D 612 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — DAILY DIGEST May 16, 1995

House of Representatives

Chamber Action

Bills Introduced: Thirteen public bills, H.R.

1641–1653; and one resolution, H. Res. 150 were

introduced. Page H5071

Reports Filed: Reports were filed as follows: H. Res. 147, providing for the consideration of S. 4, to grant the power to the President to reduce

budget authority (H. Rept. 104–121); H. Res. 148, providing for the consideration of S.

219, to improve the economy and efficiency of Federal Government Operations by establishing a moratorium on regulatory rulemaking action (H. Rept.

104–122);

H.R. 1175, to amend Public Law 89–454 to provide for the reauthorization of appropriations,

amended (H. Rept. 104–123); Conference report on H.R. 1158, making emergency supplemental appropriations for additional disaster assistance and making rescissions for the fiscal

year ending September 30, 1995 (H. Rept.

104–124); and

H. Res. 149, providing for the consideration of H.

Con. Res. 67 setting forth the Congressional budget

for the United States Government for the fiscal years

1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002 (H.

Rept. 104–125). Page H5071

Speaker Pro Tempore: Read a letter from the

Speaker wherein he designates Representative

Radanovich as Speaker pro tempore for today.

 Page H4959

Recess: House recessed at 9:42 a.m. and reconvened

at 10 a.m. Page H4963

Medicare Trust Funds Report: By a yea-and-nay vote of 247 yeas to 170 nays, Roll No. 330 (twothirds of those present not voting in the affirmative),

the House failed to suspend the rules and pass H.R.

1590, to require the Trustees of the medicare trust

funds to report recommendations on resolving projected financial imbalance in medicare trust funds.

 Pages H4968–74

Committees To Sit: By a yea-and-nay vote of 235

yeas to 181 nays, Roll No. 331, agreed to the

Armey motion that all standing committees and

their subcommittees be permitted to sit today and

the balance of the week during the proceedings of

the House under the 5-minute rule. Pages H4974–77

Clean Water Act Amendments: By a yea-and-nay

vote of 240 yeas to 185 nays, Roll No. 337, the

House passed H.R. 961, to amend the Federal Water

Pollution Control Act. Pages H4977–H5013, H5053–54

Rejected the Bonior motion to recommit the bill

to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure with instructions to report the bill back to the

House adding provisions including standards for the

discharge of industrial pollution into water; additional water pollution and control protections for

public water supplies which are used for drinking;

and a report by the Congressional Budget Office on

the implications of this bill with regards to the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (rejected by a recorded

vote of 169 ayes to 256 noes, Roll No. 336).

 Pages H5011–13

Agreed to the committee amendment in the nature of a substitute. Page H5006

Agreed To:

The Gilchrest amendment that strikes language

prohibiting property from being categorized solely as

a wetland based solely on the fact that migratory

birds use or might use it; Pages H4987–88

The Minge amendment that requires any mitigation of agricultural lands to be developed in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture;

 Pages H4993–94

The Riggs Amendment that adds certain municipal waste water reuse operations to the list of activities which are exempt from permit requirements

under the comprehensive wetlands program;

 Page H4994

The Taylor of Mississippi amendment that requires the Army Corps of Engineers implementing

regulations to include standards and procedures that,

to the maximum extent practicable, require the creation of artificial wetlands and other beneficial uses

of material from navigational dredging;

 Pages H4995–96

The Franks of New Jersey amendment that clarifies that the ocean dumping provisions apply only to

the ocean dumping of dredged material, and not to

the dumping of sewage sludge or other materials;

and Pages H5000–01

The Petri amendment that adds additional provisions regarding coastal nonpoint pollution control.

