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John Rice Carter: “So if I understand you, those other budgets you're talking about, those four others, there was--in those cases there was…”

On the recordMay 19, 2010
So if I understand you, those other budgets you're talking about, those four others, there was--in those cases there was an attempt to pass a budget, but they never could reconcile. Maybe they couldn't reconcile the differences with the Senate or they couldn't even reconcile it within the Congress, but they certainly made a good-faith effort to try to get a budget passed and didn't get it done. Is that what you're saying?
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John Rice Carter
Republican · Georgia
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govinfo.gov
May 19, 2010

Editor's note · Context

The speaker is discussing the challenges faced in passing budgets in Congress.

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