-income tax

cut for low- and moderate-income

working families, and our proposals for

injecting choice and competition into

public and assisted housing and for a

new G.I. Bill for America’s Workers.

I am determined to end Federal budget deficits, and my balanced budget

proposal shows that we can balance the

budget without abandoning the investments that are vital to the security

and prosperity of the country, now and

in the future. I am confident that,

working together, we can build common ground on an empowerment agenda while putting our fiscal house in

order. I will do everything in my power

to make sure this happens.

WILLIAM J. CLINTON.

THE WHITE HOUSE, August 3, 1995.

By unanimous consent, the message,

together with the accompanying papers, was referred to the Committee on

Banking and Financial Services.

T108.27 ADJOURNMENT OF THE TWO

HOUSES

Mr. ARMEY submitted the following

privileged concurrent resolution (H.

Con. Res. 92):

Resolved by the House of Representatives (the

Senate concurring), That when the House adjourns on the legislative day of Thursday,

August 3, 1995 or the legislative day of Friday, August 4, 1995, pursuant to a motion

made by the Majority Leader, or his designee, it stand adjourned until noon on

Wednesday, September 6, 1995, or until noon

on the second day after Members are notified

to reassemble pursuant to section 2 of this

resolution, whichever occurs first; and that

when the Senate recesses or adjourns on any

day beginning on Saturday August 5, 1995,

through Saturday, August 19, 1995, pursuant

to a motion made by the Majority Leader, or

his designee, in accordance with this resolution, it stand recessed or adjourned until

noon on Tuesday, September 5, 1995, or until

such time on that day as may be specified by

the Majority Leader or his designee in the

motion to recess or adjourn, or until noon on

the second day after Members are notified to

reassemble pursuant to section 2 of this concurrent resolution, whichever occurs first.

SEC. 2. The Speaker of the House and the

Majority Leader of the Senate, acting jointly

after consultation with the Minority Leader

of the House and the Minority Leader of the

Senate, shall notify the Members of the

House and Senate, respectively, to reassemble whenever, in their opinion, the public interest shall warrant it.

When said concurrent resolution was

considered and agreed to.

A motion to reconsider the vote

whereby said concurrent resolution