Whittaker

Wylie Young (AK) Young (FL)

ANSWERED “PRESENT”—2

Wright

NOT VOTING-1

Smith (NJ)

Weldon

Tauke

Wolf

¶ 1.8 The roll having been completed, the Clerk announced that the tellers had reached an agreement that the total number of votes cast were 425 of which number Mr. JIM WRIGHT received 253; Mr. ROBERT H. MICHEL received 170. Mr. JIM WRIGHT of Texas, having received 253 votes, being the largest number cast for any Memberelect and a majority of the whole number of votes cast, was declared by the Clerk to have been duly elected Speaker of the House of Representatives for the 101st Congress.

The Clerk announced the appointment of Mr. MICHEL, Mr. FOLEY, Mr. CHENEY, Mr. COELHO, Mr. GRAY, Mr. LEWIS of California, Mr. BROOKS, and Mr. ARCHER to escort the Speaker to the Chair.

The SPEAKER was escorted to the Chair by said committee and, following an introduction by Mr. MICHEL, addressed the House as follows:

"Thank you for that, my colleagues. Thank you for your friendship. Thank you, BOB MICHEL, for the graciousness of that presentation, for your words, always incisive, always insightful, often inspiring.

"I hope you will not mind or take exception if I disagree on an occasion such as this with your quoting of Fisher Ames, who said that the House was composed of sober, solid folk but few geniuses.

"I thought a moment ago, when they conducted the rollcall just ended, that I could discern 425 sober, solid folk of whom I was just absolutely certain that 253 were sheer geniuses.

"I had another definition of the House that was uttered on one occasion by former Speaker Henry Clay. I was about to use that quote today, but the last time I used it CLAUDE PEPPER rose and said, 'Now, Mr. Speaker, I knew Henry Clay; I served with Henry Clay; Henry Clay was a friend of mine; and with all respect, Mr. Speaker, you're no Henry Clay.'.

"This is truly an historic moment. Two hundred years ago, in 1789, the first Congress met in New York to face the daunting challenge of beginning to build a nation under the revolutionary new concept of representative self-government. On the opening of this 101st Congress, we can reflect that their audacious undertaking became a beacon for people throughout the world who also yearned to breathe free.

"In 1789 ours was the only constitutional democracy on Earth. Today there are 60 of us, and the tide of his

tory is running in our favor. After 70 years of Marxist trial and error, the verdict is clear. The Communist ideology and the totalitarian regimes installed to enforce it have failed. We 'see instead the emergence of democratic movements throughout the Earth in some of the most unexpected places-in Asia and in Eastern Europe. Even in the Soviet Union itself and in Mainland China, the irresistible clamor for a more personal freedom is making itself felt in profound ways.

"We may be present at the end of one era and at the beginning of another.

"These past 40 years have been dominated by a titantic military and political competition between the two superpowers, and that bipolar world is giving way to a new reality in which the competition-every bit as fateful and intense-is increasingly economic rather than military and in which there are not two but three emerging aggregations of power-one is a rapidly developing Asia, another in an ever more integrated Europe, and the third here in the Western Hemisphere.

"Just as the Members of the First Congress faced a new world of challenges and uncertainties, so do we. The House of Representatives, both then and now, has been the most sensitive barometer of the public need and the most malleable instrument of the public will. It is closer to the people than any other instrumentality of Government, and that is the way it was intended.

"The House did not exactly hit the ground running those 200 years ago. It took nine meetings over over a 29-day period just to obtain a quorum. But once established, the House in that First Congress initiated significant legislation dealing with internal development, foreign trade, roads, rivers, domestic industry, and the world at large. Its Members had a hand in writing the most important declaration of individual political rights in human history-the Bill of Rights. This was the people's House, and that is what it has been ever since.

"BOB MICHEL, a moment ago, quoted Fisher Ames as saying that it consisted of sober, solid folk but few geniuses. That was at least more charitable than the definition given by the French aristocrat, Alexis de Tocqueville, who in 1831 wrote of the 'vulgarity and poverty of talent' that he saw in the House of Representatives. De 'Tocqueville wrote that the 'eye frequently does not discover a man of celebrity within its walls. Its Members are,' he said, 'almost all obscure individuals whose names present no associations to the mind. They are mostly village lawyers, men in trade, or even persons belonging to the lower classes of society.'.

