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TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Department of Labor Title II: Department of Health and Human Services Title III: Department of Education Title IV: Related Agencies Title V: General Provisions Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 - Title I: Department of Labor - Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 1997 - Makes appropriations for FY 1997 (including certain transfers of funds) for agencies, programs, and various trust funds, within the Department of Labor. Prescribes uses and limitations on the use of funds under this title. (Sec. 106) Provides that, in the administration of the child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, 16- and 17-year-old individuals who are not apprentices or student-learners shall be permitted to load, but not operate or unload, materials into scrap paper balers or paper box compactors that: (1) meet the current safety standards of the American National Standards Institute; and (2) meet other specified standards regarding on-off switches and employee notification. (Sec. 107) Prohibits the use of funds to enforce and issue fines under a specified Hazardous Occupation Order with respect to incidental and occasional driving by minors under age 18, unless the Secretary of Labor finds that operation of a motor vehicle is the primary duty of the minor's employment. Title II: Department of Health and Human Services - Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 1997 - Makes appropriations for FY 1997 (including certain transfers of funds) for agencies and programs within the Department of Health and Human Services. Prescribes limitations on the use of appropriated funds under this title. (Sec. 211) Prohibits the use of funds by the National Institutes of Health to provide grants or cooperative agreements under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program for research proposals when the median of the evaluation scores for such proposals in the review cycle is higher than the median for investigator-initiated research (RO1) grant proposals. (Sec. 212) Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989, as amended by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, to extend through December 31, 2000, or until the first day of the first quarter on which the Medigrant plan for Michigan is effective, the moratorium on treating Kent and Saginaw Community Hospitals in Michigan as institutions for mental diseases. (Sec. 213) Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide for the relocation of the Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease Center (located in Louisiana) and its patients, in accordance with specified requirements. Amends the Public Health Service Act with respect to such Center. Title III: Department of Education - Department of Education Appropriations Act, 1997 - Makes appropriations for FY 1997 (including certain transfers of funds) for agencies and programs within the Department of Education, subject to certain requirements for and limitations of their use. (Sec. 301) Prohibits the use of appropriated funds to transport teachers or students in order to: (1) overcome racial imbalance in any school or school system; or (2) carry out a racial desegregation plan. (Sec. 303) Prohibits the use of funds to prevent the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer and meditation in the public schools. (Sec. 304) Limits the amount of funds which may be used for specified student aid programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA). Prohibits the Secretary of Education from using HEA funds for subsequent fiscal years for administrative expenses of the William D. Ford Direct Loan Program. Title IV: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY 1997 for the following agencies or programs: (1) Armed Forces Retirement Home; (2) Corporation for National and Community Service (for domestic volunteer service programs); (3) Corporation for Public Broadcasting; (4) Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; (5) Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission; (6) National Commission on Libraries and Information Science; (7) National Council on Disability; (8) National Education Goals Panel; (9) National Labor Relations Board; (10) National Mediation Board; (11) Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission; (12) Physician Payment Review Commission; (13) Prospective Payment Assessment Commission; (14) Social Security Administration, for various trust funds and programs; (15) Railroad Retirement Board; and (16) United States Institute of Peace. Title V: General Provisions - Sets forth provisions and limitations on the use of appropriated funds under this Act. (Sec. 505) Prohibits the use of funds to carry out any program of distributing sterile needles for the hypodermic injection of any illegal drug unless the Secretary of HHS determines that such programs are effective in preventing the spread of HIV and do not encourage the use of illegal drugs. (Sec. 506) Expresses the sense of the Congress that, to the greatest extent practicable, all equipment and products purchased under this Act should be American-made. (Sec. 508) Prohibits the use of funds to perform abortions except to save the life of the mother or where the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest. (Sec. 510) Prohibits use of funds in this Act for the expenses of an electronic benefit transfer (EBT) task force. (Sec. 512) Prohibits use of funds in this Act for: (1) the creation of a human embryo or embryos for research purposes; or (2) research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death greater than that allowed for research on fetuses in utero under certain Federal regulations and the Public Health Service Act. (Sec. 513) Prohibits the National Labor Relations Board from using funds in this Act to assert jurisdiction over any labor dispute which does not involve any class or category of employer over which the Board would assert jurisdiction under the standards prevailing on August 1, 1959, with each financial threshold amount adjusted for inflation in a specified manner. (Sec. 514) Prohibits use of funds in this Act to provide any direct benefit or assistance to any individual in the United States when it is made known to the appropriate Federal official that: (1) the individual is not lawfully within the United States; and (2) the benefit or assistance to be provided is other than emergency medical assistance or a State-provided benefit mandated by the Federal courts.
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Rep. Porter, John Edward [R-IL-10] · R–IL
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Committee on Appropriations. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 589.