Earlier, a similar amendment was offered but subsequently withdrawn. Pages H5001–06
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Rejected:

The Boehlert amendment that sought to define

‘‘wetland’’ more broadly as any area that is inundated or saturated by surface water or ground water

at a frequency and duration sufficient to a prevalence

of vegetation adapted to such conditions; require

EPA to initiate a national wetland restoration strategy in cooperation with other Federal agencies, State,

and local governments, and the private sector; direct

EPA to establish a Wetlands Coordinating Committee made up of Federal, State, and local government

officials and associations to integrate conservation efforts among different levels of government and help

develop national wetland strategy and policy implementation and advise EPA and the Army Secretary

in adopting a regulatory program; direct EPA or the

Corps of Engineers, as appropriate, to provide technical assistance and training to State and local governments in the development and implementation of

wetlands protection; authorize $15 million annually

for fiscal year 1996 to 2000 for EPA to establish direct grants to States and tribes for implementation

and development of wetlands strategies, assistance to

regional and local governments to pursue the same

objectives, provide financing of State permits in support of Federal wetlands projects with no State receiving more than $300 of each type of grant nor

more than $500,000 overall and with recipients

sharing at least 25 percent of the costs of projects

undertaken (rejected by a recorded vote of 185 ayes

to 242 noes, Roll No. 332); Pages H4978–87

The Gilchrest amendment that sought to strike

language that establishes a new definition of what

constitutes a wetland as well as its detailed wetlands

classification system (rejected by a recorded vote of

180 ayes to 247 noes, Roll No. 333); Pages H4988–93

The Pallone en bloc amendment that sought to

strike provisions which reassign certain regulatory

authority over ocean dumping and navigational

dredging permits from EPA to the Army Corps of

Engineers; Pages H4994–95

The Frelinghuysen amendment that sought to

allow States that are administering their own federally approved wetlands permit programs as of the

date of enactment to continue administering their

own programs rather than the new program established in the bill (rejected by a recorded vote of 181

ayes to 243 noes, Roll No. 334); and Pages H4996–98

The Wyden amendment that sought to provide

that the Federal Government would not have to pay

compensation for losses in property value caused by

wetlands regulation in cases where failure to enforce

such regulations is likely to reduce the fair market

value of one or more private homes by $10,000 or

more (rejected by a recorded vote of 158 ayes to 270

noes, Roll No. 335). Pages H4998–H5000

The Clerk was authorized to make corrections in

section numbers, punctuation, and cross-references

and to make other technical and conforming

changes. Page H5013

United States Naval Academy: The Speaker appointed Representatives Skeen, Gilchrest, Hoyer, and

Mfume as members of the Board of Visitors to the

United States Naval Academy on the part of the

House. Page H5053

United States Military Academy: The Speaker appointed Representatives Kelly, Taylor of North Caroline, Hefner, and Laughlin as members of the Board

of Visitors to the United States Military Academy on

the part of the House. Page H5053

American Indian and Alaska Native Culture: The

Speaker appointed Representatives Young of Alaska

and Kildee to the Board of Trustees of the Institute

of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and

Arts Development on the part of the House.

 Page H5053

Truman Scholarship Foundation: The Speaker appointed Representatives Emerson and Skelton as

members of the Board of Trustees of the Harry S

Truman Scholarship Foundation on the part of the

House. Page H5053

Amendments Ordered Printed. Amendments ordered printed pursuant to the rule appear on pages

H5072–84.

Quorum Calls—Votes: Three yea-and-nay votes

and five recorded votes developed during the proceedings of the House today and appear on pages

H4974, H4977, H4986–87, H4992–93, H4997–98,

H4999–H5000, H5012–13, and H5013. There were

no quorum calls.

Adjournment: Met at 9 a.m. and adjourned at 9

p.m.

Committee Meetings

FIFRA AMENDMENTS

Committee on Agriculture: Subcommittee on Department Operations, Nutrition, and Foreign Agriculture

held a hearing on H.R. 1627, to amend the Federal

Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. Testimony was heard from Lynn Goldman, Assistant Administrator, Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and

Toxic Substances, EPA; Rebecca Doyle, Director,

Department of Agriculture, State of Illinois; and

public witnesses.