[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 215 (Friday, December 18, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H7274]
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                            SCHEDULE UPDATE

  (Mr. HOYER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I want to notify all the Members, and we will 
certainly do that by email as well, that the negotiators who are trying 
to come to an agreement between the two parties, and the House and the 
Senate as well, are still working very hard to reach agreement both on 
the omnibus so that we will be able to fund the government through 
September 30 of this coming year and on the response to COVID-19, both 
from a health standpoint and from an economic standpoint. We are 
hopeful that they will reach agreement in the near future. They have 
not reached one yet. There are still some significant issues 
outstanding.
  In light of that, I am announcing that there will be no votes 
tomorrow. Even if an agreement were reached late tonight, the 
administrative work necessary to memorialize that agreement in a bill 
would take at least 18 hours or thereabouts, so that the first--next 
votes that would be anticipated would be at 1 p.m. on Sunday.
  This is a change. Some people had heard 2, and I had used 2, but we 
are accelerating that to 1 p.m. on Sunday.
  Members will receive 2 hours' notice for that vote, so that would 
mean, if it is at 1 p.m., you will receive a notice at 11 a.m. That 
ought to give time for Members, obviously, most of whom are going to be 
staying in town if they don't live close by, to go to worship and then 
come to the House floor.
  But no votes before 1 p.m. on Sunday, this coming Sunday, and notice 
will be given 2 hours prior to 1 p.m., so by 11 a.m.

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