                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Sunday, October 16, 1994               TAG: 9410160037
SECTION: FRONT                    PAGE: A18  EDITION: FINAL 
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CONGRESSIONAL ROLL CALL

Here's how area members of Congress were recorded on major roll call votes in the days before the current recess.

HOUSE

NATIONAL PARK FEES: The House rejected a bill (HR 4533) enabling the National Park Service to raise entry fees to the general public and charge market value to outside groups renting park facilities. The 238-174 tally fell short of the two-thirds majority required for passage under a short-cut parliamentary procedure. Under the bill, entry fees that are now capped generally at $5 per vehicle and $3 per individual were to have risen to $6 per person. The bill sought $30 million annually in new revenue. Most of its features were recommended by Vice President Al Gore's National Performance Review.

A yes vote was to pass the bill.

Herbert H. Bateman, R-Va. Yes

Owen B. Pickett, D-Va. Yes

Robert C. Scott, D-Va. Yes

Norman Sisisky, D-Va. Yes

Eva Clayton, D-N.C. Yes

H. Martin Lancaster, D-N.C. Yes

COMPLIANCE: By a vote of 348 to 3, the House changed its rules to require members to comply with 10 major workplace safety, civil rights and employee rights laws that affect the private sector. Among them are the Occupational Safety and Health Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This vote on HJ Res 578 affects only the House side of Capitol Hill. It occurred after Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., blocked Senate consideration of a House-passed bill (HR 4822) to require compliance by law, not internal rules. The legislative branch has nearly 40,000 employees, about 11,000 of whom work for the House.

A yes vote was to require compliance with the ten laws through a change in House rules.

Bateman Did not vote

Pickett Did not vote

Scott Yes

Sisisky Did not vote

Clayton Yes

Lancaster Yes

INFLATION ESCALATOR: By a vote of 195 to 223, the House refused to kill a cost-of-living escalator that benefits certain counties, particularly those in the West containing expanses of U.S. land. The vote occurred as the House sent President Clinton a bill (S 455) compensating counties for revenue lost as a result of tax-exempt federal land. Over four years, the bill more than quadruples the $105 million annual authorization for the ``payment in lieu of taxes'' program. The escalator, which ties payments to the Consumer Price Index, is a new feature.

A yes vote was to remove inflation indexing for counties from the bill.

Bateman No

Pickett No

Scott No

Sisisky Yes

Clayton No

Lancaster No

PROPERTY RIGHTS: By a vote of 234 to 187, the House adopted an amendment on the issue of compensating certain private property owners. The vote occurred as the House passed the American Heritage Partnership Program (HR 5044) authorizing public-private compacts to preserve historical and cultural areas. The amendment killed a proposed administrative procedure for compensation in cases where property values are substantially diminished by the law. It reaffirmed the recourse of aggrieved parties seeking compensation in court under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.

A yes vote was to kill the proposed administrative procedure for compensating property owners.

Bateman Yes

Pickett No

Scott Yes

Sisisky No

Clayton Yes

Lancaster No

SENATE

CALIFORNIA DESERT: By a vote of 68 to 23, the Senate silenced a GOP filibuster against legislation (S 21) giving federal protection to nearly a third of the 25 million-acre southeastern California desert. The Senate then sent the bill to Clinton by nonrecord vote, enacting the largest federal property acquisition since the 1980 Alaska lands act. In part, the bill designates 3.5 million acres as wilderness where mining and motor vehicles are banned, protects four million acres by creating the Death Valley and Joshua Tree national parks, and establishes a 1.4 million-acre East Mojave scenic area where hunting is permitted.

A yes vote was to advance the California Desert Protection Act.

John W. Warner, R-Va. Yes

Charles S. Robb, D-Va. Yes

Jesse A. Helms, R-N.C. Did not vote

Lauch Faircloth, R-N.C. No