Mark Dayton: “From what I understand from the discussion, the Senate Appropriations Committee has come out on time and on budget, and…”

“From what I understand from the discussion, the Senate Appropriations Committee has come out on time and on budget, and yet we are hung up in these delays. The Senator who chairs that committee, who has done everything right in order to meet these deadlines, today is on the Senate floor expressing the catastrophic effects that will result across the country from the failure to meet these deadlines. This Senator presides a great deal and has not heard anyone else come before the Senate to express his dismay at the human consequences of the failure to come to this agreement. I thank the Senator for bringing these matters to the attention of the Senate and ask, as a final question: What can we do now to try to stave off these catastrophes?”