[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 207 (Friday, December 22, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H15608]
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  PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 136, FURTHER 
              CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS, FISCAL YEAR 1996

  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Appropriations be discharged from the further 
consideration of House Joint Resolution 136, making further continuing 
appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, and for 
other purposes; and that it shall be in order at any time to consider 
the joint resolution in the House; that the joint resolution be 
debatable for not to exceed 20 minutes, to be equally divided and 
controlled by myself and the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Obey]; that 
all points of order against the joint resolution and against its 
consideration be waived; and that the previous question shall be 
considered as ordered on the joint resolution to final passage without 
intervening motion, except one motion to recommit.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Louisiana?

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  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to object, I do not intend 
to object. I simply want to again reinforce what the gentleman from 
Louisiana just said; that this is a way to deal with the CR issues 
without taking the full hour of debate which would ordinarily be taken 
in the interest of accommodating Members.
  I would ask, however, that we could have a modicum of attention so 
that we do not lose that time by having the Chair gavel people to 
silence while we are trying to wade through it.
  Mr. Speaker, I withdraw my reservation of objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Dreier). Is there objection to the 
request of the gentleman from Louisiana?
  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to object, I do so only 
to ask if my understanding is correct that we may well have additional 
votes?
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, If the gentleman would yield, I would inform 
the gentleman there will be two additional votes.
  Mr. HOYER. Two additional votes. So that Members who may have thought 
that that was the last vote, ought to be apprised of the fact that 
there are at least two additional votes that can be expected.
  Mr. Speaker, I withdraw my reservation of objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Louisiana?
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to object, I want to 
clear something up here. It was my understanding that there was an 
House Joint Resolution 134 that was going to come back over here that 
was going to include veterans benefits along with these. I do not see 
those in here. What is happening?
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. SOLOMON. Continuing my reservation of objection, I yield to the 
gentleman from Louisiana.
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I would say to the gentleman from New 
York that the matter is pending in the Senate, and I would tell the 
gentleman that it is pending objections in the Senate because there was 
an attempt to put additional extraneous material on this motion. So 
this matter goes forward on the House's initiative.
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, continuing my reservation, is there any 
chance that this might pass the Senate and the veterans CR be held up?
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman would continue to 
yield, that is strictly up to the Senate. At this point the Senate has 
complete jurisdiction over that motion. We are hopeful that they will 
send it over here and we can take quick action. Or if they would accept 
what we did, we would not have to, we could just send it to the 
President.
  Mr. SOLOMON. So there is the possibility they will accept both of 
these, then?
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. That is correct.
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, I have some reservations about this, 
because I worry they may possibly accept this and then turn down the 
veterans CR over there, but I guess we have to take them at their good 
faith. And let us give them a warning they had better pass them both.
  Mr. Speaker, I withdraw my reservation of objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Louisiana?
  There was no objection.

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