W. Weldon said "I would just add we did make an attempt, although it may have been a last minute attempt, to broker a deal with the White House and with the Senate Democrats on missile defense, and thought we were moving in that direction. The meeting we had with Bob Bell where we attempted to and in fact agreed to 12 specific changes, as I mentioned to my colleague, we thought was moving us in that direction. Evidently we did not move far enough. So I would just hope that, as our friend and colleague the gentleman from California [Mr. Hunter] mentioned, that the White House would engage us directly in this process so that we get clear signals in terms of what is acceptable and not acceptable, because we thought we were doing that in the negotiation on missile defense that led up to that bill that finally came to the House floor which the President threatened to veto." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordJanuary 5, 1996

I would just add we did make an attempt, although it may have been a last minute attempt, to broker a deal with the White House and with the Senate Democrats on missile defense, and thought we were moving in that direction. The meeting we had with Bob Bell where we attempted to and in fact agreed to 12 specific changes, as I mentioned to my colleague, we thought was moving us in that direction. Evidently we did not move far enough. So I would just hope that, as our friend and colleague the gentleman from California [Mr. Hunter] mentioned, that the White House would engage us directly in this process so that we get clear signals in terms of what is acceptable and not acceptable, because we thought we were doing that in the negotiation on missile defense that led up to that bill that finally came to the House floor which the President threatened to veto.

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W. Weldon

Republican · Pennsylvania

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing attempts to negotiate missile defense agreements with the White House and Senate Democrats.

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