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statewide one-call notification systems to

protect underground facilities from being

damaged by any excavations, and for other

purposes; to the Committee on Commerce.

By Mr. HOKE:

H. Con. Res. 107. Concurrent resolution

urging a home field advantage in the major

league baseball league championship series;

to the Committee on Commerce.

T128.7 ADDITIONAL SPONSORS

Under clause 4 of the rule XXII, sponsors were added to public bills and resolutions as follows:

H.R. 540: Mr. HOUGHTON.

H.R. 864: Mr. BARR.

H.R. 1575: Mr. COX, Mr. DAVIS, Mr. DUNCAN,

Mrs. KELLY, Mr. LINDER, Mr. WELLER, and

Mr. BARR.

H.R. 1686: Mr. COX and Mr. CHRISTENSEN.

H.R. 1715: Mr. HEINEMAN.

H.R. 1733: Ms. FURSE, Mr. SERRANO, and

Mr. TATE.

H.R. 1893: Mr. SCHUMER and Mrs.

KENNELLY.

H.R. 2003: Ms. WOOLSEY and Mr. HINCHEY.

H.R. 2446: Mr. HORN and Mr. POSHARD.

H.R. 2463: Ms. MCKINNEY.

H. Res. 30: Mr. BRYANT of Tennessee and

Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts.

H. Res. 220: Mr. FOGLIETTA, Mrs. MALONEY,

Ms. SLAUGHTER, and Mr. OWENS.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1995 (129)

T129.1 DESIGNATION OF SPEAKER PRO

TEMPORE

The House was called to order at 12:30

p.m., by the SPEAKER pro tempore,

Mr. CLINGER, laid before the House

the following communication:

WASHINGTON, DC,

October 17, 1995.

I hereby designate the Honorable WILLIAM

F. CLINGER, Jr., to act as Speaker pro tempore on this day.

NEWT GINGRICH,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Whereupon, pursuant to the order of

the House of Friday, May 12, 1995,

Members were recognized for ‘‘morning

hour’’ debates.

T129.2 RECESS—1:15 P.M.

The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr.

CLINGER, pursuant to clause 12 of rule

I, declared the House in recess at 1

o’clock and 15 minutes p.m., until 2

o’clock p.m.

T129.3 AFTER RECESS—2:00 P.M.

The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr.

RIGGS, called the House to order.

T129.4 APPROVAL OF THE JOURNAL

The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr.

RIGGS, announced he had examined

and approved the Journal of the proceedings of Friday, October 13, 1995.

Mr. LINDER, pursuant to clause 1,

rule I, objected to the Chair’s approval

of the Journal.

The question being put, viva voce,

Will the House agree to the Chair’s

approval of said Journal?

The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr.

RIGGS, announced that the yeas had

it.

Mr. LINDER objected to the vote on

the ground that a quorum was not

present and not voting.

The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr.

RIGGS, pursuant to clause 5, rule I, announced that the vote would be postponed until later today.

The point of no quorum was considered as withdrawn.

T129.5 COMMUNICATIONS

Executive and other communications, pursuant to clause 2, rule XXIV,

were referred as follows:

1531. A letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting the annual horse protection enforcement report for fiscal year

1994, pursuant to 15 U.S.C. 1830; to the Committee on Commerce.

1532. A letter from the Administrator, General Services Administration, transmitting a

report of a building project survey for Oklahoma City, OK, pursuant to 40 U.S.C. 606(a);

to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

T129.6 MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE

A message from the Senate by Mr.

Lundregan, one of its clerks, announced that the Senate had passed

with an amendment a bill of the House

of the following title:

H.R. 2076. An Act making appropriations

for the Departments of Commerce, Justice,

and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30,

1996, and for other purposes.

The message also announced that the

Senate insists upon its amendment to

the bill (H.R. 2076) ‘‘An Act making appropriations for the Departments of

Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the

fiscal year ending September 30, 1996,

and for other purposes’’, requests a

conference with the House on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses thereon, and appoints Mr. GREGG, Mr. HATFIELD, Mr. STEVENS, Mr. DOMENICI, Mr.

