[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 185 (Sunday, November 19, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H13345]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM

  (Mr. GEPHARDT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GEPHARDT. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. 
Kasich], distinguished chairman of the Committee on the Budget, to ask 
about the schedule for tomorrow.
  Mr. KASICH. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding to me.
  I think we are going to hear some groans across the country from our 
friends that are watching, but there will be no votes tomorrow before 
5.
  There will be a continuing resolution, through a vote on a continuing 
resolution, through December 15. We will also consider the Balanced 
Budget Act of 1995.
  We will then bring up the VA-HUD conference report and then finally 
the Lobby Disclosure Act.
  Mr. GEPHARDT. Mr. Speaker, does the gentleman know if there is any 
chance that we could finish our business for the week by tomorrow 
night?
  Mr. KASICH. Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman will continue to yield, we 
would hope that by late tomorrow night we will finish our business and 
that Members would be able to go home early Tuesday morning.
  I would doubt we would finish tomorrow night in time to get out, but 
they would be done tomorrow night, we hope, and then everybody would be 
free to go home Tuesday morning.
  Mr. GEPHARDT. Mr. Speaker, and then we would be returning, I take it, 
on the Monday or Tuesday after Thanksgiving?
  Mr. KASICH. Mr. Speaker, that is exactly right. We will be able to 
announce whether it will be the Monday following Thanksgiving or the 
Tuesday.
  Mr. GEPHARDT. Mr. Speaker, to reiterate, Members who plan to leave 
Washington early Tuesday morning and get a plane to get home for the 
Thanksgiving holiday?
  Mr. KASICH. Mr. Speaker, now that we have got a resolution of this 
crisis and people are going back to work, as the minority leader knows, 
we are going to have some intense and difficult negotiations, but we 
are over the biggest hurdle. I think it is just great news for the 
country.
  Mr. GEPHARDT. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for his hard work 
and all the others who were involved today.

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