[Journal of the House of Representatives, 1992]
[Friday, September 25, 1992 (113), Para 113.9 VA-HUD Appropriations]
[Pages 2129-2131]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

Para. 113.9  va-hud appropriations

  Mr. TRAXLER, pursuant to House Resolution 579, called up the following 
conference report (Rept. No. 102-902):

       The Committee of Conference on the disagreeing votes of the 
     two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 
     5679) ``making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans 
     Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry 
     independent agencies, commissions, corporations, and offices 
     for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1993, and for other 
     purposes,'' having met, after full and free conference, have 
     agreed to recommend and do recommend to their respective 
     Houses as follows:
       That the Senate recede from its amendments numbered 3, 4, 
     6, 8, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 38, 39, 44, 
     45, 46, 50, 52, 53, 54, 56, 57, 58, 68, 76, 77, 81, 82, 84, 
     95, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 109, 110, 112, 114, 121, 123, 
     124, 125, 126, 128, 129, 130, 150, 152, 153, 154, 155, 157, 
     158, 162, 167, 174, 177, 181, 187, 188, 206, 207, 208, 209, 
     210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 223, 228, 229, 234, 
     238, 239, 240, 251, 255, 257, 258, 261, 271, 276, 285, 288, 
     294, 297, and 302.
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendments of the Senate numbered 2, 26, 30, 31, 32, 43, 61, 
     62, 63, 65, 70, 74, 75, 85, 92, 93, 94, 97, 104, 105, 106, 
     108, 111, 115, 116, 118, 119, 135, 136, 137, 138, 140, 141, 
     142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 149, 165, 169, 173, 179, 184, 
     185, 186, 198, 204, 224, 225, 226, 248, 263, 265, 270, 275, 
     279, 283, 289, 291, 292, 296, 298, 299, 300, and 301, and 
     agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 11:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 11, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $14,642,723,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 12:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 12, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the matter proposed by said amendment, insert: 
     (of which $405,700,000 is available as a result of the cost 
     savings provision of the last proviso under this heading); 
     and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 25:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 25, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the matter proposed by said amendment, insert: : 
     Provided further, That notwithstanding the provisions of 38 
     U.S.C. 3732(c)(1)(C) and (c)(11) or any other law, with 
     respect to any loan guaranteed for any purpose specified in 
     38 U.S.C. 3710 which was closed before October 1, 1993, the 
     term ``net value'' for purposes of paragraphs (4) through 
     (10) of 38 U.S.C. 3732 shall mean ``the amount equal to (i) 
     the fair market value of the property, minus (ii) the total 
     of the amounts which the Secretary estimates the Secretary 
     would incur (if the Secretary were to acquire and dispose of 
     the property) for property taxes, assessments, liens, 
     property maintenance, property improvement, administration, 
     resale (including losses sustained on the resale of the 
     property), and other costs resulting from the acquisition and 
     disposition of the property, excluding any amount attributed 
     to the cost of the Government of borrowing funds''; and the 
     Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 33:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 33, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $811,919,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 34:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 34, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $70,668,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 35:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 35, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $31,182,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 37:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 37, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $492,674,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 55:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 55, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $8,936,731,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 59:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 59, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $9,223,965,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 60:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 60, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $400,000,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 66:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate num- 

