HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

1407

1995 T118.9

amendment are waived. After disposition of

that amendment, the provisions of the bill as

then perfected shall be considered as original

text. During further consideration of the bill

for amendment, the Chairman of the Committee of the whole may accord priority in

recognition on the basis of whether the

Member offering an amendment has caused

it to be printed in the portion of the Congressional Record designated for that purpose in clause 6 of rule XXIII. Amendments

so printed shall be considered as read. At the

conclusion of consideration of the bill for

amendment the Committee shall rise and report the bill to the House with such amendments as may have been adopted. Any Member may demand a separate vote in the

House on any amendment adopted in the

Committee of the Whole to the bill or to the

amendment in the nature of a substitute

made in order as original text. The previous

question shall be considered as ordered on

the bill and amendments thereto to final

passage without intervening motion except

one motion to recommit with or without instructions.

When said resolution was considered.

After debate,

T118.8 POINT OF ORDER

Mr. QUILLEN made a point of order

during the remarks of the gentlemen

from Texas [Mr. DOGGETT], and said:

‘‘Mr. Speaker, I make a point of

order that the gentleman from Texas

[Mr. DOGGETT] is in violation of House

rule XIV that requires Members to confine themselves to the question under

consideration.

‘‘Mr. Speaker, the question under

consideration is House Resolution 224,

the rule for the highway bill, and has

nothing to do with Medicare.’’.

Mr. FROST was recognized to speak

to the point of order and said:

‘‘Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from

Tennessee [Mr. QUILLEN] objects to the

gentleman from Texas [Mr. DOGGETT]

speaking about the resolution of the

gentleman from Michigan [Mr. DINGELL], when the matter before the

House is the rule on H.R. 2274.

‘‘The Speaker has ruled on this issue

several times in recent years. Probably

the clearest guidelines about relevant

speech during consideration of a rule

come from the Speaker’s ruling of September 27, 1990, and I quote:

In the Chair’s opinion discussing the priority

of business is within the confines of the resolution . . . the Chair has ruled that it is certainly within the debate rules of this House

to debate whether or not this rule ought to

be adopted or another procedure ought to be

adopted by the House . . . but when debate

ranges into the merits of the relative bills

not yet before the House, the Chair would

admonish the Members that that goes beyond the resolution . . .

‘‘Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from

Texas [Mr. DOGGETT] has not discussed

the merits of Medicare legislation. He

has not discussed the details of it or

engaged in anything like a debate on

that important measure. Mr. Speaker,

the gentleman from Texas has confined

himself to the priority of business argument, that the House ought to be debating the resolution of the gentleman

from Michigan [Mr. DINGELL] providing

for hearings, providing for additional

hearings, on Medicare before it gets to

this important matter dealing with

transportation. The gentleman from

Texas has confined himself to the question of whether to adopt the rule before

us or a different rule making in order

the gentleman from Michigan’s resolution that provides for hearings on

Medicare.

‘‘Mr. Speaker, I believe the speech of

the gentleman from Texas [Mr.

DOGGETT] is relevant.’’.

Mr. DOGGETT was recognized to

speak to the point of order and said:

‘‘Mr. Speaker, as my colleague from

Texas has just pointed out, the focus of

my remarks from the outset is the priority of legislative business. If a rule is

not an appropriate time to discuss the

priority of legislative business, I know

not when one could discuss the priority, and of course my reason for raising this issue of priority is that I made

a parliamentary inquiry only about an

hour ago to the Speaker to find out

how is it possible to get before the

House a resolution signed by 201 Members of this House asking for more

complete and fair hearings on Medicare, and I was told there was no way

to do that without the approval of

Speaker GINGRICH. So it seemed to me

this was an appropriate way to discuss

priorities because I would be denied, as

has every other Member of this House,

any other way of getting the issue before the House.

‘‘So, Mr. Speaker, this is a discussion

of priorities which I plan, in the brief

minute I have remaining, to intermingle with the highway bill under

consideration because the two are very

related.’’.

The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr.

DICKEY, sustained the point of order,

and said:

‘‘Debate on a special order providing

for the consideration of a bill may

range to the merits of the bill to be

made in order since the question of

consideration of the bill is involved,

but should not range to the merits of a

measure not to be considered under

that special order.

‘‘The gentleman from Tennessee [Mr.

QUILLEN] has made the point of order

that the gentleman from Texas [Mr.