Committee on Appropriations. Reported to Senate by Senator Specter with amendments. With written report No. 104-368.
Committee on Appropriations. Reported to Senate by Senator Specter with amendments. With written report No. 104-368.
Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, and Education. Approved for full committee consideration with amendments favorably.
Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
The Clerk was authorized to correct section numbers, punctuation, and cross references, and to make other necessary technical and conforming corrections in the engrossment of H.R. 3755.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 216 - 209 (Roll no. 313). (consideration: 7/11/1996 CR H7366-7374)
House roll call 313 · Individual votesPassed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 216 - 209 (Roll no. 313).(consideration: 7/11/1996 CR H7366-7374)
House roll call 313 · Individual votesOn motion to recommit Failed by voice vote. (consideration: 7/11/1996 CR H7373)
The previous question on the motion to recommit was ordered without objection.
Mr. Obey moved to recommit to Appropriations.
The House adopted the amendments en gross as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 3755.
The Chair announced the unfinished business to be the further consideration of those amendments on which further proceedings were postponed in the following order: Hefley, Sanders, Lowey, Bunning, Hoyer (substitute to Bunning), Istook, Obey (substitute to Istook), and Gutknecht.
On motion to strike the enacting clause Failed by voice vote.
Floor summary: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 5 minutes of debate on the motion.
Mr. Smith (NJ) moved to strike the enacting clause.
At the conclusion of debate the Chair put the question on agreeing to the Gutknecht amendment and announced that, by voice vote, the amendment was not agreed to. Mr. Gutknecht requested a recorded vote and, pending that request, made a point of order that a quorum was not present. Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 472, further proceedings were postponed and the point of no quorum was withdrawn.
Pursuant to an earlier unanimous consent agreement, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Gutknecht amendment.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the earlier unanimous consent agreement, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 5 minutes of debate on the Mica amendment.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the earlier unanimous consent agreement, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 20 minutes of debate on the Campbell amendment.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the earlier unanimous consent agreement, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the McIntosh amendment.
At the conclusion of debate, the Chair put the question on agreeing to the Obey sustitute to the Istook amendment and announced that, by voice vote, the amendment was agreed to. Mr. Istook requested a recorded vote and, pending that request, made a point of order that a quorum was not present. Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 472, further proceedings were postponed and the point of no quorum was withdrawn.
DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole resumed debate.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the previous unanimous consent agreement, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 30 minutes of debate on the Istook amendment.
At the conclusion of debate, the Chair put the question on agreeing to the Hoyer substitute to the Bunning amendment and announced that, by voice vote, the amendment was not agreed to. Mr. Hoyer requested a recorded vote and, pending that request, made a point of order that a quorum was not present. Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 472, further proceedings on the Hoyer substitute and the underlying Bunning amendment were postponed and the point of no quorum was withdrawn.
DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole resumed debate.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the previous unanimous consent agreement, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 20 minutes of debate on the Bunning amendment.
At the conclusion of debate, the Chair put the question on agreeing to the Lowey amendment and announced that, by voice vote, the amendment was not agreed to. Ms. Lowey requested a recorded vote and, pending that request, made a point of order that a quorum was not present. Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 472, further proceedings were postponed and the point of no quorum was withdrawn.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the previous unanimous consent agreement, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 30 minutes of debate on the Lowey amendment.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the previous unanimous consent agreement, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Sanders amendment.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the previous unanimous consent agreement, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Campbell amendment.
At the conclusion of debate, the Chair put the question on agreeing to the Sanders amendment and announced that, by voice vote, the amendment was agreed to. Mr. Porter requested a recorded vote and, pending that request, made a point of order that a quorum was not present. Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 472, further proceedings were postponed and the point of no quorum was withdrawn.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the previous unanimous consent agreement, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Sanders amendment.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the previous unanimous consent agreement, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 5 minutes of debate on the Solomon amendment.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the previous unanimous consent agreement, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 5 minutes of debate on the Solomon amendment.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the previous unanimous consent agreement, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Roemer amendment.
At the conclusion of debate, the Chair put the question on agreeing to the Hefley amendment and announced that, by voice vote, the amendment was agreed to. Mr. Sanders requested a recorded vote and, pending that request, made a point of order that a quorum was not present. Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 472, further proceedings were postponed and the point of no quorum was withdrawn.
CONTINUATION WITH POSTPONED ROLL CALLS - The Chair announced that the unfinished business was the requests for recorded votes on the amendments offered by Mr. Obey and Mrs. Lowey. The question will be put on the amendments in the same order as that in which they were considered.
The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.
Considered as unfinished business.
