W. P. G. memo, September 2002

с То: RLE, SLK, HPF From: WPG Re: Attack Add Rebuttal 9/2002 Note: this should help HPF put fact to the fiction. VOTE 1 1995 H.R. 961 - The Federal Water Pollution Control Act: Rep. Bud Schuster (R-PA) Roll Call vote #336 - Motion to recommit with Instructions to the Committee on Transportation This motion, introduced by minority whip David Bonior (D-MI), seeks to send the bill back to the Transportation Committee. A motion to recommit a bill to committee is a procedural vote which affords the minority one last opportunity to defeat a bill before the bill receives a vote on final passage. In effect, this procedural motion is a vote to determine which party controls the floor of the House during the closing moments of debate on H.R. 961. A successful vote on a motion to recommit scuttles legislation by sending it to the appropriate committee with instructions to make alterations to the bill before it is reported back to the floor of the House for another vote. Ehrlich voted AGAINST final passage of this bill and against the position of House leadership, Roll Call #337, 240-185) because the bill weakened environmental protections for the Chesapeake bay. Rep. Bonior’s motion to recommit included instructions to the Transportation Committee to report the bill back to the House floor after it made the following changes: With standards for the discharge of industrial pollution into water no move lax than those which exist today; With water pollution prevention and control protections no less than those which exist today for public water supplies which are used for drinking; With a report on this bill by the Congressional Budget Office which complies with section 101 of Public Law 104-4, the 'Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995’, as such section would otherwise be in effect on January 1, 1996.