[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4805]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                          LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM

  (Mr. BONIOR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from California 
(Mr. DREIER) for the purposes of inquiring of the schedule for the 
remainder of the week and for next week.
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I thank my very dear friend from Mount 
Clemens for yielding, the very distinguished minority whip.
  I am very pleased to announce to the House that we have completed our 
legislative business for the week and that the House will not be in 
session tomorrow. We will meet for legislative business on Monday, 
April 10 at 12:30 p.m. for morning hour, and at 2 o'clock for 
legislative business. We will consider a number of bills under 
suspension of the rules, a list of which will be distributed to 
Members' offices tomorrow.
  Mr. Speaker, we expect that the other body will be able to complete 
consideration of the budget tomorrow. That being the case, after 
suspensions on Monday, we expect to go to conference on the budget 
resolution. Now, on Monday, no recorded votes are expected before 6 
p.m., and that is basically what we are looking for at this point.
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from California. I 
just have a couple of brief questions this afternoon. Are any late 
nights expected next week?
  Mr. DREIER. How many late nights are expected next week.
  As the gentleman knows, we are anxiously looking forward to the 
Easter District Work Period, and we have conference reports coming up. 
We have a number of measures that we are expecting, and I cannot tell 
the gentleman right now as to how late we will be in the evening.
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, how about next Friday?
  Mr. DREIER. Next Friday, we are hoping that we will be able to pass a 
conference agreement on the budget resolution, and we would very much 
like to do it before Friday, but there is no guarantee that that will 
happen.
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, I understand, and I thank my colleague for 
that. So we do not obviously know what day the budget conference will 
be brought up. When it is finished, I gather.
  Mr. DREIER. That is what we are hearing.
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, what day will the Taxpayer Bill of Rights be 
considered, if I might ask my colleague?
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, we are scheduling that, we hope, for Tuesday 
of next week.
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, what kind of rule will be given?
  Mr. DREIER. That is up to the committee on which the gentleman used 
to sit.
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, I think the gentleman who is the chairman of 
that committee might have some influence on that procedure, and I am 
hoping that he might share that with us.
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, as a former member of the committee, he is 
certainly entitled to provide us with any recommendations that he would 
like to offer as to how we effectively deal with it. We are planning to 
bring the measure up, and I am not sure exactly what the structure will 
be at this juncture.
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, how about the Sunset Tax Code? When will 
that occur?
  Mr. DREIER. The Sunset Tax Code, we are hoping to do that on 
Thursday; and again, we do not know exactly what the structure for 
consideration of that will be either.
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague.
  Mr. DREIER. We would like to allow the Committee on Rules to work its 
will as we proceed with the deliberative process here, as my friend, a 
former member of the committee, knows very well.
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, I am sure the Committee on Rules will work 
its will.
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend for yielding, and I hope 
he has a wonderful weekend and is able to get back to Mount Clemens.
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, I hope the gentleman gets back to 
California, and if not, enjoy the tulips. Are they not gorgeous? Here 
on the Capitol grounds, they are fabulous.
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, they are spectacular this time of year.

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