Bruce F. Vento: “I appreciate it, and let me just say that I from the onset I think helped set a tone here with regard to not attempting…”

“I appreciate it, and let me just say that I from the onset I think helped set a tone here with regard to not attempting to defend actions where individuals manufactured papers to present to the subcommittee, and I think we are of one mind with regard to resolving that, wherever it leads. At the same time, I do not think that we would for a problem in an arms program disarm the soldiers, and I think that is the concern we have when we see the pleading with people like the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Rush] and others, and I would just say that we are of one mind with regard to this, and this is an issue included in the budget negotiations which most of us were not part of. I trust that maybe our colleague, the gentleman from California [Mr. Lewis] and he says no. So I think, as we go forward, I think the understanding is that we have gained some, I think a major concession here today in terms of this, if that was the concern. I do not know that my support was ever lacking with regard it, but if we could go forward with this, with this understanding that if these questions or criteria that our good friend from Florida has articulated are not satisfied in the sense of before the closure on this particular bill with regard to conference, then I would think that there would not be the support evidenced in the House, and we would agree.…”