[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17286]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                          LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, I have asked to address the House for 1 
minute to inquire about next week's schedule.
  Mr. BLUNT. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. DOGGETT. I yield to the gentleman from Missouri.
  Mr. BLUNT. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Texas for 
yielding, and I am pleased to announce that the House has completed its 
legislative business for the week. There will be no vote in the House 
tomorrow. The House will next meet on Tuesday, September 12, at 12:30 
p.m. for morning hour and 2 p.m. for legislative business, following a 
pro forma session meeting at noon on Monday.
  We will consider a number of bills under suspension of the rules, a 
list of which will be distributed to the Members' offices tomorrow. On 
Tuesday, no recorded votes are expected before 6 p.m.
  On Wednesday and the balance of the week, the House will consider the 
following measures:
  H.R. 4461, the District of Columbia Appropriations Act;
  H.R. 4516, the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act Conference 
Report;
  And a veto override on H.R. 4810, the Marriage Tax Penalty Relief 
Reconciliation Act.
  The schedule will be released tomorrow, and the whip notice will 
reflect the entire schedule for next week.
  I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Mr. DOGGETT. Reclaiming my time, Mr. Speaker, it looks like there are 
some rather familiar titles here, and I am wondering if the gentleman 
could indicate, other than the addition of the suspensions, whether we 
expect anything new next week or just what we did not reach this week.
  Mr. BLUNT. If the gentleman will continue to yield, with the 
exception of suspensions, and barring some discussion with committees, 
which we will certainly have, as we need to get our work done this 
month, this looks like it is the schedule for next week.
  Mr. DOGGETT. With this short list, would the gentleman anticipate we 
would have any late nights, any night next week?
  Mr. BLUNT. I would not anticipate we would have any late nights next 
week. Of course, we do need to get our work done, and that would be 
subject to change, but at this point we would be looking at those votes 
after 6 p.m. on Tuesday and then no late evenings next week.
  Mr. DOGGETT. Does the gentleman have any indication of which day we 
would expect the vote on the marriage penalty veto override attempt?
  Mr. BLUNT. I think we are anticipating that vote would be on 
Wednesday.
  Mr. DOGGETT. And with reference to next Friday, does the gentleman 
anticipate whether we will be able to get a notice, as we have been 
today, that there would be no votes next Friday?
  Mr. BLUNT. I think it is early to make that determination. We are 
still working with the White House and the committee chairmen on a 
number of different issues; of course working with the other body to 
get conference reports done as quickly as possible. I cannot say what 
we will be doing on Friday.
  I think we ought to prepare to be here on Friday, but certainly we 
could very well find out this time next week we are in the same 
situation we are in right now as we wait for these conference reports 
to reach some ability to get to the floor and to the White House.
  Mr. DOGGETT. I believe the previously published schedule had us out 
by at least 2 p.m. next Friday. The gentleman would not anticipate we 
would go beyond that?
  Mr. BLUNT. I would anticipate we would be out no later than 2 p.m. on 
Friday.
  Mr. DOGGETT. I thank the gentleman for his courtesy and wish him a 
good weekend.
  Mr. BLUNT. I thank the gentleman for yielding.




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