David Obey: “Again under my reservation of objection, Mr. Speaker, let me simply explain to the Members what I understand is…”

“Again under my reservation of objection, Mr. Speaker, let me simply explain to the Members what I understand is happening with respect to one of the appropriation bills. The State-Justice bill has a number of contentious items. Frankly, right now, although there is language which apparently may meet with the approval of the administration, we have a meeting going on right now with a number of lawyers to try to decipher what that language is and to see whether or not we can work our way to agreement on that. If we can, I would grant that there is the possibility of going to conference tonight without a lot of problems on the State-Justice bill. But we still have confusion about the other two bills. Let me ask, does the gentleman know of any other so-called compromise language which is circulating with respect to Mexico City? There are rumors rampant about different language being floated by the administration, by somebody else. Has the gentleman been given any language that would effect the Mexico City provisions of the foreign operations bill?”