[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 42 (Thursday, April 10, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H1405-H1406]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    REQUEST FOR LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM

  (Mr. BONIOR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, I wish to seek guidance from my colleagues 
on the other side of the aisle about the schedule for the remainder of 
the day and next week.
  Mr. Speaker, Federal law requires that Congress complete its budget 
by next Tuesday, and we are all waiting to understand if we are going 
to meet that deadline. Also, it has been an unusual week that we have 
had here.
  We have had bills that we considered only on suspension, but one of 
the most important bills on the schedule was pulled, and that bill was 
to eliminate the mortgage insurance for many

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American families. That bill was approved almost unanimously in a 
bipartisan vote in committee. We want to know why it was pulled from 
the floor and why it is not on the schedule next week.
  So are we going to move to the budget? Law requires that we have a 
15th of April deadline. What is the problem? And second, if that is not 
going to happen, we want to know why this mortgage interest bill was 
pulled.
  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. BONIOR. I yield to the gentleman from Massachusetts.
  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, I will try as a member of 
the Committee on Banking and Financial Services, and I participated in 
working on that bill which passed 36 to 1 that was sponsored by a very 
distinguished Republican Member from Utah and, in the other body, by a 
Republican Senator from New York, and it was aimed at protecting 
consumers.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. 
Bonior] has expired.

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