Bill Clinton: “Well, first of all--I talked to Senator Lott and Speaker Gingrich last week, and we've had good working relationships…”

“Well, first of all--I talked to Senator Lott and Speaker Gingrich last week, and we've had good working relationships with Mr. Archer and Senator Roth and others. I don't want to get into veto now. We knew that this, because of the unusual way in which this budget agreement was fashioned, that this would proceed, in effect, in a series of stages: the budget agreement, then the congressional committees, then we'd have final negotiations over the bill. I don't want to start talking about veto now. I want to craft an agreement consistent with the budget agreement that can be written into law and can be passed with a bipartisan majority of both sides. We had a bipartisan majority in both Houses for the budget agreement. And I think it's important that we try to preserve that here. Hong Kong”