Amory Houghton: “I have not been in negotiations in the White House. I am not a Member…”

On the recordDecember 7, 2000

I have not been in negotiations in the White House. I am not a Member of the Republican leadership, but I am a concerned citizen, and I also am a Member of a bipartisan group which met with the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Roemer) yesterday and Members from both sides to try to find a way to bring our two parties together. We have gone over and over the issues. We have gone over and over the dollar amounts. We have had things on the table and off the table and back on the table, and it just seems to me that we do a job in the amount of time we allow ourselves to do it in, and we are about at that point. Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young), chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, because I think he has done an extraordinary job, are the issues such that we can, within a reasonable period of time, I say 24, 48 hours, solve these things and vote on them?

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Amory Houghton

Republican · New York

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Discussing bipartisan efforts to resolve issues in Congress.

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Amory Houghton: “I have not been in negotiations in the White House. I am not a Member of the Republican leadership, but I am a concerned…”

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