[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 177 (Thursday, November 9, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H12064-H12065]
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                          LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM

  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to address the House 
for 1 minute.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Hobson). Without objection, the 
gentleman is recognized for 1 minute.
  There was no objection.
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, I rise for purposes of engaging the 
gentleman from Texas [Mr. Armey], the distinguished majority leader, in 
a colloquy.
  I ask my friend from Texas what he foresees for this evening and 
tomorrow.
  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. BONIOR. I yield to the gentleman from Texas.
  Mr. ARMEY. I thank the gentleman.
  Mr. Speaker, this is the last vote tonight. Hopefully, the Senate 
will pass both the continuing resolution and the debt ceiling extension 
tonight. The Committee on Rules will meet tonight to grant rules on 
both of these measures so that they can be considered on the House 
floor tomorrow in accordance with the usual House procedures.
  I intend in just a moment to ask unanimous consent that we reconvene 
the House at 9 a.m. tomorrow so that we can take up both these 
measures, and it would be my hope that, of course depending upon how 
things go, that we would be able, given that earlier beginning, to 
adjourn the week's work at 2 o'clock or perhaps even earlier, depending 
on what we receive back from the Senate and how we must deal with it.
  I can state, Mr. Speaker, that we will have no more votes tonight, 
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if, in fact, the unanimous consent request is not objected to, we will 
reconvene at 9 a.m. in the morning.
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, can the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Armey], 
the majority leader, tell us when he expects the first vote on Monday?
  Mr. ARMEY. If the gentleman will continue to yield, Mr. Speaker, I 
would tell the gentleman that we should be prepared to be back by 12 
noon on Monday for votes.
  Mr. BONIOR. Well, Mr. Speaker, I would tell my friend, the gentleman 
from Texas [Mr. Armey] that I hope my colleagues on this side of the 
aisle do not object to his request for a 9 a.m. start tomorrow, but I 
must be very frank and honest with my friend from Texas and say that 
the Democrats are willing to do a clean continuing resolution and a 
clean debt ceiling. The President is willing to sign it. We could get 
it all done this evening.
  These extraneous measures on these bills that have no place in these 
bills are putting the financial security of this country at risk and we 
think it is irresponsible and we need our Republican colleagues to know 
that and we need to express that this evening. So I would hope my 
colleagues on this side of the aisle would not object to the unanimous 
consent request of the gentleman from Texas of going in at 9 o'clock 
tomorrow.
  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, I wonder if the gentleman would yield, if he 
still has the time, because I do appreciate the points he made and I do 
understand the position of the minority. And if I might make an 
announcement to the Republicans on the gentleman's time, I should 
announce to the Republican Members of the House that there will be a 
conference in HC-5 at 5:45, and the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. 
Bonior], of course, is excused from that conference.
  Mr. BONIOR. Well, Mr. Speaker, after my last remarks and the reaction 
I got, I do not think I would want to come anyway.
  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman.

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