Pete Domenici: “First and foremost, I thank Senator Trent Lott, the majority leader of the Senate. He has exhibited a rare determination…”

“First and foremost, I thank Senator Trent Lott, the majority leader of the Senate. He has exhibited a rare determination and real dedication and commitment to trying to get a bipartisan budget resolution through so that the Congress could do the work of the people this year and do as much of it together as we possibly could. I thank the Democratic leadership, at least the Democratic leadership in the Senate, for their work in behalf of this resolution. Senator Daschle has been extremely helpful. On the Democrat side, Senator Lautenberg, Senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, has been extremely helpful. He has worked hard. And together we intend to get this budget resolution out of here as close as possible to the form approved by the committee yesterday afternoon, by as overwhelming a vote as we could expect, 17 to 4, and I believe this morning the vote finished up at 17 to 5. So there were 17 Senators from both sides of the aisle and 5 against. I thank President Clinton and his negotiators, the President personally for his insistence we stay with it and for his early determinations made to this Senator and to Senator Lott that he wanted to proceed to try to do this.”