C. W. Bill Young: “Mr. Chairman, I offer this substitute, which includes many similar amendments to those we have already considered and…”

“Mr. Chairman, I offer this substitute, which includes many similar amendments to those we have already considered and others we will consider, as a total substitute for the bill. However, the primary reason I offer this substitute is because my friends on the Committee on Rules did not give appropriators any time at all under the rule to have a serious debate on our position relative to this bill. So we are taking this approach. Now, I want to announce to the Members that I agree that the budget process needs to be changed and needs to be improved. And I am not suggesting that my chairman, the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Nussle), has done anything wrong. It is just the fact that the current process is not working, especially at the other end of the Capitol. But what I intended to do in one of the amendments I submitted and the Committee on Rules rejected, was to create a commission, a bicameral, bipartisan group of Members of the House and the Senate, to sit down and study this problem from all perspectives not just that of the Committee on the Budget, or the Committee on Appropriations, or the Committee on Ways and Means, or the authorizing committees--but from all perspectives. Everybody has something good to offer if they are given an opportunity. But my amendment was not made in order, so we are not going to do that here today. So what I intend to do, Mr. Chairman, is to develop a bill on my own.”