MCCONNELL, Mr. JEFFORDS, Mr. COCHRAN, Mr. HOLLINGS, Mr. BYRD, Mr.

INOUYE, Mr. BUMPERS, Mr. LAUTENBERG, and Mr. KERREY to be the conferees on the part of the Senate.

The message also announced that the

Senate had passed a bill of the following title, in which the concurrence

of the House is requested:

S. 1267. An Act to amend the Congressional

Award Act to revise and extend authorities

for the Congressional Award Board.

The message also announced that the

Senate disagrees to the amendments of

the House to the bill (S. 641) ‘‘An Act

to reauthorize the Ryan White CARE

Act of 1990, and for other purposes’’, requests a conference with the House on

the disagreeing votes of the two Houses

thereon, and appoints Mrs. KASSEBAUM,

Mr. JEFFORDS, Mr. FRIST, Mr. KENNEDY, and Mr. DODD, to be the conferees on the part of the Senate.

The message also announced that the

Senate disagrees to the amendments of

the House to the bill (S. 652) ‘‘An Act

to provide for a pro-competitive, deregulatory national policy framework

designed to accelerate rapidly private

sector deployment of advanced telecommunications and information technologies and services to all Americans

by opening all telecommunications

markets to competition, and for other

purposes’’, agrees to a conference asked

by the House on the disagreeing votes

of the two Houses thereon, and appoints Mr. PRESSLER, Mr. STEVENS, Mr.

MCCAIN, Mr. BURNS, Mr. GORTON, Mr.

LOTT, Mr. HOLLINGS, Mr. INOUYE, Mr.

FORD, Mr. EXON, and Mr. ROCKEFELLER,

to be the conferees on the part of the

Senate.

T129.7 APPOINTMENT OF ADDITIONAL

CONFEREE—S. 395

The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr.

RIGGS, by unanimous consent and pursuant to clause 6(f) of rule X, announced the appointment of Mr. OBERSTAR as an additional conferee on the

part of the House to the conference

with the Senate on the disagreeing

votes of the two Houses on amendment

number 4 of the House to the bill of the

Senate (S. 395) to authorize and direct

the Secretary of Energy to sell the

Alaska Power Administration and to

authorize the export of Alaska North

Slope crude oil, and for other purposes;

vice Mr. MINETA, resigned.

Ordered, That the Clerk notify the

Senate of the foregoing appointment.

T129.8 EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS

Mr. GOODLING, by unanimous consent, submitted the following concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 108):

Resolved by the House of Representatives (the

Senate concurring), That, in the enrollment 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 Clerk of the House of Representatives shall, in section 5 of the bill, strike

‘‘Nothing’’ and all that follows through the

end of such section and insert the following:

‘‘Nothing in this Act is intended to affect the

ability of the Department of Labor to issue

advisory opinions, information letters, technical releases, prohibited transaction exemptions, or other pronouncements interpreting

and applying the fiduciary responsibility

rules of the Employee Retirement Income

Security Act of 1974 in relation to particular

factual situations, or exempting specific

transactions from the prohibited transaction

provisions of such Act (pursuant to sections

406 and 408 of such Act (29 U.S.C. 1106,

1108)).’’.

When said concurrent resolution was

considered and agreed to.

A motion to reconsider the vote

whereby said concurrent resolution

was agreed to was, by unanimous consent, laid on the table.

Ordered, That the Clerk request the

concurrence of the Senate in said concurrent resolution.

T129.9 MIGRANT WORKER PROTECTION

Mr. GOODLING moved to suspend

the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 1715)

respecting the relationship between

workers’ compensation benefits and

benefits available under the Migrant

and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act; as amended.

The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr.

RIGGS, recognized Mr. CLINGER and

Mr. OWENS, each for 20 minutes.

After debate,

The question being put, viva voce,