10/05/2011
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"Five years of government by crisis has been taking place... A budget wasn't passed either of those 2 years."
"I am concerned about the pain that will be coming even worse for Mayor Bryan and Ms. Eberly and other private concessioners."
"We have offered four bills to fund the entire government, rejected by the Senate-controlled Senate."
"Though I believe, very clearly, leadership on the other side of the aisle relishes this shutdown taking place and the pain that it brings about for political reasons."