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TELEPHONE EXCISE TAX REPEAL ACT -- (House of Representatives - May 25, 2000)

Again, I want to applaud my friends on the other side of the aisle for working with us together in a bipartisan fashion to finally put an end to this Spanish-American War tax as we go into the 21st century and which is a barrier to telecommunications and an unfair tax that should have been repealed a long time ago. It was put in as a temporary tax and a temporary luxury tax at that. Finally we are getting rid of it.

Second, I will say, having looked at this, it is a very interesting motion to recommit. It, basically, says that 527 corporations could continue not to disclose anything so long as they agree to continue paying a 3 percent Federal excise tax . So it is a clever way to attach it to the legislation at hand in order to avoid, I suppose, the germaneness problems that the parliamentarian would otherwise raise or we would raise and he would confirm. But it is not a very strong enforcement mechanism.

I would say, if the gentleman is serious about it, he ought to go back to the drawing board, work with the gentleman from New York (Mr. HOUGHTON), work with others who want to put

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this together in a strong bipartisan way to come up with legislation that makes sense in a comprehensive way to deal with this real problem in a real comprehensive way.

So I would urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, if they want to get something done for the American people, vote for the repeal of the telephone tax . If they want to do it in a clean way that sends a strong message that does not involve partisan political politics with what should be a very straight forward and a very important constructive step by this Congress, vote ``no'' on the motion to recommit.

The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. LATOURETTE). Without objection, the previous question is ordered on the motion to recommit.

There was no objection.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to recommit.

The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that the noes appeared to have it.

Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, I object to the vote on the ground that a quorum is not present and make the point of order that a quorum is not present.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Evidently a quorum is not present.

The Sergeant at Arms will notify absent Members.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair will reduce to a minimum of 5 minutes the period of time within which a vote by electronic device, if ordered, will be taken on the question of passage.

The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 208, nays 214, not voting 13, as follows:

[Roll No. 232] YEAS--208

Abercrombie

Ackerman

Allen

Andrews

Baca

Baird

Baldacci

Baldwin

Barcia

Barrett (WI)

Becerra

Bentsen

Berkley

Berman

Berry

Bilbray

Bishop

Blagojevich

Blumenauer

Bonior

Borski

Boswell

Boucher

Boyd

Brady (PA)

Brown (FL)

Brown (OH)

Capps

Capuano

Cardin

Carson

Clayton

Clement

Clyburn

Condit

Conyers

Costello

Coyne

Cramer

Crowley

Cummings

Danner

Davis (IL)

DeFazio

DeGette

Delahunt

DeLauro

Deutsch

Dicks

Dingell

Dixon

Doggett

Dooley

Doyle

Edwards

Engel

Eshoo

Etheridge

Evans

Farr

Fattah

Filner

Forbes

Ford

Frank (MA)

Frost

Ganske

Gejdenson

Gephardt

Gonzalez

Gordon

Green (TX)

Gutierrez

Hall (OH)

Hastings (FL)

Hill (IN)

Hilliard

Hinchey

Hinojosa

Hoeffel

Holden

Holt

Hooley

Horn

Hoyer

Inslee

Jackson (IL)

Jackson-Lee (TX)

Jefferson

John

Johnson, E. B.

Jones (OH)

Kanjorski

Kaptur

Kildee

Kilpatrick

Kind (WI)

Kleczka

Klink

Kucinich

LaFalce

Lampson

Lantos

Larson

Leach

Lee

Levin

Lewis (GA)

Lipinski

Lofgren

Lowey

Lucas (KY)

Luther

Maloney (CT)

Maloney (NY)

Markey

Mascara

Matsui

McCarthy (MO)

McCarthy (NY)

McDermott

McGovern

McIntyre

McKinney

McNulty

Meehan

Meeks (NY)

Menendez

Millender-McDonald

Miller, George

Mink

Moakley

Moore

Moran (VA)

Morella

Murtha

Nadler

Napolitano

Neal

Nethercutt

Oberstar

Obey

Olver

Ortiz

Owens

Pallone

Pascrell

Pastor

Payne

Pelosi

Peterson (MN)

Phelps

Pickett

Pomeroy

Price (NC)

Rahall

Rangel

Reyes

Rivers

Rodriguez

Roemer

Rothman

Roybal-Allard

Rush

Sabo

Sanchez

Sanders

Sandlin

Sawyer

Schakowsky

Scott

Serrano

Sherman

Shows

Sisisky

Skelton

Slaughter

Smith (WA)

