Harry Reid: “let me say on behalf of the minority that we are most happy to work on all the items the majority leader has mentioned.…”

“let me say on behalf of the minority that we are most happy to work on all the items the majority leader has mentioned. We look forward to working with the chairman of the Appropriations Committee and Senator Byrd to move more of these appropriations bills. I think we have a really outstanding record working with the majority on appropriations bills and will continue to do that. We feel it is vitally important. The conference which was completed last week was extremely difficult and long. But we now have a bill which the President has. We finished the Interior appropriations conference report. I am happy to hear we have a completed military construction conference report. That wasn't easy. Everyone had to take their projects in their States and cut back from what they had. We look forward to a productive 22 weeks. I hope we will do everything we can to complete our business before Thanksgiving. We are here to work nights, weekends, whatever it takes, to complete that work.”