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     bered 66, and agree to the same with an amendment, as 
     follows:
       Restore the matter stricken by said amendment, amended as 
     follows:
       In lieu of the first sum named in said amendment, insert: 
     $9,223,965,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 67:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 67, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       Restore the matter stricken by said amendment, amended to 
     read as follows: : Provided further, That of the 
     $9,223,965,000 total under this head, $600,750,000 shall be 
     for the section 8 existing housing certificate program (42 
     U.S.C. 1437f); and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 69:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 69, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $9,223,965,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 71:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 71, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $9,223,965,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 72:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 72, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $581,750,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 73:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 73, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       Restore the matter stricken by said amendment, amended as 
     follows:
       In lieu of the sum named in said amendment, insert: 
     $1,350,000,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 80:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 80, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment, insert: 
     $9,223,965,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 83:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 83, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the matter proposed by said amendment, insert 
     the following: : Provided further, That, notwithstanding the 
     language preceding the first proviso of this paragraph, 
     $260,000,000 shall be used for special projects in accordance 
     with the terms and conditions specified for such grants in 
     the committee of conference report and statement of the 
     managers (H. Rept. No. 102-902) accompanying H.R. 5679: 
     Provided further, That of the $150,000,000 earmarked in 
     Public Law 102-139 for special purpose grants (105 Stat. 736, 
     746), $850,000 made available to the City of Lawrence, 
     Massachusetts to purchase, remodel and equip a vacant Jewish 
     Community Center building for use as a Girls' Club facility 
     shall instead be made available to the Lawrence Boys' Club to 
     remodel any building for use as a Girls' Club facility: 
     Provided further, That of the $150,000,000 earmarked in 
     Public Law 102-139 for special purpose grants (105 Stat. 736, 
     746), $290,000 made available to Marquette, Michigan for 
     communications and other equipment shall instead be made 
     available for training and equipment to the Upper Peninsula 
     Emergency Medical Services Corporation in Marquette County, 
     Michigan for use throughout the Upper Peninsula of Michigan; 
     and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 86:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 86, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment, insert: 
     $9,223,965,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 117:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 117, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment, insert: 
     $50,000,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 122:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 122, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $40,000,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 132:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 132, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $15,000,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 133:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 133, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $10,600,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 134:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 134, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $892,000,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 148:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 148, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $46,160,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 166:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 166, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $2,500,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 168:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 168, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $73,000,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 172:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 172, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $8,480,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 175:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 175, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $1,318,965,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 176:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 176, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       Restore the matter stricken by said amendment, amended as 
     follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $274,000,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 183:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 183, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $42,799,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 193:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 193, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $20,000,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 195:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 195, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $1,573,528,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 199:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 199, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $260,000,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 201:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 201, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $7,200,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 202:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 202, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $2,550,000,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 203:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 203, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $1,927,500,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 205:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 205, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       Restore the matter stricken by said amendment, amended as 
     follows:
       In lieu of ``$63,500,000'' named in said amendment, insert: 
     $50,000,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 250:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 250, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $129,000,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 253:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate num- 

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     bered 253, and agree to the same with an amendment, as 
     follows:
       In lieu of the matter stricken and inserted by said 
     amendment, insert: 22; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 262:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 262, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       Restore the matter stricken by said amendment, amended as 
     follows:
       In lieu of ``$1,300,000'' named in said amendment, insert: 
     $900,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 264:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 264, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $7,089,300,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 273:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 273, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $1,615,014,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 274:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 274, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $15,062,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 284:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 284, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $158,000,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 286:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 286, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $487,500,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 290:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 290, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert: 
     $3,688,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       Amendment numbered 293:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate numbered 293, and agree to the same 
     with an amendment, as follows:
       Restore the matter stricken by said amendment, amended as 
     follows:
       In lieu of ``$10,000,000'' named in said amendment, insert: 
     $5,000,000; and the Senate agree to the same.
       The committee of conference report in disagreement 
     amendments numbered 1, 5, 7, 9, 10, 15, 27, 28, 29, 36, 40, 
     41, 42, 47, 48, 49, 51, 64, 78, 79, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 96, 
     98, 107, 113, 120, 127, 131, 139, 151, 156, 159, 160, 161, 
     163, 164, 170, 171, 178, 180, 182, 189, 190, 191, 192, 194, 
     196, 197, 200, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 227, 230, 231, 232, 
     233, 235, 236, 237, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 249, 
     252, 254, 256, 259, 260, 267, 268, 269, 272, 277, 278, 280, 
     281, 282, 287, and 303.
     Bob Traxler,
     Louis Stokes,
     Alan B. Mollohan,
     Jim Chapman,
     Chester G. Atkins,
     Marcy Kaptur,
     Jamie L. Whitten,
     Bill Green,
     Lawrence Coughlin,
     Bill Lowery,
                                Managers on the Part of the House.

     Barbara A. Mikulski,
     Patrick Leahy,
     J. Bennett Johnston,
     Frank R. Lautenberg,
     Wyche Fowler, Jr.,
     J. Robert Kerrey,
     Robert C. Byrd,
     Jake Garn,
     Alfonse D'Amato,
     Don Nickles,
     Phil Gramm,
     Kit Bond,
     Mark O. Hatfield,
                               Managers on the Part of the Senate.

  When said conference report was considered.
  After debate,
  On motion of Mr. TRAXLER, the previous question was ordered on the 
conference report to its adoption or rejection.
  Mr. McDADE moved to recommit the conference report on H.R. 5679 to the 
committee of conference.
  By unanimous consent, the previous question was ordered on the motion 
to recommit.
  The question being put, viva voce,
  Will the House recommit said conference report?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr. McDERMOTT, announced that the nays had 
it.
  So the motion to recommit was not agreed to.
  The question being put, viva voce,
  Will the House agree to said conference report?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr. McDERMOTT, announced that the yeas had 
it.
  Mr. GREEN objected to the vote on the ground that a quorum was not 
present and not voting.
  A quorum not being present,
  The roll was called under clause 4, rule XV, and the call was taken by 
electronic device.

Yeas

286

When there appeared

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Nays

97