Steny Hoyer: “Mr. Speaker, very frankly, the majority party has put a kinder, gentler face on what it has done over the last 8 months.…”

“Mr. Speaker, very frankly, the majority party has put a kinder, gentler face on what it has done over the last 8 months. That kinder, gentler, principled face is the face of the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young), the chairman of our Committee, the Committee on Appropriations; and like the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey), I have no quarrel with the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young). The gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey) said the Democrats were not included in the appropriations process, in the Committee on Appropriations, in the Commerce, Justice, State. I will say, on my committee, that the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Kolbe) and I dealt together openly. The shame of it was that the Republicans on the Committee on Appropriations were not always included in the appropriations negotiation. That is one of the problems, one of the significant problems.”