[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 92 (Wednesday, June 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H5682]
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       CLARIFICATION SOUGHT CONCERNING DEBATE ON BOSNIA AMENDMENT

  Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to address the House 
for 1 minute.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from New York?
  Mr. THOMAS. Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to object, I will not 
object if the request is something other than an imploring of the 
chairman that someone else be allowed to offer an amendment. If the 
request is something other than that, I will not object.
  Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. THOMAS. I yield to the gentleman from New York.
  Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, I have a question for the chairman.
  Mr. THOMAS. Mr. Speaker, I withdraw my reservation of objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the gentleman from New 
York [Mr. Engel] is recognized for 1 minute.
  There was no objection.
  Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, I would like to inquire of the chairman, with 
the big events in Bosnia this past week, we are dealing with a very, 
very important foreign aid bill. I know that the gentleman from 
Maryland [Mr. Hoyer] has an amendment which I am sure the American 
people would like to see debated.
  I just find it incongruous that we are being denied, for whatever 
reason; I am not blaming anyone, but the way it is working out, it 
seems that Mr. Hoyer will not be allowed to put forth his amendment 
which would call for an end to the arms embargo. I think this is a 
very, very important vote on a very important amendment at a very 
important time.
  I am wondering if I could somehow or other ask unanimous consent or 
ask the chairman if we can somehow get some time to debate Mr. Hoyer's 
amendment because I think the American people want to see us debate it 
and it is too important to just push it to the side.
  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. ENGEL. I yield to the gentleman from New York.
  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, I will be pleased to respond to the 
gentleman. We all share the concern about the Bosnia situation. 
Tomorrow afternoon we will be having a hearing on Bosnia in the 
Committee on International Relations. I discussed the Bosnia amendment 
with the gentleman from Maryland [Mr. Hoyer]. We talked about trying to 
have sufficient time to properly debate that measure on a single 
standing bill rather than to take it up as part of this in a very short 
and limited period of time.
  I assured Mr. Hoyer that I would try to work with him in bringing 
that measure to the floor at an early date following the consideration 
of this measure.

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