[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 61 (Thursday, May 14, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H3298]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                ANNOUNCEMENT OF RULES COMMITTEE MEETING

  (Mr. SOLOMON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, the Committee on Rules is scheduled to meet 
in 3 minutes today to consider a rule providing general debate only for 
H.R. 3616, the Defense Authorization Bill for Fiscal Year 1999.
  We will meet at 3 o'clock next Tuesday to make in order other 
amendments to that legislation. The rule that we will put out today 
will be for general debate only.
  Mr. Speaker, additionally, unfortunately, the minority leadership has 
decided to personally attack Members of the majority side this morning 
on the House floor. Also, there has been a decision by the minority to 
oppose on two occasions immunity for four witnesses which the 
Department of Justice approved before a House investigative committee.
  Due to these unfortunate circumstances which the minority has brought 
to the House floor, the Committee on Rules will add to its afternoon 
agenda the following measures: H.Res. 432, expressing the sense of the 
House of Representatives concerning the President's assertion of 
executive privilege; and H.Res. 433, by myself, calling upon the 
President of the United States to urge full cooperation by his former 
political appointees and friends and their associates with 
congressional investigations.
  Mr. Speaker, these measures will be considered on the House floor 
next week under an appropriate rule. Since the Democratic leadership 
has regrettably decided to embroil the floor in this kind of partisan 
and personal attacks, the House will consider resolutions next week 
which will bring some perspective to the current discussion of ethics 
in Washington, D.C.

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