C. W. Bill Young: “I was interested in listening to the minority leader's statement about agriculture, and I want to remind the Members…”

“I was interested in listening to the minority leader's statement about agriculture, and I want to remind the Members that when we were developing the first supplemental that we dealt with, when we received that initial supplemental request from the White House there was nothing in it about agriculture. It was an afterthought. The President afterwards requested that. So we finally got it in our first bill, and it will come to conference basically at the same time that this bill goes to conference, and we will all have a chance to vote on it again. I would also remind the minority leader that the pay that he is talking about that he supports, and I am happy to have his support, the pay is in the committee bill to pay for the men and women who wear the uniform of our country. It is in the committee bill, increased pay as well as the retirement package. But in closing, Mr. Chairman, let me say this: We are in Kosovo deeper than most of us thought we were, and unless Milosevic has a change of heart, we are going to get in deeper, and it is going to be longer and more expensive. We are stretching ourselves too thin.”