FAST TRACK VOTE COUNT Opponents Creep Closer To Majority

CongressDaily

National Journal Group Inc. Friday, Nov. 7, 1997

CongressDaily is maintaining a running tally of the House votes on Fast Track. The complete list, which is updated twice daily, is available below.

This survey of members' positions was last updated at 3 p.m. Eastern Time, Nov. 7, 1997.

Democrats Voting Yes: Bentsen; Berman; Berry; Blumenauer; Clement; Davis, Jim; Dicks; Dooley; Edwards; Eshoo; Etheridge; Fazio; Flake; Ford; Hamilton; Harman; Hinojosa; Hooley; Hoyer; Jefferson; Johnson, Eddie Bernice; Matsui; McDermott; Moran; Ortiz; Pomeroy; Sawyer; Skaggs; Snyder; Stenholm; Tanner; Tauscher

Democrats Leaning Yes: Hall, Ralph; Price

Democrats Undecided: Ackerman; Deutsch; Doggett; Foglietta; Jackson Lee; John; Lofgren; Lowey; McKinney; Millender-McDonald; Owens; Pastor; Sandlin; Schumer; Skelton;

Democrats Voting No: Abercrombie; Allen; Andrews; Baesler; Baldacci; Barcia; Barrett; Becerra; Bishop; Blagojevich; Bonior; Borski; Boucher; Boyd; Brown, Corrine; Brown, George; Brown, Sherrod; Cardin; Carson; Clay; Clyburn; Condit; Conyers; Costello; Coyne; Cramer; Cummings; Danner; Davis, Danny; DeFazio; DeGette; Delahunt; DeLauro; Dellums; Dingell; Dixon; Doyle; Engel; Evans; Farr; Frank; Frost; Furse; Gejdenson; Gephardt; Gordon; Green; Gutierrez; Hall, Tony; Hastings; Hilliard; Hinchey; Holden; Jackson; Johnson, Jay; Kaptur; Kennedy, Joseph; Kennedy, Patrick; Kennelly; Kildee; Kilpatrick; Kind; Kleczka; Klink; Kucinich; LaFalce; Lampson; Lantos; Levin; Lewis; Lipinski; Luther; Maloney, Carolyn; Maloney, James; Manton; Markey; Martinez; Mascara; McCarthy, Carolyn; McCarthy, Karen; McGovern; McHale; McIntyre; McNulty; Meehan; Meek; Menendez; Miller; Minge; Mink; Moakley; Mollohan; Murtha; Nadler; Neal; Oberstar; Obey; Olver; Pallone; Pascrell; Payne; Pelosi; Peterson; Poshard; Rahall; Rangel; Reyes; Rivers; Rodriguez; Roemer; Rothman; Roybal-Allard; Rush; Sabo; Sanchez; Sanders (I); Scott; Serrano; Sherman; Slaughter; Smith; Spratt; Stabenow; Stark; Stokes; Strickland; Stupak; Taylor; Thompson; Thurman; Tierney; Torres; Towns; Traficant; Turner; Velazquez; Vento; Visclosky; Waters; Waxman; Wexler; Weygand; Wise; Woolsey; Wynn; Yates

Democrats Leaning No: Boswell; Clayton; Gonzalez; Goode; Hefner; Sisisky; Watt

Democrats With No Response: Filner

Democrats Who Declined Response: Fattah; Kanjorski; Pickett

Republicans Voting Yes: Archer; Armey; Bachus; Baker; Barrett; Barton; Bereuter; Bliley; Boehner; Bonilla; Brady; Bryant; Camp; Campbell; Cannon; Castle; Chabot; Christensen; Crane; Cox; Davis; DeLay; Dreier; Dunn; Ewing; Fawell; Fossella; Franks; Frelinghuysen; Ganske; Gilchrest; Gingrich; Goodlatte; Goss; Granger; Greenwood; Gutknecht; Hansen; Hastert; Hastings; Herger; Houghton; Hulshof; Hyde; Johnson, Nancy; Johnson, Sam; Kasich; Kim; King; Klug; Knollenberg; Kolbe; LaHood; Largent; Latham; Leach; Lewis, Jerry; Linder; Livingston; Manzullo; McCrery; McKeon; Miller; Nethercutt; Northup; Oxley; Packard; Parker; Paxon; Pease; Pitts; Porter; Portman; Pryce; Radanovich; Ramstad; Rogan; Roukema; Ryun; Salmon; Saxton; Schaefer; Sessions; Shadegg; Shaw; Shays; Shimkus; Skeen; Smith, Bob; Smith, Lamar; Watkins; Watts; White

