Trent Lott: “Reform legislation--it takes some time after the actual vote. So it is my intent for this issue to come up when we come…”

“Reform legislation--it takes some time after the actual vote. So it is my intent for this issue to come up when we come back after the Easter recess. There is a statute or bill that has been introduced that we hope to get up and get a vote on. Very serious. I think good efforts are underway to deal with the parallel issues of U.N. reform. The administration is working with a bipartisan group of House and Senate Members. I think everybody is beginning to understand, themselves, and we may be able to get some reforms and some process on how we deal with what is the number we may be indebted to the United Nations for and how that ever would be addressed. We are also working with the chairman of the committee, Senator Helms, and Senator Biden, the ranking member, on this reorganization of the State Department issue. The new Secretary of State has indicated some encouraging things there, and I believe there is going to be good faith by all to try to address this issue.”