"And if, as we look about this Chamber today, we think anything basic has changed in that perception, it would be not because the House has changed but because of the dramatic and force

ful changes that have taken place in these 200 years in this society itself, of which we are a mirror and an accurate reflection. Contrary to certain misconceptions, this supposedly staid institution of static membership actually is the scene of continual change and constant turnover.

"A majority of the Members here in this Chamber today were not even here at the beginning of this decade. Only about one-fifth of our membership has served for more than 15 years. So, in this, as in our essential character, this House reflects the Nation, ever changing, ever moving and growing, struggling, often uncomfortably and sometimes awkwardly, to accommodate itself to the tidal onrush of events and to try to have a hand in directing those events. Let us resolve, as we begin this 101st Congress, that we shall be equal to that challenge and worthy of that opportunity.

"In 17 days GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH will be inaugurated as the 41st President of the United States. I know that I speak for all of us, Democrats and Republicans alike, in wishing for him success in his mighty endeavors.

"He undertakes what has been called a splendid misery, the most awesome responsibility on Earth. There can be no partisanship among us in wishing for GEORGE BUSH success and happiness and health at his hearthside. We wish for him the vision to see the right, the courage to stand for the right and the ability to achieve it, the understanding and cooperation of his fellow creatures and the finest blessings of all that come only from God. These things we wish to our Presidentelect, GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH.

"In a nation where free men and women think for themselves unanimity is hardly ever possible. It may not even be desirable, but, when we let the larger things that unite us transcend the lesser concerns that divide us, we can achieve the essential unity which is necessary in dealing with other lands on this planet Earth. And so today I pledge to President BUSH the earnest and unstinting cooperation of the leadership of this House in seeking true bipartisanship in every area of our Nation's foreign policy.

"Let us honestly and gratefully acknowledge the leadership of the Reagan administration in improving relations with the Soviet Union, helping to abate the crisis in the Persian Gulf, and in encouraging the growth and sustenance of political freedom in countries throughout the world. We owe to this administration our thanks and the thanks of the Nation for those achievements.

"Because President-elect BUSH has served in this House I am encouraged that he will exhibit an appreciation for the constitutional responsibilities of the Congress and that he will seek avenues of cooperation between our executive and legislative branches.

"And, just as there is need for cooperation and help between branches of our Government, there also is need for

greater consultation and cooperation between the two political parties in the House of Representatives. The minority, as the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. MICHEL] has said, does have a point of view and a constructive role to play in the legislative process. I am eager to encourage that role. The gentleman from Illinois [Mr. MICHEL] spoke of a table as the symbol of our general equality among one another, equal access to expression and to participation. Let me add that I hope it will be a roundtable, without head, without foot, and, if there are those of you here who, like I, are of a large family which occasionally had family reunions, let me express the hope that there will not be any second table. We will all eat at the first table together. "Certainly we will not be able to agree on everything, but let us emphasize those broad goals on which we do agree and work together to achieve them.

"Our Nation struggles to overcome three deficits, the budget deficit, the trade deficit, and the social deficit caused by the widening gap between the rich and poor and the growing inaccessibility of such necessary fundamentals as housing, higher education, and health care. We cannot expect to vanquish all those evils entirely in the 101st Congress, but, if we have the will, we can make significant progress against all three deficts.

"Both political parties are publicly committed to doing so. Neither party has an exclusive franchise upon the wish to make our country better and more humane, and, by working together, we can help our new President fulfill his beautiful promise of a kinder, gentler America.

"We in the House leadership are eager to help him attain the goals he has expressed: wider access for all Americans to education, to child care, to affordable housing and to a cleaner environment. Today we offer to our new President and to our old friend, Jack Kemp, in his new Cabinet role, the sincere cooperation of the House leadership in reviving the vitality of our decaying inner cities through the creative dynamic of enterprise zones.

"Working together we can remove the scourge of drugs from our streets and from our schools. We made significant progress on that bipartisan goal. Let us work together now for full funding so that we make that pledge a reality.

