[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 172 (Thursday, November 2, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H11735]
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                          LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM

  (Mr. BONIOR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, I ask for this 1 minute for the purpose of 
engaging with the distinguished majority leader to find out what the 
schedule will be like for tonight and for next week.
  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. BONIOR. I yield to the gentleman from Texas, the majority leader.
  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, we just had the last vote of the day and of 
the week. The House will not be in session tomorrow.
  Mr. Speaker, the House will meet in pro forma session on Monday, 
November 6. There will be no votes on Monday.
  On Tuesday, November 7, the House will meet at 12:30 p.m. for morning 
hour and at 2 p.m. for legislative business. The House will consider 
the following 12 bills under suspension of the rules:
  H.J. Res. 69, reappointing Homer Alfred Neal to the Smithsonian Board 
of Regents;
  H.J. Res. 110, appointing Howard H. Baker, Jr., to the Smithsonian 
Board of Regents;
  H.J. Res. 111, appointing Anne D'Harnoncourt to the Smithsonian Board 
of Regents;
  H.J. Res. 112, appointing Louis Gerstner to the Smithsonian Board of 
Regents;
  H.R. 2527, permitting electronic filing and preservation of Federal 
Election Commission reports;
  H.R. 238, providing for the protection of free-roaming horses in the 
Ozark National Scenic Riverways;
  H.R. 207, the Cleveland National Forest Land Exchange Act of 1995;
  H.R. 2437, providing for the exchange of certain lands in Gilpin 
County, Colorado;
  H.R. 1838, providing for the exchange of lands with the Water 
Conservancy District of Washington County, Utah;
  H.R. 1585, the Modoc National Forest Boundary Adjustment Act;
  H.R. 1581, land conveyance, city of Sumpter, Oregon; and
  H.R. 1163, land exchange at Fire Island National Seashore.
  After consideration of the suspensions, the House will take up the 
conference report for H.R. 1977, the Department of Interior 
Appropriations Act for fiscal year 1996.
  It should be noted, Mr. Speaker, that any recorded votes ordered will 
be postponed until 6 p.m. on Tuesday, November 7.
  On Wednesday and Thursday, Mr. Speaker, the House will meet at 10 
a.m. We plan to consider the conference reports for S. 395, the Alaska 
Power Administration Sale Act, and H.R. 1058, the Securities Litigation 
Reform Act, both of which are subject to rules.
  The House will also take up a continuing resolution for the 1996 
fiscal year, which is subject to a rule.
  Of course Members should be advised that additional conference 
reports may be brought up to the floor at any time.
  Mr. Speaker, we expect to conclude legislative business for the week 
by around 6 p.m. on Thursday, November 9. There will be no legislative 
business on Friday, November 10, in observance of Veterans Day.
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague, and I have one or two 
inquiries to my friend from Texas.
  There is, as the gentleman has stated, a very important conference 
report on the Interior bill that you have scheduled for Tuesday 
evening, and, given the lightness of the schedule on Wednesday, would 
it not be possible to move that bill to Wednesday and do it in the 
light of day instead of late in the evening on Tuesday?
  Mr. ARMEY. I thank the gentleman for making that request, but we have 
already very carefully developed the schedule for the purpose of having 
Members in attendance on Tuesday night, and there will be no change.
  Mr. BONIOR. What is the status of the product liability bill; may I 
ask my friend from Texas?
  Mr. ARMEY. If the gentleman will yield, we expect perhaps the motion 
to go to conference sometime next week.
  Mr. BONIOR. Sometime next week.
  And I note there was also another continuing resolution that the 
gentleman from Texas mentioned in his remarks, which means that I guess 
we expect that we will not meet the second deadline for finishing the 
appropriation bills, and so my question, I guess, to my friend from 
Texas would be:
  When do you expect us to do that and can you give us a sense of how 
long the extension will be?
  Mr. ARMEY. We expect to do the CR on Wednesday, and of course we 
expect to continue working on the appropriations.
  Mr. BONIOR. Have you picked a date yet?
  Mr. ARMEY. I respond to the gentleman by saying as soon as possible 
we will be bringing them back from conference.
  Mr. BONIOR. But my question was to how long the extension might be, 
the CR, through what date.
  Mr. ARMEY. The exact details of the time frame for the CR are still 
in the discussion stage. We will not have that determined until perhaps 
sometime tomorrow.
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend for his observations and 
comments.

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