Don Young

Mr. YOUNG of Alaska

Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California (Mr. George Miller).

Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the gentleman's comment. I just suggest respectfully that amendment should be rejected. It is a small, small part of this total budget, and I do go back to my senior citizens and I do think they frankly support this legislation. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Mr. Chairman, I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Shadegg).

Mr. YOUNG of Alaska

Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Mr. Chairman, if the gentleman will continue to yield, I am familiar with the gentleman's legislation and look forward to working with him and his staff on this measure.

Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Mr. Chairman, I move that the Committee do now rise.

Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. I understand and appreciate the work that the gentleman has done on this measure and it is my intention that the appropriate subcommittee of the Committee on Resources will hold a public hearing on this prior to the August recess, especially this upcoming 2000 recess. I compliment the gentleman on his good work. He has talked to me before tonight and I appreciate the gentleman withdrawing the amendment.

Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. With that agreement, we will sit down and work this out. We will accept the amendment at this time with no vote, with that agreement.

Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Yes.

Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Through the legislature. If they do not match it, we do not get it.

Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Not through a dedicated process, but through an appropriation process in the legislature.

Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. We cannot have a dedicated fund, in our Constitution. But if the gentleman will help me fix that problem, is what I am saying.

Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. We have a problem, because Alaska cannot do a dedicated fund. That is under our Constitution. That is why I want to have the gentleman's agreement. Otherwise I will strip it out. I want the gentleman to work with us to try to solve this problem. I am not in disagreement to what the gentleman is trying to do, but we do have that problem. Does the gentleman understand what I am saying?

Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Would that be agreeable with the chairman?

Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Are we going to say we accept the amendment, or are we against the amendment?

Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. I yield to the gentleman from Ohio.

Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. I yield to the gentleman from California.

Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Mr. Chairman, I would ask the gentleman from California (Mr. George Miller) what we should do here.

Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. This is what I am leading up to. If the gentleman will just relax a moment, and he is not being mischievous, I hope, because on the surface, I do not see anything wrong with the amendment.

Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. If there was a Ford Foundation that gave the State money for a recreational project or acquisition of land, that money could be counted against the Federal dollars?

Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. I yield to the gentleman from California.

Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman from California help me out on this? It goes back to the question.

Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Or some other form of dollar amount that is not dollars. What the gentleman is asking, I do not think he wants them to put up a fund, but he has to have the money to match the matching grants in real dollars.

Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. I yield to the gentleman from Ohio.

Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Mr. Chairman, I have just been following this conversation. I have an inquiry of the gentleman from California (Mr. George Miller). I would like him to take the mike again. If the gentleman's intent is, he objects to using land as to the matching of the Federal dollars?

Mr. YOUNG of Alaska

Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Parliamentary inquiry, Mr. Speaker.