[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 35 (Thursday, March 14, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H2305-H2306]
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 ask for this time for the purposes of 
asking the distinguished chief deputy whip about the schedule for this 
week and next.
  I yield to the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Hastert].
  Mr. HASTERT. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Michigan for 
yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to announce that the House has finished all 
legislative business for the week. The House will next meet on Monday, 
March 18, at 2 p.m. in a pro forma session. There will be no recorded 
votes on Monday.
  On Tuesday, March 19, 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. on Tuesday, 
March 19.
  Mr. Speaker, on Tuesday we will consider five bills under suspension 
of the rules: H.R. 2937, reimbursement of former White House Travel 
Office employees; House Concurrent Resolution 148, expressing the sense 
of Congress that the United States is committed to the military 
stability of the Taiwan Straits; H.R. 2739, the House of 
Representatives Administrative Reform Technical Correction Act; and two 
House Oversight resolutions adopting congressional accountability 
regulations.

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  After consideration of the suspensions and for the balance of the 
week, the House will consider H.R. 2202, the Immigration in the 
National Interest Act of 1995.
  Mr. Speaker, I expect toward the latter half of next week the House 
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also consider an omnibus appropriations bill for fiscal year 1996. The 
House should finish business and have Members on their way home to 
their families by 2 p.m. on Friday, March 22.
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, I have one inquiry of my friend from 
Illinois, and that relates to the immigration bill, which he referred 
to in his statement.
  The Committee on Rules is now meeting on the rule for that particular 
bill, and one of the most important pieces or one of the most important 
amendments that is being offered up in the Committee on Rules is a 
bipartisan amendment being offered by the gentleman from Kansas [Mr. 
Brownback], the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Chrysler], and the 
gentleman from California [Mr. Berman].
  My question to my friend is, will that amendment be made in order? It 
is probably, if not the most important one, one of the most important 
amendments in that bill, and it deals with the question of illegal 
immigrants separate from legal immigrants. It is better known as the 
amendment that would split the bill and in light of the fact that the 
Senate Republicans yesterday did so in the other body, I would hope 
that we would be able to have a debate on that particular amendment on 
the floor.
  I yield to my friend from Illinois for a response.
  Mr. HASTERT. I thank the gentleman for yielding. It would be 
speculation on my part to try to presuppose what the distinguished 
Committee on Rules would do. I really do not have an idea of what that 
final decision would be.
  Mr. BONIOR. I thank the gentleman.

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