[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8336]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM

  (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 rise for the purpose of inquiring of the 
deputy majority whip the schedule for the coming week.
  Mr. CANTOR. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. HOYER. I yield to the gentleman from Virginia.
  Mr. CANTOR. Mr. Speaker, the House will convene on Tuesday at 2 p.m. 
for legislative business. We will consider several measures under 
suspension of the rules. A final list of those bills will be sent to 
Members' offices by the end of the week. Any votes called on those 
measures will be rolled until 6:30 p.m.
  On Wednesday and Thursday, the House will convene at 10 a.m. for 
legislative business. We may consider additional legislation under 
suspension of the rules, as well as two bills under a rule, H.R. 1185, 
the Federal Deposit Insurance Reform Act, and H.R. 366, the Vocational 
and Technical Education For the Future Act.
  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for the information.
  Does the gentleman know which day we will consider the vocational 
education bill?
  Mr. CANTOR. We plan to consider the vocational education bill on 
Wednesday, and the deposit insurance reform bill on Thursday.
  Mr. HOYER. Can the gentleman tell me what type of rule is 
anticipated? Will it be open or modified open rules on these two bills?
  Mr. CANTOR. Mr. Speaker, I would defer that decision to the Committee 
on Rules, but believe they will make a number of amendments in order on 
each bill.
  Mr. HOYER. I thank the gentleman for that information.
  I note, Mr. Deputy Whip, that the supplemental is not on the 
announcement, is apparently not on the calendar for next week. 
Obviously this is a very important bill. It is a very important bill to 
our country and our troops. We passed this bill some time ago. Can the 
gentleman tell us when that bill might be before us?
  Mr. CANTOR. Mr. Speaker, I tell the gentleman from Maryland, the 
minority whip, that the conference committee has met a number of times 
this week and I believe they are narrowing in on agreement. The 
gentleman from California (Chairman Lewis) has informed us that his 
goal is to reach an agreement with the Senate in time to file a 
conference report on Monday which would allow the House to consider it 
as early as Wednesday.
  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for that information. 
Before we conclude, I would like to ask a couple of questions. I 
understand the gentleman may not know the answers.
  Our side, as you probably know, is very concerned about what 
transpired this week on the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act. 
We are very concerned because three Members on our side offered 
amendments. Those amendments were pretty straightforward, subject to, 
obviously, an up-or-down vote. They were allowed by the Committee on 
Rules. But the report of the Committee on the Judiciary starkly 
mischaracterized those amendments. As the gentleman knows, a motion has 
been filed on those. A ruling was not made in order as to whether or 
not that filing will be in order Tuesday or the next day. We raised 
this issue at the time of the consideration of the bill. We raised it 
again, the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Conyers), the ranking member on 
the Committee on the Judiciary raised it.
  Has the gentleman had an opportunity to discuss this, and does the 
gentleman know whether or not there is a possibility or probability 
that what we believe to be egregious language that was substituted for 
a straight definition, which, by the way, the Committee on Rules did 
correctly, but which the Committee on the Judiciary did not, does the 
gentleman know whether that is being corrected?

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  Mr. CANTOR. Mr. Speaker, I tell the gentleman from Maryland that the 
chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary takes a position that 
everything was done correctly and in order and is looking forward to a 
debate on the floor on the resolution late Tuesday afternoon.
  Mr. HOYER. Late Tuesday afternoon?
  Mr. CANTOR. Yes, Mr. Speaker.
  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, does the gentleman know how late that will 
be? Of course, votes will not be scheduled until 6:30, so most Members 
will not be back.
  Mr. CANTOR. Mr. Speaker, I think we can work that out, but I believe 
around 5 or 5:30 the debate will take place.
  Mr. HOYER. I appreciate that information, Mr. Speaker. I will 
certainly notify the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Conyers) and the 
gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Scott), one of the sponsors; the gentleman 
from New York (Mr. Nadler), another one of the sponsors; and the 
gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson-Lee), another one of the sponsors. 
I regret that we need to go ahead with the issue of the privileges of 
the House. I will tell the gentleman I do not know that I have seen an 
amendment as mischaracterized as this amendment was, and I was hopeful 
that we could simply resolve it. But if that cannot be done, then we 
will have to have it subject to debate.
  I thank the gentleman for his information.
  Mr. CANTOR. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. HOYER. I yield to the gentleman from Virginia.
  Mr. CANTOR. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding to me. I 
will tell the gentleman, again, that the chairman feels that all was in 
order and we will debate the question on the floor Tuesday afternoon.
  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for that information.

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