HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

1335

1995 T114.12

vide for the downward adjustment of discretionary spending limits in appropriation

bills. The first reading of the bill shall be

dispensed with. General debate shall be confined to the bill and shall not exceed one

hour equally divided and controlled by the

chairman and ranking minority member of

the Committee on Rules. After general debate the bill shall be considered for amendment under the five-minute rule. It shall be

in order to consider as an original bill for the

purpose of amendment under the five-minute

rule the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on

Rules. The committee amendment in the nature of a substitute shall be considered as

read. Points of order against the committee

amendment in the nature of a substitute for

failure to comply with clause 7 of rule XVI

are waived. During 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

committee amendment in the nature of a

substitute. 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,

By unanimous consent, the previous

question was ordered on the resolution

to its adoption or rejection and under

the operation thereof, 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.

T114.10 DEFICIT REDUCTION LOCK-BOX

The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr.

GOODLATTE, pursuant to House Resolution 218 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. 1162) to establish a Deficit Reduction Trust Fund and provide for the

downward adjustment of discretionary

spending limits in appropriation bills.

The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr.

GOODLATTE, by unanimous consent,

designated Mr. QUINN as Chairman of

the Committee of the Whole.

The Acting Chairman, Mr. RIGGS,

assumed the Chair; and after some

time spent therein,

T114.11 RECORDED VOTE

A recorded vote by electronic device

was ordered in the Committee of the

Whole on the following amendment

submitted by Mr. FROST to the

amendment submitted by Mr. GOSS:

Amendment submitted by Mr.

FROST:

Amend the instruction relating to page 7,

line 14, to read as follows:

Page 7, beginning on line 14, strike ‘‘after

the date this bill was engrossed by the House

of Representatives and’’.

Amendment submitted by Mr. GOSS:

Page 2, line 6, strike ‘‘ACCOUNT’’ and insert ‘‘LEDGER’’.

Page 2, line 7, strike ‘‘ESTABLISHMENT OF

ACCOUNT’’ and insert ‘‘LEDGER’’.

Page 2, line 10, strike ‘‘ACCOUNT’’ and insert ‘‘LEDGER’’.

Page 2, line 11, strike ‘‘ESTABLISHMENT OF

ACCOUNT’’ and insert ‘‘LEDGER’’.

Page 2, lines 11 and 12, strike ‘‘There’’ and

all that follows through ‘‘Account,’’ on line

13, and insert the following: ‘‘The Director of

the Congressional Budget Office (hereinafter

in this section referred to as the ‘Director’)

shall maintain a ledger to be known as the

‘Deficit Reduction Lock-box Ledger’.’’.

Page 2, line 14, strike ‘‘Account’’ and insert

‘‘Ledger’’ and strike ‘‘subaccounts’’ and insert ‘‘entries’’.

Page 2, line 16, strike ‘‘subaccount’’ and insert ‘‘entry’’ and strike ‘‘entries’’ and insert

‘‘parts’’.

Page 3, strike lines 1 through 3 and insert

the following:

‘‘(b) COMPONENTS OF LEDGER.—Each component in an entry shall consist only of

amounts credited to it under subsection (c).

No entry of a negative amount shall be

made.

Page 3, line 4, strike ‘‘ACCOUNT’’ and insert

‘‘LEDGER’’.

Page 3, lines 5 and 6, strike ‘‘of the Congressional Budget Office (hereinafter in this

section referred to as the ‘Director’)’’.

Page 3, line 9, strike ‘‘subaccount’’ and insert ‘‘entry’’.

Page 4, line 2, strike the comma and insert

a period and strike lines 3 and 4.

Page 4, before line 5, add the following new

paragraph:

‘‘(3) CALCULATION OF LOCK-BOX SAVINGS IN

SENATE.—For purposes of calculating under

this section the net amounts of reductions in

new budget authority and in outlays resulting from amendments agreed to by the Senate on an appropriation bill, the amendments reported to the Senate by its Committee on Appropriations shall be considered

to be part of the original text of the bill.

Page 4, between lines 13 and 14, strike ‘‘account’’ and insert ‘‘ledger’’.

Page 5, lines 9 and 10, strike ‘‘, as calculated by the Director of the Congressional

Budget Office, and’’ and insert a period, and

on line 11 strike ‘‘the’’ and insert ‘‘The’’.

Page 5, line 19, strike ‘‘Director of the Congressional Budget Office’’ and insert ‘‘chairman of the Committee on Appropriations of

each House’’.

Page 6, line 3, strike ‘‘ACCOUNT’’ and insert ‘‘LEDGER’’.

