H.R. 2015, BALANCED BUDGET ACT OF 1997

MINORITY VIEWS WITH REGARD TO
TO PROCEDURES ON RECONCILIATION
OF
THE HONORABLE JOHN D. DINGELL

The Budget Resolution for Fiscal Year 1998 provided just one week for the Commerce Committee to report reconciliation legislation that will determine how more than $3.6 trillion of the American taxpayer's money is spent over the next five years. The Committee worked diligently during that period and completed its action late on Thursday, June 12. The minority was informed that all Minority Views would be required to be submitted by close of business on Friday, June 13, when the House was in recess.

Obviously such a timetable creates problems in both the drafting of legislation, but also in the drafting of the report and Minority Views. It was virtually impossible to circulate any Minority Views for Members' signatures on Friday, a day that the House was in recess.

The Minority Views contained in this report are currently being circulated to Members. I urge my colleagues on the Budget Committee to include the names of all who subsequently sign these views, along with any additional views submitted by Members prior to the filing of the report by the Budget Committee on this legislation.

JOHN D. DINGELL

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