[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4353]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM

  (Ms. PELOSI asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, I take this time for the purpose of 
inquiring about the schedule for next week.
  I am pleased to yield to the distinguished gentleman from Ohio (Mr. 
Portman).
  Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding.
  I am pleased to announce that the House has now completed its 
legislative business for the week. The House will next meet for 
legislative business on Tuesday, April 16, at 12:30 p.m. for morning 
hour, and 2 o'clock p.m. for legislative business. The House will 
consider a number of measures under suspension of the rules, a list of 
which will be distributed to Members' offices tomorrow. On Tuesday, 
recorded votes will be postponed until 6:30 p.m.
  For Wednesday and Thursday, the majority leader has scheduled H.R. 
476, the Child Custody Protection Act. The majority leader is also 
working with the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means to bring 
legislation to the floor next week to repeal the sunsets on the Bush 
tax relief plan that was passed by Congress last year.
  Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, reclaiming my time, I thank the gentleman 
for the information. I would just like to inquire if the gentleman 
knows which day the tax bill will be scheduled?
  Mr. PORTMAN. If the gentlewoman will yield further, it looks as 
though the tax bill will be scheduled for Thursday, and the child 
custody bill will likely be scheduled for Wednesday.
  Ms. PELOSI. Will the legislation on pensions from the Committee on 
Financial Services come to the floor next week?
  Mr. PORTMAN. It is my understanding that the Committee on Financial 
Services marked that legislation up today. It is being looked at now. 
It is unlikely to come up next week. More likely it would come up in 
later weeks. But we are still looking at the legislation.
  Ms. PELOSI. Is there any other legislation that is expected to come 
to the floor, apart from the two bills that the gentleman mentioned?
  Mr. PORTMAN. There is no other legislation, other than the 
suspensions on Tuesday, that is anticipated at this time.
  Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for the information.

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