Snyder

Spratt

Stabenow

Stark

Stenholm

Strickland

Stupak

Tanner

Tauscher

Taylor (MS)

Thompson (CA)

Thompson (MS)

Thurman

Tierney

Towns

Turner

Udall (CO)

Udall (NM)

Velazquez

Vento

Visclosky

Waters

Watt (NC)

Waxman

Wexler

Weygand

Wise

Woolsey

Wynn

NAYS--214

Aderholt

Archer

Armey

Bachus

Baker

Ballenger

Barr

Barrett (NE)

Bartlett

Barton

Bass

Bereuter

Biggert

Bilirakis

Bliley

Blunt

Boehlert

Boehner

Bonilla

Bono

Brady (TX)

Bryant

Burr

Burton

Buyer

Callahan

Calvert

Camp

Campbell

Canady

Cannon

Castle

Chabot

Chambliss

Chenoweth-Hage

Coble

Collins

Combest

Cook

Cooksey

Cox

Crane

Cubin

Cunningham

Davis (VA)

Deal

DeLay

DeMint

Diaz-Balart

Dickey

Doolittle

Dreier

Duncan

Dunn

Ehlers

Ehrlich

Emerson

English

Everett

Ewing

Fletcher

Foley

Fossella

Fowler

Franks (NJ)

Frelinghuysen

Gallegly

Gekas

Gibbons

Gilchrest

Gillmor

Gilman

Goode

Goodlatte

Goodling

Goss

Graham

Granger

Green (WI)

Greenwood

Gutknecht

Hall (TX)

Hansen

Hastert

Hastings (WA)

Hayes

Hayworth

Hefley

Herger

Hill (MT)

Hilleary

Hobson

Hoekstra

Hostettler

Houghton

Hulshof

Hunter

Hutchinson

Hyde

Isakson

Istook

Jenkins

Johnson (CT)

Johnson, Sam

Jones (NC)

Kasich

Kelly

King (NY)

Kingston

Knollenberg

Kolbe

Kuykendall

LaHood

Largent

Latham

LaTourette

Lazio

Lewis (CA)

Lewis (KY)

Linder

LoBiondo

Lucas (OK)

Manzullo

Martinez

McCollum

McCrery

McHugh

McIntosh

McKeon

Metcalf

Mica

Miller (FL)

Miller, Gary

Moran (KS)

Myrick

Ney

Northup

Norwood

Nussle

Ose

Oxley

Packard

Paul

Pease

Peterson (PA)

Petri

Pickering

Pitts

Pombo

Porter

Portman

Pryce (OH)

Quinn

Radanovich

Ramstad

Regula

Reynolds

Riley

Rogan

Rogers

Rohrabacher

Roukema

Royce

Ryan (WI)

Ryun (KS)

Salmon

Sanford

Saxton

Schaffer

Sensenbrenner

Sessions

Shadegg

Shaw

Shays

Sherwood

Shimkus

Shuster

Simpson

Skeen

Smith (MI)

Smith (NJ)

Smith (TX)

Souder

Stearns

Stump

Sununu

Sweeney

Talent

Tancredo

Tauzin

Taylor (NC)

Terry

Thomas

Thornberry

Thune

Tiahrt

Toomey

Traficant

Upton

Vitter

Walden

Walsh

Wamp

Watkins

Watts (OK)

Weldon (FL)

Weldon (PA)

Weller

Whitfield

Wicker

Wilson

Wolf

Young (AK)

Young (FL)

NOT VOTING--13

Bateman

Clay

Coburn

Davis (FL)

Kennedy

McInnis

Meek (FL)

Minge

Mollohan

Ros-Lehtinen

Scarborough

Spence

Weiner

[Time: 15:22]

Messrs. METCALF, EVERETT, TANCREDO, LAZIO and SIMPSON changed their vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''

Mr. HORN changed his vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''

So the motion to recommit was rejected.

The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.

The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. SHIMKUS). The question is on the passage of the bill.

The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that the ayes appeared to have it.

RECORDED VOTE

Mr. ARCHER. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.

A recorded vote was ordered.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote.

The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 420, noes 2, not voting 13, as follows:

[Roll No. 233] AYES--420