[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 34 (Wednesday, March 23, 1994)]
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                          LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM

  (Mr. MICHEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, I ask for this time for the purpose of 
inquiring of the distinguished majority leader the program for the 
balance of this evening and tomorrow or as he sees it unfold before we 
recess.
  Mr. GEPHARDT. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. MICHEL. I am happy to yield to the gentleman from Missouri.
  Mr. GEPHARDT. Mr. Speaker, there will not be further votes this 
evening.
  There will be an attempt to file the rule tomorrow on the crime bill, 
and that rule will then be an attempt to take it up on Friday. We will 
take up H.R. 6 tomorrow on the floor and try to bring it to completion.
  Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, might I inquire of the distinguished 
majority leader, the other issue that comes out of the Committee on the 
Judiciary on how that will be orchestrated tomorrow relative to the 
lobbying measure.
  Mr. GEPHARDT. Yes. There would be an attempt for a unanimous consent 
and then a rule which would allow it to be brought up on suspension.

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  Mr. GINGRICH: Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. MICHEL. I yield to the gentleman from Georgia.
  Mr. GINGRICH: I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, I do not want any Member to be confused about the next 2 
days. It is our hope that the draft of the rule we saw tonight on the 
crime bill will be rewritten before it is filed and the Committee on 
Rules will meet again. I want all of my colleagues to understand this 
in advance that the second day a rule so restrictive that, in the words 
of the President in Boston, it says, ``No, no, no, no,'' to amendment 
after amendment after amendment, if that rule is filed in its current 
form, from that moment on we will do everything we could in this House 
procedurally to insure that the country understands which amendments 
are not being offered, why they are not being offered, and raise that 
question.
  I hope that tonight the Committee on Rules will decide to meet 
again--it has not filed that rule--and by tomorrow we will have a rule 
more accommodating to a wide range of Members who deserve the right to 
offer serious amendments on the crime bill.
  Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

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