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(B) report to the Secretary and the Congress on at least an annual basis assessing

the performance of—

(i) the Department, in improving its management practices of Department laboratories through the reduction or elimination

of unnecessary or counterproductive management burdens;

(ii) the Department laboratories, in reducing costs by a cumulative amount of at least

$1,400,000,000 between fiscal year 1996 and fiscal year 2000 through the elimination of unnecessary or counterproductive administrative practices and procedures; and

(iii) the Department, in meeting the goal

of cutting employment of the Department

laboratories by 15 percent over 5 years, using

fiscal year 1994 personnel figures as the baseline; and

(C) provide recommendations regarding

budget allocation for programs or Department laboratories.

(3) ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS.—The Secretary

may establish additional functions for the

Board, or request additional review, comment, or recommendations from public members of the Board.

(4) FUNCTIONS LIMITATION.—The Federal

Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.), section 17 of the Federal Energy Administration

Act (15 U.S.C. 776), and section 552b of title 5,

United States Code, do not apply to the

Board or its members.

(e) SUNSET.—This section terminates on

September 30, 2005.

Page 3, after the item in the table of contents relating to section 312, insert the following:

Sec. 313. Department of Energy Laboratory

Operations Board.

Amendment submitted by Mr. ROEMER:

Page 104, after line 5, insert the following

new section:

SEC. 313. LABORATORIES EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT.

(a) ELIMINATION OF SELF-REGULATION.—

Notwithstanding any other provision of law,

the Department shall not be the agency of

implementation, with respect to departmental laboratories, other than departmental defense laboratories, of Federal,

State, and local environmental, safety, and

health rules, regulations, orders, and standards.

(b) PERSONNEL REDUCTIONS.—

(1) REQUIREMENTS.—The aggregate number

of individuals employed by all governmentowned, contractor-operated departmental

laboratories, other than departmental defense laboratories, shall be reduced, within 5

years after the date of the enactment of this

Act, by at least one-third from the number

so employed as of such date of enactment. At

least 3 percent of such reduction shall be accomplished within 1 year, at least 6 percent

within 18 months, at least 10 percent within

2 years, and at least 15 percent within 30

months.

(2) OBJECTIVES.—The Secretary shall ensure that the personnel reductions required

by paragraph (1) are made consistent with,

to the extent feasible, the following objectives:

(A) Termination of departmental laboratory research and development facilities

that are not the most advanced and the most

relevant to the programmatic objectives of

the Department, when compared with other

facilities in the United States.

(B) Termination of facilities that provide

research opportunities duplicating those afforded by other facilities in the United

States, or in foreign countries when United

States scientists are provided access to such

facilities to the extent necessary to accomplish the programmatic objectives of the Department.

(C) Relocation and consolidation of departmental laboratory research and development

activities, consistent with the programmatic

objectives of the Department, within laboratories with major facilities or demonstrable

concentrations of expertise appropriate for

performing such research and development

activities.

(D) Reduction of management inefficiencies within the Department and the departmental laboratories.

(E) Reduction of physical infrastructure

needs.

(F) Utilization of other resources for performing Department of Energy funded research and development activities, including

universities, industrial laboratories, and others.

(c) REPORTS TO CONGRESS.—

(1) INITIAL REPORT.—Within 1 year after the

date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall transmit a report to the Congress that—

(A) identifies the extent to which Department and departmental laboratory staffs

have been reduced as a result of the implementation of subsection (a) of this section;

and

(B) explains the extent to which reductions

required by subsection (b)(1) have been made

consistent with the objectives set forth in

subsection (b)(2).

(2) ANNUAL REPORTS.—The Secretary shall

transmit to the Congress, along with each of

the President’s annual budget submissions

occurring—

(A) after the report under paragraph (1) is

transmitted; and

(B) before the full personnel reduction requirement under subsection (b) is accomplished, a report containing the explanation

described in paragraph (1)(B) of this subsection.

