[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 30 (Thursday, March 7, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H1964-H1965]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM

  (Mr. BONIOR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the distinguished majority 
leader, the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Armey], for the purpose of 
ascertaining the schedule for the rest of the week and next week.
  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, I am happy to announce that we have concluded our 
legislative business for the week.
  On Monday, March 11, the House will not be in session. On Tuesday, 
March 12, the House will meet at 12:30 p.m. for morning hour and 2 p.m. 
for legislative business. Members should be advised that there will not 
be any recorded votes before 5 p.m.
  As our first order of business on Tuesday, the House will consider a 
bill on the corrections day calendar: H.R. 2685, to repeal the Medicaid 
and Medicare coverage data bank.
  We will then take up three bills on the suspension calendar: H.R. 
2972, the Securities and Exchange Commission reauthorization; H.R. 
2276, the Federal Aviation Administration Revitalization Act of 1995; 
and House Joint Resolution 78, Bi-State Development Agency by the 
States of Missouri and Illinois.
  After consideration of the suspensions, the House will turn to the 
conference report for H.R. 1561, the American Overseas Interests Act, 
which is subject to a rule. We also hope to begin consideration of H.R. 
2703, the Effective Death Penalty and Public Safety Act, which is also 
subject to a rule. It is our hope to get through the rule and general 
debate before adjourning for the evening around 7 or 8 p.m.
  On Wednesday, March 13, the House will meet at 11 a.m. to finish 
consideration of the crime bill.
  On Thursday, March 14, the House will meet at 10 a.m. It is our hope 
that conference reports for the debt limit and Second Balanced Budget 
Downpayment Act will be ready for floor consideration by then.

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  We should finish business and have Members on their way home to their 
families by 6 p.m. on Thursday March 14, and I thank the gentleman for 
yielding me this time.
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, I would ask my friend from Texas this 
question, or make this comment to him just so that he understands the 
concerns that we have in our Caucus over the retreat that we were 
scheduled to have on January 25, which had to be cancelled after votes 
on the continuing resolution for Government spending were scheduled. We 
then asked for a retreat date of March 8, which is today, and we were 
refused on that date, saying that the majority, noting that the 
calendar had been set in advance and could not be altered. I would just 
note that March 8 is not today, it is tomorrow, and I would just tell 
my colleague from Texas we could have had our retreat tomorrow, and in 
light of the fact that the schedule indeed was altered, and we hope we 
could work together on these things in the future. We have had to 
cancel it twice, and we hope that this would not happen a third time.
  With that, I thank my colleague for giving us an insight into the 
schedule for tomorrow, or the lack of schedule

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for tomorrow, and the schedule for next week.

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