C. W. Bill Young: “I do not think he was talking about the appropriations bills, because for the appropriations bills, I think the minority…”

“I do not think he was talking about the appropriations bills, because for the appropriations bills, I think the minority would concede that we have worked together very well with them. We have not kept them out of any meetings or any consideration of appropriations bills and appropriations issues. And the gentleman's original statement that we had not yet begun to negotiate, I would ask him to talk with his distinguished leader, the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey), because I cannot tell the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Cardin) how many hours and how many days we have spent negotiating with the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey) at the same table along with our subcommittee leadership and including the White House. We have been honestly negotiating; and as I pointed out, the appropriations issues have basically all been negotiated. They have all been settled. It is the extraneous legislative-type, philosophical-type issues that are holding us up, not appropriations issues.”