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On the recordMarch 9, 2011
the lack of any budget last year that was done, or any assumption of responsibility for actually doing our work in Congress, that this is the reason we are in this mess today.
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Tom Latham
Iowa

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Latham attributes the current budget crisis to Congress's failure to pass a budget.

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