[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 22]
[House]
[Pages 30403-30404]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM

  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I know this will come as an extraordinary 
disappointment to all of the Members in the House, but in consultation 
with my friend the minority whip, and in consultation with Mr. Levin, 
the chairman of the subcommittee, and Mr. Rangel, and I have not talked 
to Mr. McCrery and I apologize for that, but I think that the way we 
will proceed, we will proceed to debate tonight, I'm trying to elongate 
this announcement because so many times people are so angry at me for 
scheduling. I think it's one of the few opportunities I get to make 
people a little bit happy. But we will save 20 minutes of debate. We 
will do all but 20 minutes of the allocated debate. There are four 
sides to this. Five, five, five and five, we will save for tomorrow, 
and we will commence that at the conclusion of the 1-minutes. There

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are 10 a side. So that will take about 20, 25 minutes, and we will 
commence the closing of debate, and then we will have the vote on this 
bill immediately following that debate.
  Mr. RANGEL. Would the gentleman yield on this?
  Mr. HOYER. I yield to the gentleman.
  Mr. RANGEL. You know, the committee's put a lot of time on this bill, 
but after considerable thought, I just thought it would be fair to tell 
the majority leader that I agree with you 100 percent.
  Mr. HOYER. I knew this was going to be a good night.

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