[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 6 (Wednesday, February 4, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S410]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       THE 13TH LABOR OF HERCULES

 Mr. MOYNIHAN. Mr. President, nearly a year-and-a-half since I 
wrote President Clinton urging him to appoint a high level aide to 
handle the Year 2000 Computer Problem, I am encouraged that the 
President has made this issue a top priority, and named John Koskinen 
to chair a Presidential Year 2000 Council.
  The President's council has many similarities to the Commission/Task 
Force that would have been created by my bill, S. 22, which I 
introduced on the first day of the 105th Congress (1/21/97). This all 
has come about in no small part because of the tireless efforts of 
Representative Steve Horn and his House Government Reform Subcommittee. 
I look forward to working closely with Mr. Koskinen.
  Having spent two years studying, and warning of, the lagging progress 
of the agencies on this issue, I should warn Mr. Koskinen that with 
fewer than two years remaining, he faces what looks to be the 13th 
labor of Hercules.

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