DOGGETT] is engaging in irrelevant debate. Because the gentleman’s remarks

have in some respects extended to the

merits of other measures, the Chair

finds that the point of order is well

taken.’’.

After further debate,

Mr. QUILLEN moved the previous

question on the resolution to its adoption or rejection.

The question being put, viva voce,

Will the House now order the previous question?

The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr.

DICKEY, announced that the yeas had

it.

Mr. FROST objected to the vote on

the ground that a quorum was not

present and not voting.

A quorum not being present,

The roll was called under clause 4,

rule XV, and the call was taken by

electronic device.

When there appeared Yeas ....... 241 ! Nays ...... 173

T118.9 [Roll No. 674]

YEAS—241

Allard

Archer

Armey

Bachus

Baker (CA)

Baker (LA)

Ballenger

Barr

Barrett (NE)

Bartlett

Barton

Bass

Bateman

Bereuter

Bilbray

Bilirakis

Bliley

Blute

Boehlert

Boehner

Bonilla

Bono

Brownback

Bryant (TN)

Bunn

Bunning

Burr

Burton

Buyer

Callahan

Calvert

Camp

Canady

Castle

Chabot

Chambliss

Chenoweth

Christensen

Chrysler

Clinger

Coble

Coburn

Collins (GA)

Combest

Condit

Cooley

Cox

Crane

Crapo

Cremeans

Cubin

Cunningham

Davis

Deal

DeLay

Diaz-Balart

Dickey

Doolittle

Dornan

Doyle

Dreier

Duncan

Dunn

Ehlers

Ehrlich

Emerson

English

Ensign

Everett

Ewing

Fawell

Fields (TX)

Flanagan

Foley

Forbes

Fowler

Fox

Franks (CT)

Franks (NJ)

Frelinghuysen

Frisa

Funderburk

Gallegly

Ganske

Gekas

Gilchrest

Gillmor

Gilman

Goodlatte

Goodling

Goss

Graham

Greenwood

Gunderson

Gutknecht

Hall (TX)

Hamilton

Hancock

Hansen

Hastert

Hastings (WA)

Hayes

Hayworth

Hefley

Heineman

Herger

Hilleary

Hobson

Hoekstra

Hoke

Horn

Hostettler

Houghton

Hunter

Hutchinson

Hyde

Inglis

Istook

Johnson (CT)

Johnson, Sam

Jones

Kanjorski

Kasich

Kelly

Kim

King

Kingston

Klink

Klug

Knollenberg

Kolbe

LaHood

Largent

Latham

LaTourette

Laughlin

Lazio

Leach

Lewis (CA)

Lewis (KY)

Lightfoot

Linder

Livingston

LoBiondo

Longley

Lucas

Manzullo

Martini

McCollum

McCrery

McDade

McHugh

McInnis

McIntosh

McKeon

Metcalf

Meyers

Mica

Miller (FL)

Molinari

Montgomery

Moorhead

Morella

Murtha

Myers

Myrick

Nethercutt

Neumann

Ney

Norwood

Nussle

Oxley

Packard

Parker

Paxon

Petri

Pombo

Porter

Portman

Pryce

Quillen

Radanovich

Rahall

Ramstad

Regula

Riggs

Roberts

Rogers

Rohrabacher

Ros-Lehtinen

Rose

Roth

Roukema

Royce

Salmon

Sanford

Saxton

Scarborough

Schaefer

Seastrand

Sensenbrenner

Shadegg

Shaw

Shays

Shuster

Smith (MI)

Smith (NJ)

Smith (TX)

Smith (WA)

Solomon

Souder

Spence

Stearns

Stockman

Stump

Talent

Tate

Tauzin

Taylor (MS)

Taylor (NC)

Thomas

Thornberry

Tiahrt

Torkildsen

Upton

Vucanovich

Waldholtz

Walker

Walsh

Wamp

Weldon (FL)

Weldon (PA)

Weller

White

Whitfield

Wicker

Wolf

Young (AK)

Young (FL)

Zeliff

Zimmer

NAYS—173

Abercrombie

Ackerman

Andrews

Baesler

Baldacci

Barcia

Barrett (WI)

Becerra

Beilenson

Bentsen

Berman

Bevill

Bishop

Bonior

Borski

Boucher

Brewster

Browder

Brown (CA)

Brown (OH)

Bryant (TX)

Cardin

Chapman

Clay

Clayton

Clement

Clyburn

Coleman

Collins (MI)

Costello

Coyne

Cramer

Danner