"Working together we can pass a clean air bill this year. Let us make that one of our objectives.

"By working together we can clean up the murkey areas of campaign financing, broaden the basis of small individual contributions and reduce the influence of special interests in our electoral process. This deserves our joint commitment, which I now invite.

"As my colleagues know, to profess love for democracy, but disdain for the political process, is to pretend to honor the product while despising the process that creates it. Politics is just

as necessary to the functioning of our free society as water is to the flow of a river. It does not have to be filthy and corrupted, and neither does the river. We have the wisdom, if we have the will, to keep them both clean.

"As well, we have the responsibility, I believe, to make certain that every citizen's vote counts equally in our Presidential elections. We can help to insure that by a uniform poll closing law, such as the one that the House passed in the last Congress on which I now invite and ask cooperation of the Senate.

"There is hardly a limit to what we can achieve if, in truth, we can work together. By working together we can steadily reduce and eventually eliminate the annual budget deficits that threaten our economic future. We must and we shall.

"But Democrats and Republicans made contributions last year to landmark trade legislation. Let us not abandon that effort until America attains the objective of a revived industrial base, fed by enhanced productivity and renewed competitiveness. There is more work to be done and together we can do it.

"We can even lift the standards of our own institutional self-expectations.

"To this end, Republican leader BOB MICHEL and I have agreed that we will appoint within the next few days a bipartisan task force to review the current standards of official conduct for Members, last revised 12 years ago, and to recommend such improvements and updating as seem warranted under current conditions.

"This is going to be a very, very busy and productive year for the 101st Congress. I am determined that so far as the Speaker can influence the schedule, we shall perform our work on time. Just as we did last year, the House will pass all 13 of our regular appropriation bills before we leave for the August recess.

"Now, in order to make that possible, we intend to pass the budget resolution by April 15, as the law commands, and for that to happen the authorizing committees must submit a summary of their plans for new authorizations before the end of February. To facilitate this timetable, we need to receive the budget recommendations from the new administration not later than February 20, if at all possible.

"In view of these time constraints and the size and scope of the tasks that confront us, I am today asking all the House committees to make every effort to complete all of their organizational work by the end of January, and we will try to accommodate that schedule on the House floor.

"Today I shall take the oath of office for the 18th time as a Member of this House. Some of you will be taking it for the first time.

"In 1941 when Sam Rayburn was sworn in for his second term as Speaker, he said, this:

"The House of Representatives has been my life and my love for more than a quarter of a century. I love its traditions. I love its precedents. I love its dignity. I glory in the power of the House of Representatives.'

"He said:

'As your Speaker and presiding officer, it shall be my highest hope and unswerving aim to preserve, protect and defend the rights, prerogatives, and the power of the House of Representatives.'

"As I look around our Chamber today and see the new Members, their families and special friends who have come from far to be here, I rejoice in the sense of commitement that pervades this occasion. However long each of us has been here or will be here, there can be no higher calling in earthly labor than to participate in glorifying and sustaining the longest running democracy that has ever endured to serve and bless mankind in the history of the human race.".

¶ 1.9 OATH OF OFFICE-SPEAKER

At the request of the Speaker the oath of office was then administered to him by Mr. WHITTEN, dean of the House.

That Robert V. Rota, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, be, and he is hereby, chosen Postmaster of the House of Representatives; and

That Reverend James David Ford, of the Commonwealth of Virginia, be, and he is hereby, chosen Chaplain of the House of Representatives.

When said resolution was considered.

Mr. LEWIS of California demanded that the resolution be divided for a separate vote on the nominee for Chaplain of the House.

The resolution was divided.

The Reverend James David Ford of the Commonwealth of Virginia, was elected Chaplain of the House of Representatives.

Mr. LEWIS of California then submitted the following amendment to the remainder of the resolution:

That Walter P. Kennedy, of the State of New Jersey, be, and he is hereby, chosen Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives;

That William R. Pitts, Jr., of the Commonwealth of Virginia, be, and he is hereby, chosen Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives;

That Ronald W. Lasch, of the Commonwealth of Virginia, be, and he is hereby, chosen Postmaster of the House of Representatives.

