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Sam Gejdenson: “The reality is what the very capable chairman of the Committee on Appropriations has for a problem is he cannot get…”

On the recordOctober 12, 1998
The reality is what the very capable chairman of the Committee on Appropriations has for a problem is he cannot get agreement on his side in the House or in the Senate, and he cannot get the House and the Senate to agree. Mr. Gingrich, the Speaker, has decided that this year they will operate as a parliamentary body. So for a long time there has been a fight on the Republican side of the aisle, a very partisan fight based on political ideology. And with a 61-vote margin, they were not able to pass a budget bill. They have got a 10-vote margin in the Senate. You would think that, without the President or without the Democrats, they could come together with a proposal, bring it to the House and the floor, pass it through both bodies and send it to the President and dare the President to veto it. They cannot get their House in order. Lastly, we have spent time on the wrong things.
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Sam Gejdenson
Connecticut
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Discussing challenges in passing the budget during a floor speech.

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