The President not only signed his name to that continuing resolution that the gentleman voted for, I believe, and I voted for to allow Government workers to go back to work, with a promise from the President that he by the end of the year would come up with a balanced budget, scored by CBO, that would balance over the next 7 years, buy the end of the year. Where are we? We are past the end of the year. Where is the President? Four budgets that he has offered later that did not balance. You are right. He is the gentleman that stands in the way of the Government workers from going back to work.
Ron Lewis: “The President not only signed his name to that continuing resolution that the gentleman voted for, I believe, and I…”
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