The amendment was not agreed to. The question being put, viva voce, Will the House agree to the remainder of said resolution?

The SPEAKER announced that the yeas had it.

So the remainder of said resolution was agreed to.

Whereupon, Donnald K. Anderson, Clerk; Jack Russ, Sergeant at Arms; James T. Molloy, Doorkeeper; Robert V. Rota, Postmaster; and the Reverend James David Ford, Chaplain; presented themselves at the bar of the House and took the oath of office prescribed by law.

11.14 NOTIFICATION OF THE SENATE OF ORGANIZATION OF THE HOUSE

Mr. COELHO submitted the following privileged resolution, which was considered and agreed to (H. Res. 2):

Resolved, That the Senate be informed that a quorum of the House of Representatives has assembled; that Jim Wright, a Representative from the State of Texas, has been elected Speaker; and Donnald K. Anderson, a citizen of the State of California, has been elected Clerk of the House of Representatives of the One Hundred First Congress.

11.15 COMMITTEE TO NOTIFY THE

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF THE ASSEMBLY OF THE CONGRESS Mr. COELHO submitted the following privileged resolution, which was considered and agreed to (H. Res. 3):

Resolved, That a committee of two Members be appointed by the Speaker on the part of the House of Representatives to join with a committee on the part of the Senate to notify the President of the United States that a quorum of each House has assembled and Congress is ready to receive any communication that he may be pleased to make. The SPEAKER, pursuant to the foregoing resolution, announced the

11.18 RULES OF THE HOUSE

Mr. COELHO submitted the following resolution (H. Res. 5):

Resolved, That the Rules of the House of Representatives of the One Hundredth Congress, including all applicable provisions of law and concurrent resolutions adopted pursuant thereto which constituted the Rules of the House at the end of the One Hundredth Congress, are hereby adopted as the Rules of the One Hundred First Congress, with the following amendments:

(1) In rule I, amend clause 5(b)(1) by striking the "and" after "reports;" and by striking the period and adding at the end thereof the following: "; and (F) the question of agreeing to motions to instruct conferees as provided in clause 1(c) of rule XXVIII: Provided, however, That said question shall not be put if the conference report on that measure has been filed in the House.".

(2) In rule I, amend clause 9(b)(1) by striking the last sentence and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "He shall provide for the distribution of such broadcasts and recordings thereof to news media, the storage of audio and video recordings of the proceedings, and the closed captioning of the proceedings for hearing-impaired individuals.".

(3) In rule I, add at the end the following new clause:

"(10) There is established in the House of Representatives an office to be known as the Office of the Historian of the House of Representatives.".

(4) In rule X, amend clause 1(e) by inserting the following before the last sentence of paragraph (1): "Previous service on the Committee before the One Hundred First Congress shall be disregarded, for the purposes of this prohibition during the One Hundred First Congress, for the ranking minority member of the Committee (who is not the Member designated as the Member from the leadership of the minority party). A minority Member having served on the committee for three Congresses and having served as the ranking minority member in the last such Congress shall be eligible for re-election to the committee as ranking minority Member for one additional Congress.".

(5) In rule XI, amend clause 2(e) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:

"(3) Each committee shall include in its rules standards for availability of records of the committee delivered to the Archivist of the United States under rule XXXVI. Such standards shall specify procedures for orders of the committee under clause 3(b)(3) and clause 4(b) of rule XXXVI, including a requirement that nonavailability of a record for a period longer than the period otherwise applicable under that rule shall be approved by vote of the committee.".

(6) In rule XI, amend clause 2(i) by— (a) inserting "(1)" after “(i)”;

(b) inserting "the Committee on House Administration," after "Budget,";

immediately

(c) striking "paragraph" and inserting "subparagraph" in lieu thereof;

(d) inserting at the end the following new subparagraph:

"(2) No committee of the House may sit during a joint session of the House and Senate or during a recess when a joint meeting of the House and Senate is in progress."; and

(e) amending the heading above clause 2(i) to read: "Prohibition against committee meetings during five-minute rule and during joint sessions and joint meetings".

(7) In rule XI, amend clause 4(a) in the matter relating to the Committee on House Administration by inserting after "contingent fund of the House" the following: ", and on all matters relating to preservation and availability of noncurrent records of the House under rule XXXVI;".

