[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 48 (Thursday, April 25, 2002)]
[House]
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                          LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM

  (Ms. PELOSI asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, I rise for the purpose of inquiring about 
the schedule for next week, and I am pleased to yield to the gentleman 
from Ohio (Mr. Portman) with those inquiries.
  Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding, and I 
thank her for her inquiry.
  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to announce that the House has completed 
its legislative business for the week. The House will next meet for 
legislative business on Tuesday, April 30 at 12:30 p.m. for morning 
hour and 2 o'clock for legislative business. On Tuesday, the majority 
leader will schedule a number of measures under suspension of the 
rules, a list of which will be distributed to the Members' offices 
tomorrow. Recorded votes will be postponed until 6:30 p.m.
  For Wednesday and Thursday, the majority leader has scheduled a 
number of measures, including H.R. 2871, the Export-Import Bank 
Reauthorization Act of 2002; H.R. 2604, the Multinational Development 
Banks Authorization Act; H.J. Res. 84, a resolution disapproving the 
action taken by the President under section 201 of the Trade Act of 
1974; and H.R. 3994, the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act of 2002.
  Additionally, Speaker Hastert advises us that he may be ready to name 
conferees to the election reform legislation which passed both the 
House and the Senate; and, therefore, the majority leader will likely 
schedule a motion to go to conference on that bill next week.
  I thank the gentlewoman for yielding.
  Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for his comments. 
Reclaiming my time, I wanted to know if the gentleman could be more 
specific about which days these four bills will come up. I know the 
gentleman said on Wednesday and Thursday, does the gentleman have any 
more specific information about which days each of these bills might be 
taken up?

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  Mr. PORTMAN. If the gentlewoman will continue to yield, I believe the 
first three measures, which is the Ex-Im Bank, the multinational 
development banks, and the resolution of disapproval, would be on 
Wednesday, and the fourth measure we mentioned, the Afghanistan Freedom 
Support Act, is likely to be on Thursday.
  Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, could the gentleman shed some light on what 
day the Nevada nuclear waste bill would be considered, and will it be 
considered under suspension or under a rule?
  Mr. PORTMAN. The Governor's veto of the Yucca Mountain legislation 
was taken up by the Committee on Energy and Commerce today and marked 
up. My understanding is that there need to be 5 legislative days prior 
to its consideration in the House, and therefore the vote would not 
take place next week, but likely the week after.
  I do not know that the decision has been made yet as to whether it 
will be under suspension or under regular order.
  Ms. PELOSI. I thank the gentleman for that information.
  One further question, if the gentleman could tell us if he knows or 
is able to report on when the supplemental is expected to come to the 
floor.
  Mr. PORTMAN. Our understanding from the gentleman from Florida 
(Chairman Young) of the Committee on Appropriations is that it seems 
likely it will be marked up next week, or shortly. When it comes to the 
floor is still uncertain, but it would not be coming up next week.
  Ms. PELOSI. I thank the gentleman for the information and for his 
courtesy.

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