(d) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this

section—

(1) the term ‘‘departmental laboratory’’

means a Federal laboratory, or any other

laboratory or facility designated by the Secretary, operated by or on behalf of the Department;

(2) the term ‘‘departmental defense laboratories’’ means the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Los Alamos National

Laboratory, and the Sandia National Laboratories;

(3) the term ‘‘Federal laboratory’’ has the

meaning given the term ‘‘laboratory’’ in section 12(d)(2) of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C.

3710a(d)(2)); and

(4) the term ‘‘programmatic objectives of

the Department’’ means the goals and milestones of the Department, as set forth in departmental strategic planning documents

and the President’s annual budget requests.

Page 3, after the item in the table of contents relating to section 312, insert the following:

‘‘Sec. 313. Laboratories efficiency improvement.’’.

It was decided in the Yeas ....... 147 ! negative ....................... Nays ...... 274

T126.16 [Roll No. 703]

AYES—147

Ackerman

Allard

Armey

Baldacci

Barcia

Becerra

Beilenson

Bentsen

Berman

Bevill

Bishop

Bonior

Borski

Boucher

Browder

Brown (CA)

Brown (FL)

Brown (OH)

Bryant (TX)

Callahan

Clay

Clayton

Clyburn

Coburn

Coleman

Collins (IL)

Collins (MI)

Condit

Conyers

Costello

Coyne

Cramer

Danner

de la Garza

DeFazio

DeLauro

Dellums

Deutsch

Dicks

Dingell

Dixon

Doyle

Durbin

Engel

Ensign

Evans

Everett

Fattah

Fazio

Filner

Flake

Foglietta

Ford

Fox

Franks (NJ)

Frost

Furse

Gejdenson

Gephardt

Gibbons

Gonzalez

Green

Gutierrez

Hancock

Hastings (FL)

Hefner

Hilliard

Hinchey

Horn

Hoyer

Jackson-Lee

Jefferson

Johnson (SD)

Johnson, E. B.

Johnston

Kanjorski

Kennedy (RI)

Kildee

Klink

LaFalce

Lantos

Levin

Lewis (GA)

Lowey

Maloney

Manton

Martinez

Mascara

Matsui

McCarthy

McDermott

McKinney

McNulty

Meek

Mfume

Miller (CA)

Minge

Montgomery

Moran

Nadler

Oberstar

Olver

Ortiz

Owens

Pastor

Payne (NJ)

Payne (VA)

Pelosi

Peterson (FL)

Peterson (MN)

Pomeroy

Poshard

Rahall

Rangel

Richardson

Rivers

Roberts

Rose

Roybal-Allard

Rush

Sabo

Sanders

Sawyer

Schroeder

Schumer

Scott

Serrano

Skaggs

Skelton

Spratt

Stearns

Stokes

Studds

Stump

Thompson

Torres

Towns

Velazquez

Vento

Waters

Watt (NC)

Waxman

Wise

Woolsey

Wyden

Wynn

Yates

NOES—274

Abercrombie

Andrews

Archer

Bachus

Baesler

Baker (CA)

Baker (LA)

Ballenger

Barr

Barrett (NE)

Barrett (WI)

Bartlett

Barton

Bateman

Bereuter

Bilbray

Bilirakis

Bliley

Blute

Boehlert

Boehner

Bonilla

Bono

Brewster

Brownback

Bryant (TN)

Bunn

Bunning

Burr

Burton

Buyer

Calvert

Camp

Canady

Cardin

Castle

Chabot

Chambliss

Chapman

Chenoweth

Christensen

Chrysler

Clement

Clinger

Coble

Collins (GA)

Combest

Cooley

Cox

Crane

Crapo

Cremeans

Cubin

Cunningham

Davis

Deal

DeLay

Diaz-Balart

Dickey

Doggett

Dooley

Doolittle

Dreier

Duncan

Dunn

Edwards

Ehlers

Ehrlich

Emerson

English

Eshoo

Ewing

Farr

Fawell

Fields (TX)

Flanagan

Foley

Forbes

Fowler

Frank (MA)

Franks (CT)

Frelinghuysen

Frisa

Funderburk

Gallegly

Ganske

Gekas

Geren

Gilchrest

Gillmor

Gilman

Goodlatte

Goodling

Gordon

Goss

Graham

Greenwood

Gunderson

Gutknecht

Hall (OH)

