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Dick Durbin: “I expected that. I would say to the Senator from Arizona there were answers, and I thought good answers, but not good…”

On the recordMay 22, 2013
I expected that. I would say to the Senator from Arizona there were answers, and I thought good answers, but not good enough. We passed a budget resolution. The Senator was here. It passed by one vote. We stayed until early in the morning hours to get it done. Senator Patty Murray did a masterful job in putting this together. Of course, our passing the resolution is only half of the story. The way this is supposed to work is the so-called regular order, if it differs between the Senate and the House, is we come together in a conference to work out the differences. How long have we been trying--how many weeks have we been trying?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 22, 2013

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