[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 37 (Tuesday, February 28, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2374]
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 CLARIFICATION OF WAIVER WITH RESPECT TO RESOLUTION OF INQUIRY ON THE 
                          MEXICAN PESO CRISIS

  (By unanimous consent, Mr. Frank of Massachusetts was allowed to 
proceed for 1 minute.)
  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Let me address the majority leader. It 
was my understanding that in order to do that, it would require a 
waiver of the 3-day layover rule. Is the majority leader asking for 
that permission?
  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. I yield to the gentleman from Texas.
  Mr. ARMEY. I thank the gentleman for yielding.


 granting of permission on request to waive the three-day layover rule

  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to waive the 3-day 
layover rule with the point that the minority has agreed to that.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request to the 
gentleman from Texas?
  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to 
object, I have never thought that waiving the 3-day rule was a big 
deal, like my friends on the other side. I am glad to welcome them to 
the position that occasionally waiving that rule is a perfectly 
reasonable thing to do. I think the gentleman for doing it explicitly. 
I does seem a bad idea to me to waive it implicitly.
  But since this is also cleared with the minority and since this 
precedent of waiving a 3-day rule when it is inconvenient is not such a 
bad one, Mr. Speaker, I withdraw my reservation of objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Texas?
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to object, I 
would like to ask the majority leader a question. This resolution of 
inquiry does not preclude any other legislative action pertaining to 
the Mexican bailout program?
  Mr. ARMEY. If the gentleman would yield, no, it does not.
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. I thank the gentleman, and I withdraw my 
reservation of objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Texas?
  There was no objection.
  

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