Roy Blunt: “I would like to say to both Senator Sessions and Senator Johnson, who were primary leaders in this idea that we…”

“I would like to say to both Senator Sessions and Senator Johnson, who were primary leaders in this idea that we shouldn't go home, that Republicans shouldn't vote to adjourn, that you were going to object to things that didn't relate to the business we need to do, and, of course, that is right. As Senator Johnson was talking, I was thinking the other deadline, the other April 15 deadline, every American had better comply with that one. It is in the law just like the one that we are supposed to comply with. What if everybody in America decided they were going to miss their legal deadline as well? OK, we are not going to have a budget, and we are not going to pay our taxes. Of course, they would be in trouble. The Senate is not in trouble, but the country is in trouble because the Senate is not doing its job. Neither the House nor the Senate did their jobs in the last Congress, for the first time ever. So that is how we go now into 3 years of no budget, 3 years since we had a working document that we should have to work with. That is important. What did we do this week? The disappointment to all three of us is we said we wanted to stay this week and deal with these issues, and what did we deal with? We started out by trying to deal with a Libya resolution that apparently wasn't important enough to deal with last Thursday when we were going to take a week to be working in our States, but we will debate the Libya resolution.…”