[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 109 (Friday, June 30, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H6681]
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                          LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM

  (Mr. GEPHARDT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GEPHARDT. Mr. Speaker, I rise to inquire of the gentleman from 
Texas [Mr. Armey] regarding the schedule for next week, July 10.
  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. GEPHARDT. I yield to the gentleman from Texas.
  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, on Monday, July 10, the House will meet at 
12:30 p.m. for morning hour and 2 p.m. for legislative business. We 
plan to take up four bills under suspension of the rules: H.R. 1642, 
extending most-favored-nation status to Cambodia, H.R. 1643, extending 
MFN to Bulgaria, H.R. 1141, the Sikes Act Improvement Amendments of 
1995, and S. 523, the Colorado Basin salinity control amendments.
  Members should be advised that there will be no recorded votes taken 
before 5 p.m. on Monday, July 10. After any recorded votes on 
suspensions, we will consider a committee naming resolution before 
taking up the second rule and continued debate on H.R. 1868, the fiscal 
year 1996 Foreign Operations appropriations bill.
  On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, the House will meet at 10 a.m. 
for legislative business. We will continue consideration of fiscal year 
1996 appropriations bills, including the Energy and Water, Interior, 
and Agriculture appropriations bills.
  It is our hope to have the Members on their way home to their 
families and their districts by no later than 6 o'clock on Thursday 
evening. There will be no recorded votes on Friday of that week.
  Mr. GEPHARDT. Mr. Speaker, the majority leader indicated his intent 
to bring up a committee naming resolution before considering the 
Foreign Operations appropriations bill on Monday, July 10.
  Am I correct, Mr. Speaker, In assuming the gentleman is referring to 
the majority party's intent to seat the gentleman from Texas [Mr. 
Laughlin] on the Committee on Ways and Means?
  Mr. ARMEY. The gentleman is correct. At this time, that is the only 
committee designation that would be made. I suppose it is possible 
something else might pop up in the meantime, but that right now is the 
only designation that I know of.
  Mr. GEPHARDT. Mr. Speaker, as I have said to the gentleman, and all 
Members should understand, there may be a large number of votes that 
evening after the starting time, and Members should be advised of that 
possibility.
  Mr. ARMEY. I thank the gentleman. I think it is very helpful to all 
our Members, in the interests of doing their district work period and 
then returning, that we are able to assure them there will be no votes 
until after 5 o'clock, but I think the gentleman is absolutely correct. 
After 5 o'clock, we can most assuredly expect that there will be some 
votes, and they will be important votes that they will want to 
participate in.

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  Mr. GEPHARDT. I wish the distinguished majority leader and all 
Members a productive, successful, and restful Fourth of July district 
work period.
  Mr. ARMEY. I thank the gentleman from Missouri. I, too, would like to 
encourage all our Members to have a good break, get some good work 
done, rest, relax, and we will all come back happy and congenially 
ready to go back to work on some of the material we did not finish 
today.


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