Hall (TX)

Hamilton

Hansen

Harman

Hastert

Hastings (WA)

Hayes

Hayworth

Hefley

Heineman

Herger

Hilleary

Hobson

Hoekstra

Hoke

Holden

Hostettler

Houghton

Hunter

Hutchinson

Hyde

Inglis

Istook

Jacobs

Johnson (CT)

Johnson, Sam

Jones

Kaptur

Kasich

Kelly

Kennedy (MA)

Kim

King

Kingston

Kleczka

Klug

Knollenberg

Kolbe

LaHood

Largent

Latham

LaTourette

Laughlin

Lazio

Leach

Lewis (CA)

Lewis (KY)

Lightfoot

Lincoln

Linder

Lipinski

Livingston

LoBiondo

Lofgren

Longley

Lucas

Luther

Manzullo

Markey

Martini

McCollum

McCrery

McDade

McHale

McHugh

McInnis

McIntosh

McKeon

Meehan

Menendez

Metcalf

Meyers

Mica

Miller (FL)

Mink

Molinari

Mollohan

Moorhead

Morella

Murtha

Myers

Myrick

Neal

Nethercutt

Neumann

Ney

Norwood

Nussle

Obey
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

1503

1995 T126.21

Orton

Oxley

Packard

Pallone

Parker

Paxon

Petri

Pickett

Pombo

Porter

Portman

Pryce

Quillen

Quinn

Radanovich

Ramstad

Reed

Regula

Riggs

Roemer

Rogers

Rohrabacher

Ros-Lehtinen

Roth

Roukema

Royce

Salmon

Sanford

Saxton

Scarborough

Schaefer

Seastrand

Sensenbrenner

Shadegg

Shaw

Shays

Shuster

Sisisky

Skeen

Slaughter

Smith (MI)

Smith (NJ)

Smith (TX)

Smith (WA)

Solomon

Souder

Spence

Stark

Stenholm

Stockman

Stupak

Talent

Tanner

Tate

Tauzin

Taylor (MS)

Taylor (NC)

Thomas

Thornberry

Thornton

Thurman

Tiahrt

Torkildsen

Torricelli

Traficant

Upton

Visclosky

Vucanovich

Waldholtz

Walker

Walsh

Wamp

Ward

Watts (OK)

Weldon (FL)

Weldon (PA)

Weller

White

Whitfield

Wicker

Williams

Wolf

Young (AK)

Young (FL)

Zimmer

NOT VOTING—11

Bass

Dornan

Fields (LA)

Kennelly

Moakley

Schiff

Tejeda

Tucker

Volkmer

Wilson

Zeliff

So the substitute amendment was

not agreed to.

T126.17 RECORDED VOTE

A recorded vote by electronic device

was ordered in the Committee of the

Whole on the foregoing amendment

submitted by Mr. ROEMER:

It was decided in the Yeas ....... 135 ! negative ....................... Nays ...... 286

T126.18 [Roll No. 704]

AYES—135

Allard

Andrews

Ballenger

Barcia

Barr

Barrett (WI)

Barton

Brownback

Burr

Burton

Callahan

Camp

Cardin

Castle

Chenoweth

Christensen

Clayton

Coble

Coburn

Collins (GA)

Combest

Condit

Conyers

Cooley

Costello

Cox

Coyne

Cremeans

Cubin

Danner

Deal

Doggett

Doyle

Ensign

Everett

Flanagan

Foley

Fox

Frank (MA)

Franks (NJ)

Funderburk

Geren

Gilchrest

Goss

Greenwood

Hamilton

Hancock

Harman

Hayworth

Heineman

Hobson

Hoekstra

Hoke

Holden

Hostettler

Inglis

Istook

Jacobs

Johnson (SD)

Johnson, Sam

Kanjorski

Kaptur

Kasich

Kennedy (RI)

Kleczka

Klink

Klug

LaHood

Largent

Latham

Laughlin

Lincoln

Linder

LoBiondo

Longley

Lowey

Luther

Mascara

McHale

McIntosh

Meehan

Metcalf

Miller (FL)

