[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 60 (Thursday, April 29, 1999)]
[House]
[Pages H2516-H2517]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM

  (Mr. MENENDEZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MENENDEZ. Madam Speaker, I take this time to inquire about next 
week's schedule from the distinguished majority leader.
  Mr. ARMEY. Madam Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. MENENDEZ. Madam Speaker, I yield to the distinguished majority 
leader for purposes of discussing next week's schedule.
  Mr. ARMEY. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Madam Speaker, I am pleased to announce that we have concluded our 
legislative business for the week. On Monday, May 3, the House will 
meet at 2 o'clock p.m. for a pro forma session. There will be no 
legislative business and no votes on that day.
  On Tuesday, May 4, the House will meet at 12:30 p.m. for morning hour 
and 2 p.m. for legislative business. The House will consider a number 
of bills under suspension of the rules, a list of which will be 
distributed to Members' offices. Members should note that we anticipate 
votes after 2 p.m. on Tuesday.
  On Wednesday, May 5, and Thursday, May 6, the House will take up the 
following measures, both of which will be subject to rules: The 
emergency Kosovo supplemental bill for fiscal year 1999 and H.R. 833, 
the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1999. It is our hope that the conference 
report on H.R. 4, the National Missile Defense bill, will also be 
available next week.
  Madam Speaker, we should finish legislative business and have Members 
on their way home to their families on Thursday, May 6.
  Mr. MENENDEZ. Madam Speaker, if the majority leader would allow a 
question, could the majority leader tell us on which day next week the 
Kosovo supplemental will be on the floor and for what amount it will 
be?
  Mr. ARMEY. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for his inquiry. Let 
me say I can say with a high degree of certainty that the legislation 
will be on the floor on Thursday of next week, and, of course, it will 
be up to the Committee on Appropriations to report it. I cannot give 
the figure in terms of its amount until after the committee has its 
markup, I think later today.
  Mr. MENENDEZ. If the majority leader would answer one other question: 
Is it the majority leader's intention, or does he know if that 
supplemental will include a supplemental for Central America and for 
the farming community in the country?
  Mr. ARMEY. I thank the gentleman for his inquiry. As the gentleman 
knows, we had that legislation pass through the House. We have gone to 
conference with the Senate. We wait upon the Senate with respect to 
that earlier supplemental report that has the inclusions that the 
gentleman speaks of. It is our anticipation that the week following 
next we would have that back in conference, as well as the Kosovo work, 
and we should be able to complete all supplemental work on both bills 
by the end of the week following next.
  Mr. MENENDEZ. I thank the majority leader. For many of us it is a 
real concern, the Central American farming package. While we face one 
emergency, we have another emergency with 1 million people to the south 
of our border who we are concerned about in the context of immigration 
and in the context of disease and the context of helping to rebuild 
their countries. We would certainly hope that we could in a bipartisan 
way work expeditiously to make sure that that emergency is equally as 
resolved.
  Mr. ARMEY. Madam Speaker, I appreciate the gentleman's remarks.

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