Republicans Leaning Yes: Ballenger; Gekas; Hayworth; Hutchinson; Myrick; Redmond; Thune; Weldon, Dave

Republicans Undecided: Bass; Bateman; Bilbray; Bilirakis; Blunt; Boehlert; Bunning; Callahan; Calvert; Coble; Collins; Combest; Cunningham; Dickey; Ehlers; Ehrlich; Emerson; Fox; Gallegly; Hefley; Hill; Hilleary; Hobson; Horn; Jenkins; Jones; Kelly; Lazio; McIntosh; Moran; Pappas; Peterson; Petri; Pickering; Regula; Sanford; Schaffer; Schiff; Sensenbrenner; Shuster; Smith, Nick; Snowbarger; Stump; Sununu; Talent; Upton; Weldon, Curtis

Republicans Voting No: Aderholt; Barr; Bartlett; Bono; Burr; Burton; Buyer; Canady; Chenoweth; Coburn; Cook; Crapo; Cubin; Deal; Diaz-Balart; Doolittle; Duncan; English; Everett; Foley; Forbes; Gibbons; Goodling; Graham; Hostettler; Hunter; Inglis; LaTourette; LoBiondo; McCollum; McHugh; McInnis; Metcalf; Mica; Ney; Norwood; Pombo; Quinn; Rogers; Rohrabacher; Ros-Lehtinen; Scarborough; Smith, Christopher; Smith, Linda; Solomon; Souder; Spence; Stearns; Tauzin; Tiahrt; Walsh; Wamp; Whitfield; Wolf; Young, C.W. (Bill); Young, Don

Republicans Leaning No: Chambliss; Ensign; Fowler; Hoekstra; Istook; Kingston; Lucas; Riggs; Weller

Republicans With No Response: Gillmor; Gilman; Lewis, Ron; Neumann; Riley; Royce; Thomas; Thornberry; Wicker

Republicans Who Declined Response: Cooksey; McDade; Morella; Nussle; Paul; Taylor

WASHINGTON (AP) In the end, it wasn't enough. But in their quest to pass a trade bill, the Clinton administration and congressional leaders piled deal on top of deal at least 18 concessions in all.

Rep. Mac Collins, R-Ga., was bidding for the administration's attention to one of his largest corporate constituents, American Family Life Assurance Co.

To lure Collins' vote, a section was planned for the trade bill that would have directed the U.S. trade representative to press for full enforcement of an agreement that is supposed to allow greater U.S. investment in the Japanese insurance industry.

AFLAC is the largest foreign insurance company doing business in Japan, where three-fourths of its 40 million policyholders live, said company spokeswoman Kathelen Spencer.

The provision was to ensure "that existing and future U.S. investments in the Japanese insurance market are protected," according to the draft agreement that was pulled back when the trade bill stalled early Monday.

Collins was driving back to his Georgia district, home to AFLAC's headquarters, on Monday and could not be reached for comment. An aide said he was still officially undecided on the fast track vote, which now will be postponed until next year. Collins has voted against similar trade bills.

To some Democrats, President Clinton promised everything from future fund-raising appearances to protection against imports for tobacco and peanut growers.

Even though the bill was shelved for the year, Clinton planned to deliver on those promises, said White House spokesman Mike McCurry. "That's just the honest thing to do, and we'll do it," he said.

Rep. Bill Archer, chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, declined to make a similar pledge. "I'm not going to try to predict it," he said.

For Rep. Clay Shaw, R-Fla., the draft agreement included a section that would allow the Customs Service to dip into its user fee fund to pay for up to 50 additional inspectors to help process cruise ship passengers arriving in Florida. Shaw's coastal district includes the ports of Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach.

Other Florida votes were wooed with language stepping up the enforcement of anti-dumping trade rules on vegetables and requiring country-of-origin labeling for foreign fruits and vegetables.

Lawmakers representing wheat, cattle and other farm interests got a new enforcement mechanism to use against countries that erect unfair barriers to U.S. farm exports. The group included Sens. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., and Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Reps. Dave Camp, R-Mich., and Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D.

In a bow to anti-tax conservatives like Reps. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., and Van Hilleary, R-Tenn., the mechanism to pay for the bill's job training provisions was changed. Instead of using proceeds from closing a tax loophole, House leaders opted to raise the $102 million by cutting the computer budget at the Agriculture Department and selling surplus Energy Department uranium.

For Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo., a senior member of the panel that oversees the Pentagon, there was a declaration that international trade is vital to U.S. national security.