Minge

Mink

Montgomery

Myers

Myrick

Neal

Neumann

Ney

Norwood

Obey

Owens

Oxley

Parker

Peterson (MN)

Petri

Pomeroy

Portman

Poshard

Pryce

Radanovich

Ramstad

Reed

Roemer

Rohrabacher

Roth

Royce

Sabo

Salmon

Sanford

Scarborough

Schroeder

Shadegg

Shays

Smith (MI)

Smith (WA)

Souder

Stark

Stearns

Stenholm

Stockman

Stump

Stupak

Talent

Tauzin

Taylor (MS)

Thornberry

Upton

Vento

Visclosky

Vucanovich

Waters

Watts (OK)

NOES—286

Abercrombie

Ackerman

Archer

Armey

Bachus

Baesler

Baker (CA)

Baker (LA)

Baldacci

Barrett (NE)

Bartlett

Bateman

Becerra

Beilenson

Bentsen

Bereuter

Berman

Bevill

Bilbray

Bilirakis

Bishop

Bliley

Blute

Boehlert

Boehner

Bonilla

Bonior

Bono

Borski

Boucher

Brewster

Browder

Brown (CA)

Brown (FL)

Brown (OH)

Bryant (TN)

Bryant (TX)

Bunn

Bunning

Buyer

Calvert

Canady

Chabot

Chambliss

Chapman

Chrysler

Clay

Clement

Clinger

Clyburn

Coleman

Collins (IL)

Collins (MI)

Cramer

Crane

Crapo

Cunningham

Davis

de la Garza

DeFazio

DeLauro

DeLay

Dellums

Deutsch

Diaz-Balart

Dickey

Dicks

Dingell

Dixon

Dooley

Doolittle

Dreier

Duncan

Dunn

Durbin

Edwards

Ehlers

Ehrlich

Emerson

Engel

English

Eshoo

Evans

Ewing

Farr

Fattah

Fawell

Fazio

Fields (TX)

Filner

Flake

Foglietta

Forbes

Ford

Fowler

Franks (CT)

Frelinghuysen

Frisa

Frost

Furse

Gallegly

Ganske

Gejdenson

Gekas

Gephardt

Gibbons

Gillmor

Gilman

Gonzalez

Goodlatte

Goodling

Gordon

Graham

Green

Gunderson

Gutierrez

Gutknecht

Hall (OH)

Hall (TX)

Hansen

Hastert

Hastings (FL)

Hastings (WA)

Hayes

Hefley

Hefner

Herger

Hilleary

Hilliard

Hinchey

Horn

Houghton

Hoyer

Hunter

Hutchinson

Hyde

Jackson-Lee

Jefferson

Johnson (CT)

Johnson, E. B.

Johnston

Jones

Kelly

Kennedy (MA)

Kildee

Kim

King

Kingston

Knollenberg

Kolbe

LaFalce

Lantos

LaTourette

Lazio

Leach

Levin

Lewis (CA)

Lewis (GA)

Lewis (KY)

Lightfoot

Lipinski

Livingston

Lofgren

Lucas

Maloney

Manton

Manzullo

Markey

Martinez

Martini

Matsui

McCarthy

McCollum

McCrery

McDade

McDermott

McHugh

McInnis

McKeon

McKinney

McNulty

Meek

Menendez

Meyers

Mfume

Mica

Miller (CA)

Molinari

Mollohan

Moorhead

Moran

Morella

Murtha

Nadler

Nethercutt

Nussle

Oberstar

Olver

Ortiz

Orton

Packard

Pallone

Pastor

Paxon

Payne (NJ)

Payne (VA)

Pelosi

Peterson (FL)

Pickett

Pombo

Porter

Quillen

Quinn

Rahall

Rangel

Regula

Richardson

Riggs

Rivers

Roberts

Rogers

Ros-Lehtinen

Rose

Roukema

Roybal-Allard

Rush

Sanders

Sawyer

Saxton

Schaefer

Schumer

Scott

Seastrand

Sensenbrenner

Serrano

Shaw

Shuster

Sisisky

Skaggs

Skeen

Skelton

Slaughter

Smith (NJ)

