[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 26970]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM

  (Mr. CANTOR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. CANTOR. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the majority leader, the 
gentleman from Maryland, so that he may inform the House on what to 
expect about this weekend's schedule.
  Mr. HOYER. I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Ladies and gentlemen of the House, as the House well knows, we are 
contemplating the consideration of the Health Care for All Americans 
Act on Saturday. We will be considering the amendments on the chemical 
protection bill that we are now considering tomorrow. We will consider 
perhaps some other suspensions as well.
  My expectation is that on Saturday we will convene at 9 o'clock in 
the morning. I expect to have five 1-minute speeches on each side, as 
we usually do on Friday and the end of the week. We will then go to the 
rule on the health care bill, and then it is my expectation we will 
have consideration of the health care bill and the Republican 
substitute.
  It is my expectation that if we proceed apace and come to a vote and 
disposition on that piece of legislation, that we would then adjourn 
Saturday at whatever hour we complete our work and that the adjournment 
would be to the 16th of November, the Monday of the following week.
  We will convene on the 16th at 6:30 p.m. and meet through Friday of 
that week. It is my expectation, as I have indicated, that we would be 
off the following week, which is Thanksgiving week.
  That's my present plan, which oft go awry, as all of us know, but 
that is my present plan for the balance of the month.
  Mr. CANTOR. I thank the gentleman.
  I would just like to ask the gentleman for a point of clarification, 
our Members can count on a vote on final passage on the health care 
bill on Saturday and, upon having done that, can anticipate being able 
to leave sometime Saturday night or Sunday?
  I yield.
  Mr. HOYER. I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  That would be my expectation. Again, I want to clarify and make sure 
that everybody understands it is our intent to finish the health care 
bill, but assuming that we finish the health care bill sometime 
Saturday, Saturday night, or early Sunday morning, it would be my 
expectation there would be no further business until the 16th.
  Mr. CANTOR. I thank the gentleman.

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