Don Nickles: “I urge our colleagues to vote to proceed to this appropriations bill. I cannot recall--and it may be that we have done…”

“I urge our colleagues to vote to proceed to this appropriations bill. I cannot recall--and it may be that we have done it--somebody objecting to a motion to proceed to an appropriations bill. Maybe a couple years ago in dealing with an Interior bill, which I was actually a manager of, that had on it an issue on grazing, and there was some legislation on that bill. But I do not recall anyone objecting to proceeding to the bill, though. I have heard a couple colleagues on the other side of the aisle saying they had problems with one of the provisions in the bill relating to prohibiting President Clinton's Executive order dealing with striker replacements. If they do not like that language, if we proceed to the bill, they have the opportunity to amend it and strike that language if they have the votes. That is fine. That is the way we usually handle appropriations bills. There are some things in this appropriations bill I do not agree with and on which I plan on having an amendment. Not everything done in committee I agree with.”