Smith (TX)

Solomon

Spence

Spratt

Stokes

Studds

Tanner

Tate

Taylor (NC)

Thomas

Thompson

Thornton

Thurman

Tiahrt

Torkildsen

Torres

Torricelli

Towns

Traficant

Velazquez

Waldholtz

Walker

Walsh

Wamp

Ward

Watt (NC)

Waxman

Weldon (FL)

Weldon (PA)

Weller

White

Whitfield

Wicker

Williams

Wise

Wolf

Woolsey

Wyden

Wynn

Yates

Young (AK)

Young (FL)

Zimmer

NOT VOTING—11

Bass

Dornan

Fields (LA)

Kennelly

Moakley

Schiff

Tejeda

Tucker

Volkmer

Wilson

Zeliff

So the amendment was not agreed to.

The Committee rose informally to receive a message from the President.

The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr.

BONILLA, assumed the Chair.

T126.19 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

A message in writing from the President of the United States was communicated to the House by Mr. Edwin

Thomas, one of his secretaries.

The Committee resumed its sitting;

and after some further time spent

therein,

T126.20 CALL IN COMMITTEE

Mr. KINGSTON, Chairman, announced that the Committee, having

had under consideration said bill, finding itself without a quorum, directed

the Members to record their presence

by electronic device, and the followingnamed Members responded—

T126.21 [Roll No. 705]

Abercrombie

Ackerman

Allard

Andrews

Archer

Armey

Bachus

Baesler

Baker (CA)

Baker (LA)

Baldacci

Ballenger

Barcia

Barr

Barrett (NE)

Barrett (WI)

Bartlett

Barton

Bateman

Becerra

Beilenson

Bentsen

Bereuter

Berman

Bevill

Bilbray

Bilirakis

Bishop

Bliley

Blute

Boehlert

Boehner

Bonilla

Bonior

Bono

Borski

Boucher

Brewster

Browder

Brown (CA)

Brown (FL)

Brown (OH)

Brownback

Bryant (TN)

Bryant (TX)

Bunn

Bunning

Burr

Burton

Buyer

Callahan

Calvert

Camp

Canady

Cardin

Castle

Chabot

Chambliss

Chenoweth

Christensen

Chrysler

Clayton

Clement

Clinger

Clyburn

Coble

Coburn

Coleman

Collins (GA)

Collins (IL)

Collins (MI)

Combest

Conyers

Cooley

Costello

Cox

Coyne

Cramer

Crane

Crapo

Cremeans

Cubin

Cunningham

Danner

Davis

de la Garza

Deal

DeFazio

DeLauro

DeLay

Dellums

Deutsch

Diaz-Balart

Dickey

Dicks

Dingell

Dixon

Doggett

Doolittle

Doyle

Dreier

Duncan

Dunn

Durbin

Edwards

Ehlers

Ehrlich

Emerson

Engel

English

Ensign

Eshoo

Evans

Everett

Ewing

Farr

Fattah

Fawell

Fields (TX)

Filner

Flake

Flanagan

Foglietta

Foley

Forbes

Ford

Fowler

Fox

Franks (CT)

Franks (NJ)

Frelinghuysen

Frisa

Funderburk

Furse

Gallegly

Ganske

Gejdenson

Geren

Gilchrest

Gillmor

Gilman

Gonzalez

Goodlatte

Goodling

Gordon

Goss

Graham

Green

Greenwood

Gunderson

Gutierrez

Gutknecht

Hall (OH)

Hall (TX)

Hamilton

Hancock

Hansen

Harman

Hastert

Hastings (FL)

Hastings (WA)

Hayes

Hayworth

Hefley

Heineman

Herger

Hilleary

Hilliard

Hinchey

Hobson

Hoekstra

Hoke

Holden

Horn

Hostettler

Houghton

Hoyer

Hutchinson

Hyde

Inglis

Jackson-Lee

Jacobs

Jefferson

Johnson (CT)

Johnson (SD)

Johnson, E. B.