[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 7]
[Senate]
[Page 9462]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                    BUILDING A BIPARTISAN COMPROMISE

  Mr. CRAIG. Mr. President, I certainly concur with my colleague that I 
hope we can move forward on these critical issues. We are now working 
hard at accomplishing some of those efforts. As he mentioned, the 
conference on the Patients' Bill of Rights is at work. We hope we can 
build a bipartisan compromise as necessary to produce that kind of 
program and law and protection for the American consumers of health 
care.
  There is a great deal of work to be done. I hope we can come together 
in a united and bipartisan way to resolve some of these issues, to move 
the appropriations bills forward, to make sure we complete our business 
in a timely manner.
  Of course, I understand, as I think my colleague from Nevada 
understands, that is going to take cooperation from both sides. 
Tragically, and sadly, we got into a bit of a nonproductive period 
prior to the Memorial Day recess. I hope the recess has cleared the air 
and we can come back in a productive way.

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