[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 162 (Thursday, October 19, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H10465]
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                          LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM

  (Mr. BONIOR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, I would inquire from the distinguished 
majority leader the schedule for next week.
  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. BONIOR. I yield to the gentleman from Texas.
  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, this is the last recorded vote of this week. 
We will not be in session tomorrow, except for pro forma.
  On Tuesday, October 24, the House will meet at 12:30 p.m. for morning 
hour, and at 2 p.m. for business.
  We plan to take up three bills under Corrections Day procedures: H.R. 
782, the Federal Employee Representative Improvement Act of 1995; H.R. 
117, the Senior Citizens Housing Safety Act of 1995, and H.R. 1114, the 
Paper Balers Act.
  Once the corrections bills have been considered, we will turn to H.R. 
716, a bill to amend the Fisherman's Protective Act, which will be 
considered under suspension of the rules. Members should be advised, 
Mr. Speaker, that any recorded votes ordered will be postponed until 5 
p.m. on Tuesday next.
  On Wednesday and Thursday, the House will meet at 10 a.m. to consider 
H.R. 2492, the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act for fiscal year 
1996, which is subject to a rule.
  We will then consider H.R. 2491, the fiscal year 1996 budget 
reconciliation, which is also subject to a rule. Members are also 
reminded that conference reports may be brought to the floor at any 
time.

  Mr. Speaker, there will be no legislative business on Friday of next 
week.
  I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for giving us the 
information.
  Mr. Speaker, on the reconciliation bill for next week, to our 
knowledge it has not even been filed yet. We are wondering over here 
when we can expect it next week.
  Mr. ARMEY. If the gentleman will continue to yield, Mr. Speaker, the 
gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Kasich], the chairman of the Committee on the 
Budget, will file that bill tomorrow during the pro forma session.
  Mr. BONIOR. I assume the gentleman expects it to come up sometime in 
the latter part of next week, would that be relatively accurate?
  Mr. ARMEY. We expect to take the rule up on the floor on Wednesday, 
and take up the bill on Thursday.
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, since it is the only major bill that we will 
be taking up next week, I hope we can expect to have sufficient debate 
time on that. I would request that from my friend, the gentleman from 
Texas. It is, as he knows, one of the major bills of the legislative 
sessions, and it is far-reaching. We hope that we will be afforded a 
little bit more time than we had on this bill today. We think it was 
woefully inadequate to have debated this Medicare bill for just 3 
hours. We hope the gentleman from Texas will find sufficient time for 
us to have a full and thorough debate on this.
  The other question I had, just one other one for my friend, the 
gentleman from Texas, is an earlier version of the floor schedule 
indicated that we would be considering the Glass-Steagall banking bill. 
I notice it has disappeared. I am just wondering when we can expect to 
see that particular piece of legislation.
  Mr. ARMEY. I thank the gentleman. The gentleman is absolutely 
correct, the budget reconciliation bill, which we will consider on 
Thursday, is an important piece of legislation. We wanted to be sure 
that in fact we had an opportunity to talk about it for a great deal of 
time, and in consideration of that interest, we did postpone Glass-
Steagall until a date to be determined later.
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his remarks, and I 
wish him a very pleasant weekend in his district. I think we are all 
looking forward to going back home and explaining our actions today on 
Medicare. I thank the gentleman.
  Mr. ARMEY. I thank the gentleman. I know I am excited about going 
home.

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