[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 117 (Thursday, August 18, 1994)]
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                          LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR

  (Mr. WALKER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WALKER. Mr. Speaker, I take this time for the purpose of 
inquiring of the Chair whether or not we have any idea what the program 
might be for tomorrow and the balance of the week. I am trying to 
ascertain whether or not the Chair can inform the House what we are 
going to be doing tomorrow, you know, how long the Members might expect 
to be in town tomorrow, whether or not this session is going to extend 
into the weekend, whether or not Members might be expected to cancel 
schedules for early next week.
  Mr. Speaker, there are an awful lot of questions floating around the 
floor and many, many rumors to go with those questions. It would be 
extremely helpful at this point to at least have some idea where we 
might be tomorrow.
  Mr. FOLEY. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. WALKER. I would be pleased to yield to the distinguished Speaker, 
the gentleman from Washington [Mr. Foley], so that he might update the 
House a bit in that regard.
  Mr. FOLEY. Mr. Speaker, I will say to the gentleman that, in the 
absence of the majority leader, who is off the floor for a moment, we 
intend to be in communication with the gentleman's leadership tonight 
on the schedule. We are meeting tomorrow. The House will be in session 
tomorrow.
  We hope that we can conclude the pending business of the House, which 
is the consideration of the crime legislation, perhaps if not late 
tomorrow night, on Saturday. But we are going to be in discussion with 
the gentleman's Members about that and about how we can best effectuate 
the most expeditious way to proceed in a way that provides the Members 
with the ability to have some plans for what will happen next week.
  Mr. WALKER. I thank the Speaker for that because the real issue is 
there are a number of rumors running around that we might quit as of 
tomorrow, we might come back next week, and Members are trying to 
figure out whether or not to hold the weekend open or whether or not to 
begin to open up their schedule next week.
  Mr. FOLEY. At this juncture the only thing I can tell the gentleman 
is that we will be in session tomorrow and we intend to communicate 
with the gentleman's leadership tonight and tomorrow as well. We will 
have some additional information for Members early tomorrow.
  Mr. WALKER. But the feeling is at this time if we did stretch it, it 
would probably go into the weekend rather than next week?
  Mr. FOLEY. I would not rule that out. It depends, to some degree, 
again, on the recommendations made by the gentleman's side as to how 
they feel it best to proceed as well. We intend to have very 
cooperative consultation on that question for the mutual advantage of 
Members on both sides. We understand the concern of Members with 
respect to planning for this weekend and what might happen next week.
  We want to give Members the maximum opportunity to know, as best we 
can, how to plan their affairs.
  Mr. WALKER. My assumption is that we will proceed with the hydrogen 
fusion bill tomorrow, is that right? That was scheduled for tomorrow.
  Mr. FOLEY. The gentleman is correct.
  Mr. WALKER. And that we would do that tomorrow. As ranking member on 
that committee, it does appear as though that would be a relatively 
noncontroversial bill that would move fairly quickly at this point, so 
that that probably will not take a lot of Members' time if that 
proceeds forward. And we would then, as I gather, hope that by that 
point we will be able to take up the crime bill, is that it?
  Mr. FOLEY. Well, I cannot promise the gentleman exactly when the 
crime bill will be taken up. But I certainly will say that we will have 
a better idea tomorrow when we are in session and advise the Members on 
the schedule for the remainder of the week and/or the possibility as to 
whatever might happen next week.
  Mr. WALKER. I thank the Speaker, and I thank the Chair.

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