[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 13147-13148]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                          LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM

  (Mr. ARMEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, I would like to discuss the evening's 
schedule.
  Mr. Speaker, we have just risen from the Agricultural Appropriations 
bill. We will come back to that at a later time.
  I should tell the Members we have kind of got good news and bad news 
for them. Let me start with the good news. The good news is that there 
is a high probability that we can complete our work some time this 
evening or early tomorrow morning, depending on how well things go.
  The bad news is that, in order to do that and have tomorrow off, we 
would have to be willing to work late and work our way through this.

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  Mr. Speaker, in just a few minutes, the distinguished chairman of the 
Committee on Appropriations will be filing the MILCON conference report 
and be asking unanimous consent to take it up. Assuming that his 
unanimous consent request is agreed to, then go directly in that bill 
and complete that bill as time requires.
  Then following the completion of that work, we would take up the 
doctors' collective bargaining rule and then move right on to that 
bill; and upon the completion of that bill, our work would be 
completed.
  It is, of course, my fondest hope and my expectation that the 
unanimous consent will be agreed to. If for some reason that is not the 
case, we would then go to the doctors' collective bargaining rule and 
continue to work on our best effort to get the MILCON conference report 
to the floor right after we complete the rule. We would then, of 
course, finish up the evening with the collective bargaining.
  The urgency here is that we need to complete the MILCON conference 
report, make it available for the other body for their consideration in 
the morning. So we will build our remaining schedule to the evening 
around the fate of that unanimous consent. That is the announcement.

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