Barbara Mikulski: “I now yield 3 minutes of the proponents' time to Senator Murray, the chairperson of the Budget Committee, who actually…”

“I now yield 3 minutes of the proponents' time to Senator Murray, the chairperson of the Budget Committee, who actually did pass a budget 5 months ago but has been precluded because of sheer, rigid, ideological posturing from being able to go to a conference, sit in a room with Paul Ryan, and work out what the budget of the United States of America should be. This is why we have gone from the greatest deliberative body to the greatest delay body. So I yield 3 minutes and any other time she wishes to consume to Senator Murray, who has done an outstanding job, and I wish people would follow her lead and let her go to the conference so we could have a budget. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Washington.”