David Price: “That is the chart I am talking about. I appreciate the gentleman's pointing this out. Our Republican friends last week…”

“That is the chart I am talking about. I appreciate the gentleman's pointing this out. Our Republican friends last week, when we were discussing this as the new fiscal year approached, they said it is not unusual to pass continuing resolutions. We pass continuing resolutions all time. It is certainly unusual to have the entire Federal budget come crashing down and to have the entire government running on continuing resolutions for months and months into the new fiscal year, and that is exactly what we are facing today. The Republicans in July, Republican Conservative Action Team, the group of the most conservative House Republicans, threatened to bring the Interior appropriations bill down, and they said that the price of their cooperation would be that the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill would be considered next, and nothing would be done on appropriations until that bill was dealt with. And I wondered, and I expect all of us wondered during the month of August when we were home, how are Republican leaders, in fact, going to pass that Labor-HHS- Education appropriations bill within the President's totally inadequate numbers? How would we get past this bill to the rest of the appropriations agenda before the new fiscal year began?”