[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 158 (Thursday, October 12, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H9954]
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                          LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM

  (Mr. ARMEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, I would like to advise my colleagues in the 
House that due to the extraordinary effort of cooperation that has been 
made by the potential conferees on the telecommunications bill and on 
the appropriations bill we just handled, we will be able to handle this 
evening the legislative schedule that we had scheduled for tomorrow. In 
that context, by working a little later this evening, we will be able 
to avoid having to be here for votes tomorrow.
  At this time, and again if I can express my appreciation to the 
Subcommittee on Foreign Operations of Appropriations and to the 
Committee on Commerce for their willingness to move up their work to 
this evening, on behalf of all our membership, we will be able to 
complete this matter of going to conference on the telecommunications 
bill now, then return to the science bill, finish our work for the week 
this evening and be free from the requirement of votes tomorrow.
  We will have a further announcement about next week's schedule as the 
evening progresses. I would like to try to project a time when we could 
complete our work this evening. At approximately 9 o'clock this 
evening, we should have then been able to have our last vote of the 
week.
  Mr. SKAGGS. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. ARMEY. I yield to the gentleman from Colorado.
  Mr. SKAGGS. Mr. Speaker, is it the leader's intention that we would 
have even a pro forma session tomorrow?
  Mr. ARMEY. We are still checking on the possibility. I can tell you 
that there will be a pro forma session on Monday, no votes required on 
Monday. But whether or not there is a pro forma session necessary for 
tomorrow is something we are still checking on.

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