Page 6, line 7, strike ‘‘account’’ and insert

‘‘ledger’’, and on line 8, strike ‘‘subaccount’’

and insert ‘‘entry’’.

Page 6, strike line 9 and all that follows

through page 7, line 7, and insert the following new section:

SEC. 6. DOWNWARD ADJUSTMENT OF DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS.

The discretionary spending limits for new

budget authority and outlays for any fiscal

year set forth in section 601(a)(2) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as adjusted in

strict conformance with section 251 of the

Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit

Control Act of 1985, shall be reduced by the

amounts set forth in the final regular appropriation bill for that fiscal year or joint resolution making continuing appropriations

through the end of that fiscal year. Those

amounts shall be the sums of the Joint

House-Senate Lock-box Balances for that fiscal year, as calculated under section 602(a)(5)

of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. That

bill or joint resolution shall contain the following statement of law: ‘‘As required by

section 6 of the Deficit Reduction Lock-box

Act of 1995, for fiscal year [insert appropriate

fiscal year], the adjusted discretionary

spending limit for new budget authority

shall be reduced by $ [insert appropriate

amount of reduction] and the adjusted discretionary limit for outlays shall be reduced

by $ [insert appropriate amount of reduction].’’ Notwithstanding section 904(c) of the

Congressional Budget Act of 1974, section 306

of that Act as it applies to this statement

shall be waived. This adjustment shall be reflected in reports under sections 254(g) and

254(h) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.

Page 7, lines 14 and 15, strike ‘‘the date

this bill was engrossed by the House of Representatives’’ and insert ‘‘August 4, 1995’’.

Page 8, lines 5 and 6, strike ‘‘the date this

bill was engrossed by the House of Representatives’’ and insert ‘‘August 4, 1995’’.

It was decided in the Yeas ....... 204 ! negative ....................... Nays ...... 221

T114.12 [Roll No. 656]

AYES—204

Ackerman

Allard

Andrews

Baesler

Baker (CA)

Baldacci

Barcia

Barrett (WI)

Becerra

Bentsen

Bevill

Bishop

Bonior

Borski

Boucher

Brewster

Browder

Brown (CA)

Brown (FL)

Brown (OH)

Bryant (TX)

Cardin

Chabot

Chapman

Christensen

Clay

Clayton

Clement

Clyburn

Coburn

Coleman

Collins (IL)

Collins (MI)

Condit

Conyers

Cooley

Costello

Coyne

Cramer

Cremeans

Danner

de la Garza

Deal

DeFazio

DeLauro

Dellums

Deutsch

Dingell

Doggett

Dooley

Doyle

Duncan

Durbin

Edwards

Ehrlich

Engel

Ensign

Eshoo

Evans

Fattah

Fazio

Fields (LA)

Filner

Flake

Foglietta

Foley

Forbes

Ford

Frost

Furse

Gejdenson

Gephardt

Geren

Gibbons

Gonzalez

Gordon

Green

Gutierrez

Hall (OH)

Hamilton

Harman

Hastings (FL)

Hayes

Hefley

Hefner

Hilleary

Hilliard

Hinchey

Holden

Horn

Inglis

Jackson-Lee

Jacobs

Jefferson

Johnson (SD)

Johnson, E. B.

Johnston

Kanjorski

Kaptur

Kennedy (MA)

Kennedy (RI)

Kennelly

Kildee

Kleczka

Klug

LaHood

Lantos

Levin

Lewis (GA)

Lincoln

Lipinski

LoBiondo

Lofgren

Lowey

Luther

Maloney

Manton

Manzullo

Markey

Martinez

Mascara

Matsui

McCarthy

McDermott

McHale

McKinney

McNulty

Meehan

Meek

Menendez

Mfume

Miller (CA)

Mineta

Minge

Montgomery

Moran

Neal

Obey

Olver

Ortiz

Orton

Owens

Pallone

Pastor

Payne (NJ)

Payne (VA)

Peterson (FL)

Peterson (MN)

Pickett

Pomeroy

Poshard

Ramstad

Rangel

Reed

Richardson

Rivers

Roemer

Rose

Roybal-Allard

Royce

Rush

Sanders

Sanford

Sawyer

Scarborough

Schroeder

Schumer

Scott

Serrano

Shadegg

Skaggs

Skelton

Slaughter

Smith (MI)

Smith (WA)

Souder

Stark

Stenholm

Stokes

Studds

Stupak

Talent

Tanner

Tauzin

Taylor (MS)

Taylor (NC)

Tejeda

Thompson

Thurman

Torres

Torricelli

Towns

Velazquez

Vento

Visclosky

Ward

Waters

Watt (NC)

Weller

Williams

Wise

Wyden

Wynn

Zimmer