JOURNAL OF THE

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suant to clause 1(b) of rule XXIII, declare the

House resolved into the Committee of the

Whole House on the State of the Union for

consideration of the bill (H.R. 1594) to place

restrictions on the promotion by the Department of Labor and other Federal agencies

and instrumentalities of economically targeted investments in connection with employee benefit plans. The first reading of the

bill shall be dispensed with. General debate

shall be confined to the bill and shall not exceed two hours equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on Economic

and Educational Opportunities. 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 Economic and Educational

Opportunities now printed in the bill. Each

section of the committee amendment in the

nature of a substitute 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,

On motion of Mr. LINDER, 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.

T113.16 ORDER OF BUSINESS—

CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 1594

On motion of Mr. FAWELL, by unanimous consent,

Ordered, That during the consideration of the bill (H.R. 1594) to place restrictions on the promotion by the Department of Labor and other Federal

agencies and instrumentalities of economically targeted investments in connection with employee benefit plans,

pursuant to House Resolution 215, the

chairman of the Committe of the

Whole may postpone until a time during further consideration in the Committee of the Whole a request for a recorded vote on any amendment, and

that the chairman of the Committee of

the Whole may reduce to not less than

five minutes the time for voting by

electronic device on any postponed

question that immediately follows another vote by electronic device without

intervening business, provided that the

time for voting by electronic device on

the first of any series of questions shall

not be less than 15 minutes.

T113.17 EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS

The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr.

SHAYS, pursuant to House Resolution

215 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.

1594) to place restrictions on the promotion by the Department of Labor

and other Federal agencies and instrumentalities of economically targeted

investments in connection with employee benefit plans.

The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr.

SHAYS, by unanimous consent, designated Mr. EMERSON as Chairman of

the Committee of the Whole; and after

some time spent therein,

T113.18 RECORDED VOTE

A recorded vote by electronic device

was ordered in the Committee of the

Whole on the following amendment

submitted by Mr. GREEN:

Insert after section 4 the following new

section (redesignating section 5 as section 6):

SEC. 5. PROTECTION OF DOMESTIC INVESTMENTS.

Nothing in this Act shall be construed as

prohibiting the investment by an employee

benefit plan (within the meaning of paragraph (3) of section 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) in domestic investments, as distinguished from foreign investments.

It was decided in the Yeas ....... 192 ! negative ....................... Nays ...... 217

T113.19 [Roll No. 649]

AYES—192

Abercrombie

Andrews

Baesler

Baldacci

Barcia

Barrett (WI)

Becerra

Beilenson

Bentsen

Berman

Bevill

Bishop

Bonior

Borski

Boucher

Brewster

Browder

Brown (CA)

Brown (FL)

Brown (OH)

Bryant (TX)

Cardin

Chapman

Clay

Clayton

Clement

Clyburn

Coleman

Collins (IL)

Collins (MI)

Condit

Conyers

Costello

Coyne

Cramer

Danner

DeFazio

DeLauro

Dellums

Deutsch

Diaz-Balart

Dicks

Dingell

Dixon

Doggett

Dooley

Doyle

Duncan

Edwards

Engel

Ensign

Eshoo

Evans

Farr

Fattah

Fazio

Filner

Flake

Foglietta

Forbes

Fox

Frank (MA)

Frost

Gejdenson

Gephardt

Geren

Gibbons

Gonzalez

Gordon

Green

Gutierrez

Hamilton

Harman

Hastings (FL)

Hayes

Hefner

Hilliard

Hinchey

Holden

Hoyer

Jackson-Lee

Jacobs

Johnson (SD)

Johnson, E. B.

Johnston

Kanjorski

Kaptur

Kennedy (MA)

Kennedy (RI)

Kennelly

Kildee

Kingston

Kleczka

Klink

LaFalce

Levin

Lewis (GA)

Lincoln

Lofgren

Lowey

Luther

Maloney

Manton

Markey

Martinez

Mascara

Matsui

McCarthy

McHale

McKinney

McNulty

Meehan

Meek

Mfume

Miller (CA)

Mineta

Minge

Mink

Montgomery

Murtha

Nadler

Neal

Neumann

Ney

Oberstar

Obey

Olver

Ortiz

Orton

Owens

Pallone

Pastor

Payne (NJ)

Payne (VA)

Pelosi

Peterson (FL)

Peterson (MN)

Pickett

Pomeroy

Poshard

Rahall

Rangel

Reed

Richardson

Riggs

Rivers

Roemer

Ros-Lehtinen

Rose

Roybal-Allard

Sabo

Sanders

Sawyer

Schroeder

Schumer

Scott

Serrano

Skaggs

Skelton

Slaughter

Smith (NJ)

Spratt

Stark

Stenholm

Stokes

Studds

Stupak

Tanner

Tauzin

Taylor (MS)

Tejeda

Thompson

Thornton

Thurman

Torres

Towns

Traficant

Velazquez

Vento

Visclosky

Volkmer

Ward

Waters

Watt (NC)

Waxman

Weldon (PA)

Wilson

Wise

Woolsey

Wyden

Wynn

Yates

NOES—217

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

Callahan

Calvert

Camp

Canady

Castle

Chabot

Chambliss

Chenoweth

Christensen

Chrysler

Clinger

Coble

Collins (GA)

Combest

Cooley

Cox

Crane

Crapo

Cremeans

Cubin

Cunningham

Davis

Deal

DeLay

Dickey

Doolittle

Dornan

Dreier

Dunn

Ehlers

Ehrlich

Emerson

English

Everett

Ewing

Fawell

Fields (TX)

Flanagan

Foley

Fowler

Franks (CT)

Franks (NJ)

Frelinghuysen

Frisa

Funderburk

Gallegly

Ganske

Gekas

Gilchrest

Gillmor

Gilman

Goodlatte

Goodling

Goss

Graham

Greenwood

Gunderson

Gutknecht

Hall (TX)

Hancock

Hansen

Hastert

Hastings (WA)

Hayworth

Hefley

Heineman

Herger

Hilleary

Hobson

Hoekstra

Hoke

Horn

Hostettler

Houghton

Hunter

Hutchinson

Hyde

Inglis

Istook

Johnson (CT)

Johnson, Sam

Jones

Kasich

Kelly

Kim

King

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

Moorhead

Moran

Morella

Myers

Myrick

Nethercutt

Norwood

Nussle

Oxley

Packard

Paxon

Petri

Pombo

Porter

Portman

Pryce

Quillen

Quinn

Radanovich

Ramstad

Regula

Roberts

Rogers

Rohrabacher

Roth

Roukema

Royce

Salmon

Sanford

Saxton

Scarborough

Schaefer

Schiff

Seastrand

Sensenbrenner

Shadegg

Shaw

Shays

Shuster

Skeen

Smith (MI)

Smith (TX)

Smith (WA)

Solomon

Souder

Spence

Stearns

Stockman

Stump

Talent

Tate

Taylor (NC)

Thomas

Thornberry

Tiahrt

Torkildsen

Upton

Vucanovich

Walker

Walsh

Wamp

Watts (OK)

Weldon (FL)

Weller

White

Whitfield

Wicker

Young (AK)

Young (FL)

Zeliff

Zimmer

NOT VOTING—25

Ackerman

Buyer

Coburn

de la Garza

Durbin

Fields (LA)

Ford

Furse

Hall (OH)

Jefferson

Lantos

Lipinski

McDermott

Menendez

Moakley

Mollohan

Parker

Reynolds

Rush

Sisisky

Torricelli

Tucker

Waldholtz

Williams

Wolf

So the amendment was not agreed to.

After some further time,