[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 96 (Wednesday, June 26, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H6905]
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  REQUEST TO LIMIT FURTHER CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 3666, DEPARTMENTS OF 
  VETERANS AFFAIRS AND HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND INDEPENDENT 
                   AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1997

  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that 
during further consideration of H.R. 3666 in the Committee of the Whole 
pursuant to House Resolution 456, the bill be considered as read; and 
no amendment be in order except for the following amendments, which 
shall be considered as read, shall not be subject to amendment or to a 
demand for a division of the question in the House or in the Committee 
of the Whole, and shall be debatable for the time specified, equally 
divided and controlled by the proponent and a Member opposed:
  An amendment offered by Mr. Koble for 60 minutes;
  An amendment offered by Mr. Gutknecht for 20 minutes;
  An amendment offered by Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas for 10 minutes;
  An amendment offered by Mr. Kingston  for 10 minutes;
  An amendment offered by Mr. Markey for 40 minutes;
  An amendment offered by Mr. Roemer for 20 minutes;
  An amendment offered by Mr. Weller for 10 minutes; and
  An amendment offered by Mr. Orton for 10 minutes.
  The CHAIRMAN. Is there objections to the request of the gentleman 
from California?

                              {time}  1730

  Mr. BOEHLERT. Reserving the right to object, Mr. Speaker, how do we 
address the Boehlert amendment, which will serve as a substitute for 
the Markey amendment?
  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. BOEHLERT. I yield to the gentleman from California.
  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, it would not be in order.
  If I could verbalize a minor little amendment to this list, at the 
point of the Markey amendment, with the exception of one amendment to 
the Markey amendment, within the time limit of 40 minutes by Mr. 
Boehlert.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Boehner). Is there objection to the 
request of the gentleman from California?
  Mr. MARKEY. Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to object, I yield to 
the gentleman from California [Mr. Lewis].
  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, I will give the gentleman the 
time, if he would like. What the gentleman wants to do is eliminate all 
these limitations on time in order not to have this amendment come 
forward. If we eliminate all the limitations on time, surely we will 
get there eventually and the amendment will come forward anyway.
  Mr. MARKEY. Mr. Speaker, it is difficult to agree to a unanimous-
consent request which makes an amendment to the Markey amendment, being 
Markey, when the amendment has not even been shared with Markey as a 
way of ensuring that the unanimous-consent request could be done in an 
amicable way and in a bipartisan fashion seeking to resolve the issue. 
So I would ask if the gentleman could withhold briefly and the 
gentleman from New York perhaps could share the amendment since the 
Markey amendment is already well known.
  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman will continue 
to yield, I would say the gentleman, I think, makes a very important 
point. And I frankly would love to see the amendment to the Markey 
amendment myself. Therefore, we are going to withhold on this list 
until that kind of courtesy is shown and we will return to this request 
for unanimous consent at another time.
  Mr. BOEHLERT. Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman will yield under his 
reservation of objection, if we have the current iteration of the 
Markey amendment, it is a movable target. There have been so many 
adjustments in the past 24 hours, I am not sure what we are talking 
about in terms of the Markey amendment. I would be glad to share my 
amendment.
  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, I would suggest we come back to 
this.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from California withdraws his 
unanimous-consent request.

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