Hefley amendment (No. 3) for 5 minutes; Lowey (No. 5) for 30 minutes; Gutk necht (No. 23) for 10 minutes; Campbell (unnumbered) for 10 minutes; Bunni ng (unnumbered), and an Hoyer substitutefor 20 minutes; Istook (No. 1) and an Obey substitute for 30 minutes; Sanders (No. 12) for 10 minutes; Sanders (No. 14) for 10 minutes; Solomon (No. 15) for 5 minutes; Solomon (No. 16) for 5 minutes; Campbell (No. 18) for 20 minutes; Roemer (unnumbered) for 10 minutes; Traficant (unnumbered) for 5 minutes; McIntosh (No. 28) for 10 minutes; and either amendent No. 7 or 29 by Mr. Mica for 5 minutes. Agreed to without objection.
ORDER OF PROCEDURE - Mr. Porter asked unanimous consent that further consideration of the bill for amendment in the Committee of the Whole conclude at 11 p.m. tonight; that the bill be considered as read; and that no amendment be in order except for the following amendments, which shall be considered as read, shall not be subject to amendment, except as specified, or to a demand for a division of the question in the House or in the Committee of the Whole, and shall be debatable for the time specified:
Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H.R. 3755 as unfinished business.
At the conclusion of debate on the Lowey amendment the Chair put the question and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mrs. Lowey demanded a recorded vote and the Chair announced that further proceedings would be postponed.
Mr. Porter asked unanimous consent that the time for debate on the Lowey amendment, and all amendments thereto, be limited to 20 minutes. Agreed to without objection.
At the conclusion of debate on the Obey amendment, the Chair put the question and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Obey asked for a recorded vote and the Chair announced that further proceedings would be postponed.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the preceeding unanimous consent agreement, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 80 minutes of debate on the Obey amendment.
Mr. Porter asked unanimous consent that the time for debate on the Obey amendment, and all amendments thereto, be limited to 80 minutes. Agreed to without objection.
The Chair announced the unfinished business to be the further consideration of those amendments on which a request for a recorded vote had been postponed. The amendments would be considered in the following order: the Pelosi amendment (postponed on July 10) and the Lowey amendment.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the preceeding unanimous consent agreement, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 20 minutes of debate on the Kennedy (MA) amendment.
Mr. Porter asked unanimous consent that the time for debate on the Kennedy (MA) amendment, and all amendments thereto, be limited to 20 minutes. Agreed to without objection.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the preceeding unanimous consent agreement, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 20 minutes of debate on the Goodling amendment.
Mr. Porter asked unanimous consent that the time for debate on the Goodling amendment, and all amendments thereto, be limited to 20 minutes. Agreed to without objection.
Mr. Obey asked unanimous consent that Mr. Condit be permitted to offer an amendment out of order. Agreed to without objection.
At the conclusion of debate, the Chair put the question on the Lowey amendment and, by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Ms. Lowey requested a recorded vote and, pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 472, further proceedings were postponed.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the preceeding unanimous consent agreement, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 40 minutes of debate on the Lowey amendment.
Mr. Porter asked unanimous consent that the time for debate on the Lowey amendment, and all amendments thereto, be limited to 40 minutes. Agreed to without objection.
The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.
Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H7280-7366)
Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H.R. 3755 as unfinished business.
On motion that the Committee rise Agreed to by voice vote.
Mr. Porter moved that the Committee rise.
At the conclusion of debate, the Chair put the question on agreeing to the Pelosi amendment and announced that, by voice vote, the amendment was not agreed to. Ms. Pelosi requested a recorded vote and, pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 472, further proceedings were postponed.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the previous unanimous consent agreement, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 30 minutes of debate on the Pelosi amendment.
Mr. Porter asked unanimous consent that the time for debate on the Pelosi amendment, and all amendments thereto, be limited to 30 minutes. Agreed to without objection.
GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole resumed general debate, with approximately one hour and 22 minutes of time remaining.
The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.
Considered as unfinished business.
Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H.R. 3755 as unfinished business.
On motion that the Committee rise Agreed to by voice vote.
Mr. Porter moved that the Committee rise.
GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with two hours of general debate.
The Speaker designated the Honorable Robert S. Walker to act as Chairman of the Committee.
House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 472 and Rule XXIII.
Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 3755 with 2 hours of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be read by paragraph. Bill is open to amendments.
Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 472. (consideration: CR H7215-7243)
Rule H. Res. 472 passed House.
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 472 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 3755 with 2 hours of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be read by paragraph. Bill is open to amendments.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 336.
The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. Rept. 104-659, by Mr. Porter.
The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. Rept. 104-659, by Mr. Porter.
Introduced in House
Ordered to be Reported.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee.
Final Day of Subcommittee Mark-up.
First Day of Subcommittee Mark-up.
First Day of Subcommittee Hearings.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor - Health and Human Services, and Education.
Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
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