Trent Lott: “On the Presidio bill there has been objection now from our Democratic colleagues to turning to that omnibus bill. We had…”

“On the Presidio bill there has been objection now from our Democratic colleagues to turning to that omnibus bill. We had tried to dispense with the reading and recommit the conference report back to the conference in order to take care of a provision in there that had raised concern, the tax provision. And I thought at one point, I guess 24 hours ago now, that we were going to be able to get agreement on both sides of the aisle to recommit that conference report and take care of the problem and then move this very important parks bill forward that affects 41 States, contains 126 separate provisions relating to parks and public lands. This is the most important parks bill we have had in probably 4 years. It does have a lot of very important areas involved that need to be preserved, from battlefield sites to the Sterling Forest site that affects the New Jersey and New York area, the tall grass project out in Kansas, as well as the Presidio, and some very important projects in the State of Alaska.”