Norman D. Dicks: “We are not doing very well the way we are going, and again, the prospects are we are going to spend between 500 and $700…”

“We are not doing very well the way we are going, and again, the prospects are we are going to spend between 500 and $700 million on the historical accounting. It could go to $1 billion if we go the way we are going; and if we try this approach, we may be able to limit the amount of money spent to $100 million on the 1985 to the current accounting, then work out an approach pre-1985. It has got to be a settlement because they do not have the records. It has got to be a settlement, and we ought to work on the language. I resent the intonation that it is some vague promise. The gentleman from Washington has never ever made a commitment that I have not kept in my years in this Congress. When I say we are willing to sit down and work on something, that is not a vague promise.”