Bill Clinton: “Oh, sure I would, but I would want to know what the details are first. But I agree that it needs to be changed, and I'm…”

“Oh, sure I would, but I would want to know what the details are first. But I agree that it needs to be changed, and I'm certainly open to changing it. Lawyers are making more money than cleanup folks are right now. Let me say as a general proposition on the spending issue, too, there are two other opportunities that the Congress and the President will have to deal with, Government spending and the efficiency of Government programs, this year in addition to this reconciliation process which is going on, and that is that all the appropriations committees are reviewing all their spending. Keep in mind, what you see now in the budget only includes tax cuts or tax increases and the entitlement programs and the overall spending limits. The specific programs, whether they're cut, increased, or kept the same, that's all handled by the Appropriations Committee, and that's going on now, too. And that will offer other opportunities for dealing with the spending issues. And the third thing that's going to happen is in September the Vice President is going to come in with this report about reexamining the whole functioning of the Federal Government, and that will open a new avenue of opportunities for dealing with a lot of these issues also. Is there another question back there? I thought I saw one more hand up. The boss here says we can do one more. Am I going to get out without one more? I accept if--go ahead. I'll do two more. Mr. Morecott once let me play golf with him, so I owe him a question. [Laughter] Trade Negotiations”