(8) In rule XI, amend clause 6(a)(5) to read as follows:

"(5) The foregoing provisions of this paragraph do not apply to the Committee on Appropriations and to the Committee on the Budget and the provisions of subparagraphs (3) (B) and (C) do not apply to the Committee on Rules.".

(9) In rule XI, amend clause 6(c) to read as follows:

"(c) Each employee on the professional, clerical and investigating staff of each standing committee shall be entitled to pay at a single gross per annum rate, to be fixed by the chairman, which does not exceed the maximum rate of pay, as in effect from time to time, under applicable provisions of law.". (10) In rule XIV, amend the second sentence of clause 1 to read as follows: "Debate may include references to actions taken by the Senate or by committees thereof which are a matter of public record, references to the pendency or sponsorship in the Senate of bills, resolutions, and amendments, factual descriptions relating to Senate action or inaction concerning a measure then under debate in the House, and quotations from Senate proceedings on a measure then under debate in the House and which are relevant to the making of legislative history establishing the meaning of that measure, but may not include characterizations of Senate action or inaction, other references to individual Members of the Senate, or other quotations from Senate proceedings.". (11) In rule XV, amend the last sentence of clause 5 to read as follows: "The Speaker may, in his discretion, announce after a rollcall vote has been ordered on an amendment reported from the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, that he may reduce to not less than five minutes the period of time in which a rollcall vote, if ordered, will be taken by electronic device on on any other subsequent amendment to that bill or resolution reported from the Committee of the Whole. In like manner, the Speaker may, in his discretion, announce after a rollcall vote has been

ordered on a motion to recommit a bill, resolution or conference report thereon, that he may reduce to not less than five minutes the period of time in which a rollcall vote, if ordered, will be taken by electronic device on the question of passage or adoption, as the case may be, on such bill, resolution or conference report thereon if the question on final passage or adoption follows without intervening business the vote on the question of recommital.".

(12) In rule XXVIII, amend clause 1 by(a) adding the following new paragraph after paragraph (a):

"(b) The time allotted for debate on any motion to instruct House conferees shall be equally divided between the majority and minority parties, except that if the proponent of the motion and the Member from the other party are both supporters of the motion, one-third of such debate time shall be allotted to a Member who is opposed to said motion.";

(b) redesignating paragraphs (b) and (c) as paragraphs (c) and (d), respectively; and (c) adding immediately prior to the semicolon in paragraph (c) (as so redesignated) the following: "(but only on the day after the calendar day on which the Member making the motion announces to the House his intention to do so and the form of the motion)".

(13) In rule XXXVI, strike it in its entirety and insert in lieu thereof the following: "RULE XXXVI.

"PRESERVATION AND AVAILABILITY OF
NONCURRENT RECORDS OF THE HOUSE.

"1. (a) At the end of each Congress, the chairman of each committee of the House shall transfer to the Clerk any noncurrent records of such committee, including the subcommittees thereof.

"(b) At the end of each Congress, each officer of the House elected pursuant to rule II shall transfer to the Clerk any noncurrent records made or acquired in the course of the duties of such officer.

"2. The Clerk shall deliver the records transferred pursuant to clause 1 of this rule, together with any other noncurrent records of the House, to the Archivist of the United States for preservation at the National Archives and Records Administration. Records so delivered are the permanent property of the House and remain subject to this rule and the orders of the House.

"3. (a) Subject to paragraph (b) of this clause, clause 4 of this rule, and orders of the House, the Clerk shall authorize the Archivist of the United States to make available for public use the records delivered to the Archivist under clause 2 of this rule.

"(b)(1) Any record that the House or a committee of the House (or a subcommittee thereof) makes available for public use before such record is delivered to the Archivist under clause 2 of this rule shall be made available immediately.

"(2) Any investigative record that contains personal data relating to a specific living individual (the disclosure of which would be an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy), any administrative record with respect to personnel, and any record with respect to a hearing closed pursuant to clause 2(g)(2) of rule XI shall be available if such record has been in existence for 50 years.

