[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 103 (Thursday, June 22, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H6208]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           RULE ON VOTE TIME

  (Mr. HEFLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HEFLEY. Let us wait just a minute, folks, with all the screaming 
and wrapping of the righteous robes of indignation around your bodies 
about what happened here yesterday. The rule was established at the 
outset of this session. We are not going to do it like we did in the 
old days. We are not going to slop over for 30 minutes on the votes. We 
are going to have 15-minute votes. Those 15-minute votes, because 
sometimes there are unexplainable circumstances, those 15-minute votes 
sometimes will wait until 17 minutes. The vote yesterday was 17 
minutes. But I guess some Members are slow learners and they habitually 
wander in here after the 17 minutes and say, one more, one more, let us 
vote.
  We were here. Where were those two Members when everybody else had 
voted within the 17 minutes? Where were those two Members who feel like 
they were so wronged yesterday? They had the same time we did. I guess 
they had things that were more important to do than to be on this floor 
and vote within that 17-minute limit.
  We are here to try to change Congress and change this country. You 
are just trying to change the subject.

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