C. W. Bill Young: “Mr. Chairman, the bill we bring to the floor today was approved by the Committee on Appropriations just last week. The…”

“Mr. Chairman, the bill we bring to the floor today was approved by the Committee on Appropriations just last week. The bill is designed to meet the emergency requirements of the War in Kosovo and to provide for other readiness-related items that are being exacerbated by the War in Kosovo. This war has stretched our military resources terribly thin. The President sent his request to the Congress, the committee reacted to that request quite expeditiously, and we made some changes. We provided the items that were identified by the President, but the committee, working in a nonpartisan way with our relative subcommittees, and I want to compliment the chairmen and ranking members of the subcommittees who were involved here in this particular bill, the gentleman from California (Mr. Lewis) from the Subcommittee on Defense, the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan) from the Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs, the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Hobson) from the Subcommittee on Military Construction, and also the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Rogers) who had an important part of this bill relative to embassy security; and these chairmen, plus their ranking members, did really an outstanding job.”