After one bill has been dealt with. the Chair would then entertain a motion to dispense with further reading of the calendar. and that is all that it takes on a simple majority vote. The problem some of us have in this House is that the American people ask usand I am sure they asked Members on the Democratic side as well as the Republican side in the 9 weeks we were out: "Why are you not doing something about a constitutional amendment to balance the budget? Why are you not doing something about regulatory reform?" That passed out of our committee a long time ago. "Why are you not doing something about immigration?" which passed out of our committee last May. "Why are you not doing something on many. many different issues that have passed committees in the past?" And all we can say is. "They have not been scheduled." If in fact you think we ought to schedule some of these things. we ought to go by the procedure where we go through this on every Wednesday. Now. if the gentleman from Texas is saying that he merely objects because this might interfere with the Presidents appearance before us. it has been my observation in my 5 years here that the President only has one state of the Union address a year. and if the gentleman would like to say that we will not have Calendar Wednesday for that reason this week but we will have Calendar Wednesday henceforth. I would be happy to accommodate the gentleman and agree to that.
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