[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 7 (Wednesday, February 2, 1994)]
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                          LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM

  (Mr. GINGRICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GINGRICH. Mr. Speaker, I take this time to discuss the schedule.
  Let me say on behalf of the Republican leadership--and I have cleared 
this with the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Michel]--we are very 
prepared to have the Committee on Rules go back in and craft a new rule 
on EPA which would make in order the Michel-Thurmond amendment. And we 
would be prepared on our side to support a rule that was crafted in a 
bipartisan manner and to try to pass it out either tonight or tomorrow 
morning, whichever would be the will of the Democratic leadership. I 
see no reason why we cannot move forward on EPA in a bipartisan manner.
  Mr. GEPHARDT. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. GINGRICH. I yield to the distinguished majority leader, my 
friend, the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. Gephardt].
  Mr. GEPHARDT. I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the offer of the gentleman from Georgia. We 
will undoubtedly be in consultation with the gentleman and other 
Members of the minority and the majority in order to figure out the 
next step on EPA. However, we believe that tomorrow's activity on the 
earthquake relief bill is going to take so long that it will be 
impossible to do both. So we would like to be able to start at 10 in 
the morning and finish that at a reasonable hour. We will continue 
consultations in the meantime on the EPA bill.
  Mr. GINGRICH. Let me just say, if I might, that we would be prepared 
tomorrow to be very supportive on earthquake relief, and I would hope 
that whether it was done tonight or tomorrow or next week, we could 
find a bipartisan way to move this bill forward. We look forward to 
working with the leadership on that.

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