[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 102 (Friday, July 20, 2001)]
[House]
[Pages H4367-H4368]
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                          LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM

  (Mr. BONIOR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, I rise for the purpose of inquiring of the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Armey), the majority leader, the schedule for 
the remainder of the week and for next week.
  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. BONIOR. I yield to the gentleman from Texas.
  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to announce that the House has 
completed its legislative business for the week.
  The House will meet for legislative business on Monday, July 23, at 
12:30 p.m. for morning hour and 2 o'clock p.m. for legislative 
business. The House will consider a number of measures under suspension 
of the rules, a list of which will be distributed to Members' offices 
later today. On Monday, no recorded votes are expected before 6 o'clock 
p.m.
  On Tuesday and the balance of the week, the House will consider the 
following measures: We will complete consideration of H.R. 2506, the 
Foreign Operations Appropriations Act; H.J. Res. 55, concerning trade 
relations with respect to Vietnam; the Treasury and Postal 
Appropriations Act; and the Patients' Bill of Rights. And, Mr. Speaker, 
we will also complete work on Veterans Affairs, Housing, Urban 
Development and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act.
  Members should understand that this is going to be another busy week, 
and we should expect some late evenings next week.
  Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, I might ask my colleague, when does he 
expect the Patients' Bill of Rights bill to come up next week?
  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman will yield, I thank the 
gentleman for the inquiry. I would expect us to see that bill on the 
floor on Thursday of next week, probably late in the day.
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, how about the energy bill? When can we 
expect to see the energy bill?
  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman will again yield, I think 
the committees have completed their work on that. We will probably work 
with the Committee on Rules and the other committees on that, and we 
would expect it the week following next.
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, is Fast Track coming up before the recess, 
and does the gentleman expect a markup in the Committee on Ways and 
Means next week on Fast Track?
  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman will continue to yield, I do 
expect that markup to take place; and we do anticipate that being on 
the floor before we retire for the August recess.

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  Mr. BONIOR. Finally, I would ask my colleague from Texas if he has 
any plans, or if the leadership has discussed, bringing up the railroad 
retirement bill to the floor. As the gentleman may recall, it had very 
strong bipartisan support in the previous Congress.
  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for asking, and I thank 
the gentleman for continuing to yield.
  Mr. Speaker, the Railroad Retirement Act that the gentleman from 
Michigan asked about is important legislation; and we have had 
extensive discussions about it in our leadership meetings and in our 
planning meetings. While I am confident that we will have this bill 
under consideration before we complete our work for the year, we have 
no immediate plans for its schedule.
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman.

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