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“LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the House of Representatives section on pages H11735 on Nov. 2, 1995.
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LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM
(Mr. BONIOR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.)
Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, I ask for this 1 minute for the purpose of engaging with the distinguished majority leader to find out what the schedule will be like for tonight and for next week.
Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
Mr. BONIOR. I yield to the gentleman from Texas, the majority leader.
Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, we just had the last vote of the day and of the week. The House will not be in session tomorrow.
Mr. Speaker, the House will meet in pro forma session on Monday, November 6. There will be no votes on Monday.
On Tuesday, November 7, the House will meet at 12:30 p.m. for morning hour and at 2 p.m. for legislative business. The House will consider the following 12 bills under suspension of the rules:
H.J. Res. 69, reappointing Homer Alfred Neal to the Smithsonian Board of Regents;
H.J. Res. 110, appointing Howard H. Baker, Jr., to the Smithsonian Board of Regents;
H.J. Res. 111, appointing Anne D'Harnoncourt to the Smithsonian Board of Regents;
H.J. Res. 112, appointing Louis Gerstner to the Smithsonian Board of Regents;
H.R. 2527, permitting electronic filing and preservation of Federal Election Commission reports;
H.R. 238, providing for the protection of free-roaming horses in the Ozark National Scenic Riverways;
H.R. 207, the Cleveland National Forest Land Exchange Act of 1995;
H.R. 2437, providing for the exchange of certain lands in Gilpin County, Colorado;
H.R. 1838, providing for the exchange of lands with the Water Conservancy District of Washington County, Utah;
H.R. 1585, the Modoc National Forest Boundary Adjustment Act;
H.R. 1581, land conveyance, city of Sumpter, Oregon; and
H.R. 1163, land exchange at Fire Island National Seashore.
After consideration of the suspensions, the House will take up the conference report for H.R. 1977, the Department of Interior Appropriations Act for fiscal year 1996.
It should be noted, Mr. Speaker, that any recorded votes ordered will be postponed until 6 p.m. on Tuesday, November 7.
On Wednesday and Thursday, Mr. Speaker, the House will meet at 10 a.m. We plan to consider the conference reports for S. 395, the Alaska Power Administration Sale Act, and H.R. 1058, the Securities Litigation Reform Act, both of which are subject to rules.
The House will also take up a continuing resolution for the 1996 fiscal year, which is subject to a rule.
Of course Members should be advised that additional conference reports may be brought up to the floor at any time.
Mr. Speaker, we expect to conclude legislative business for the week by around 6 p.m. on Thursday, November 9. There will be no legislative business on Friday, November 10, in observance of Veterans Day.
Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague, and I have one or two inquiries to my friend from Texas.
There is, as the gentleman has stated, a very important conference report on the Interior bill that you have scheduled for Tuesday evening, and, given the lightness of the schedule on Wednesday, would it not be possible to move that bill to Wednesday and do it in the light of day instead of late in the evening on Tuesday?
Mr. ARMEY. I thank the gentleman for making that request, but we have already very carefully developed the schedule for the purpose of having Members in attendance on Tuesday night, and there will be no change.
Mr. BONIOR. What is the status of the product liability bill; may I ask my friend from Texas?
Mr. ARMEY. If the gentleman will yield, we expect perhaps the motion to go to conference sometime next week.
Mr. BONIOR. Sometime next week.
And I note there was also another continuing resolution that the gentleman from Texas mentioned in his remarks, which means that I guess we expect that we will not meet the second deadline for finishing the appropriation bills, and so my question, I guess, to my friend from Texas would be:
When do you expect us to do that and can you give us a sense of how long the extension will be?
Mr. ARMEY. We expect to do the CR on Wednesday, and of course we expect to continue working on the appropriations.
Mr. BONIOR. Have you picked a date yet?
Mr. ARMEY. I respond to the gentleman by saying as soon as possible we will be bringing them back from conference.
Mr. BONIOR. But my question was to how long the extension might be, the CR, through what date.
Mr. ARMEY. The exact details of the time frame for the CR are still in the discussion stage. We will not have that determined until perhaps sometime tomorrow.
Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend for his observations and comments.
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