"(3) Any record for which a time, schedule, or condition for availability is specified by order of the House shall be made available in accordance with that order. Except as otherwise provided by order of the House, any record of a committee for which a time, schedule, or condition for availability is specified by order of the committee (entered during the Congress in which the record is made or acquired by the commit

tee) shall be made available in accordance with the order of the committee.

"(4) Any record (other than a record referred to in subparagraph (1), (2), or (3) of this paragraph) shall be made available if such record has been in existence for 30 years.

"4. (a) A record shall not be made available for public use under clause 3 of this rule if the Clerk determines that such availability would be detrimental to the public interest or inconsistent with the rights and privileges of the House. The Clerk shall notify in writing the chairman and the ranking minority party member of the ComImittee on House Administration of any determination under the preceding sentence.

"(b) A determination of the Clerk under paragraph (a) is subject to later order of the House and, in the case of a record of a committee, later order of the committee.

"5. (a) This rule does not supersede rule XLVIII or rule L and does not authorize the public disclosure of any record if such disclosure is prohibited by law or executive order of the President.

"(b) The Committee on House Administration may prescribe guidelines and regulations governing the applicability and implementation of this rule.

"(c) A committee may withdraw from the National Archives and Records Administration any record of the committee delivered to the Archivist of the United States under this rule. Such withdrawal shall be on a temporary basis and for official use of the committee.

"6. As used in this rule the term 'record' means any official, permanent record of the House, including

"(a) with respect to a committee of the House, an official, permanent record of the committee (including any record of a legislative, oversight, or other activity of such committee or subcommittee thereof); and

"(b) with respect to an officer of the House elected pursuant to rule II, an official, permanent record made or acquired in the course of the duties of such officer. Such term does not include a record of an individual Member of the House.".

(14) In rule XLVIII, amend clause 1(a) by striking "seventeen" and inserting in lieu thereof "nineteen".

When said resolution was considered.

After debate,

Mr. FROST, moved the previous question on the resolution to its adoption or rejection.

The question being put, viva voce, will the House now order the previous question?

The SPEAKER announced that the yeas had it.

Mr. EDWARDS of Oklahoma demanded that the vote be taken by the yeas and nays, which demand was supported by one-fifth of the Members present, so the yeas and nays were ordered.

The vote was taken by electronic device.

It was decided in the Yeas ........ 231 affirmative........ Nays....... 162

Yates Yatron

Holloway

Hopkins

James

So the previous question was ordered.

Mr. EDWARDS of Oklahoma moved to commit the resolution to a select committee to be comprised of the Majority Leader and the Minority Leader with instructions to report back the same to the House forthwith with the following amendment:

At the end of the resolution, add the following new paragraph:

RESTRICTIVE RULE LIMITATION "(15) In Rule XI, clause 4 is amended by adding the following new paragraph:

"(e) It shall not be in order to consider any resolution reported from the Committee on Rules providing for the consideration of any bill or resolution otherwise subject to amendment under House rules if that resolution limits the right of Members to offer germane amendments to such bill or resolution unless the chairman of the Committee on Rules has orally announced in the House, at least four legislative days prior to the scheduled consideration of such matter by the Committee on Rules, that less than an open amendment process might be recommended by the Committee for the consideration of such bill or resolution.".

By unanimous consent, the previous question was ordered on the motion to commit with instructions.

The question being put, viva voce, Will the House commit said resolution with instructions?

The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr. KILDEE, announced the nays had it. Mr. EDWARDS of Oklahoma demanded that the vote be taken by the yeas and nays, which demand was supported by one-fifth of the Members present, so the yeas and nays were ordered.

The vote was taken by electronic device.

Gallo

Gingrich Goss Gradison Grandy

Carr Chapman Clarke

Parris

Pashayan Paxon Petri

Dicks

Flake

Flippo

Foley

McGrath

Machtley

Shumway Shuster

Skeen

Slaughter (VA)

(OR) Smith, Robert

(NH)

Snowe Solomon

Spence Stangeland

Meyers Michel Miller (OH)

Miller (WA)

Gillmor

Gilman

McMillan (NC)

Morrison (WA) Walker

Walsh

Weber

Weldon

Whittaker

Wolf Wylie