Legislative Program

Floor Speech

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Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for this opportunity to inform the Members of where we are. So many of us have been through this process before, and I know that every Member wants to have as much certainty about the schedule as possible. But, also, every Member understands that when we are at a period of time when we are trying to leave for a week and we have important legislation to do, that these events sometimes drag out.

So the schedule is this: After the next vote we are going to break for dinner. Members will be on notice that they will receive a 1-hour notice if we are going to return. As the House knows, we are scheduled to meet tomorrow as well, which we intend to do. So it is not unusual that we would go long before the last day, assuming that is the last day.

I want everybody to get the ramifications of assuming that tomorrow is the last day. We want to get two major pieces of legislation done. They are controversial pieces of legislation, we know, but we want to get those done. We are working on that. The other side has gone through that experience themselves.

Members should be on notice that we have an intention to break after this next vote for dinner, subject to an hour's notice to be back here, with the expectation that there may well be votes this evening. We are hopeful that those votes would be sooner rather than later in terms of going late into the night.

We will meet tomorrow at 9 o'clock and hope to complete the remainder of the business that was noted as possible for this week.

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Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for the question, and then we will conclude. We hope to have not only a JCT score but also CBO scores. As the gentleman knows, the overwhelming majority of the bill has been pending for some time. Obviously, the CBO has been reviewing the individual items for some time. We expect to have very close to most of the bill.

It does not need a CBO score. It does need a CBO score, however, when it goes to the Senate, as the gentleman knows. That would be our intention, to have as much information available to Members as we have in hand. We do intend to move forward with the bill.

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Mr. HOYER. We are working on that. We hope the CBO can accommodate that objective.

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