Kent Conrad: “Today is another deadline as well. Today is the deadline for the Congress of the United States to pass the budget for…”

“Today is another deadline as well. Today is the deadline for the Congress of the United States to pass the budget for the year. And that gives rise to the question that I put on this chart: Where is the budget? We are not going to pass a budget for the next year here today. There is not even one before the U.S. Senate. But it is even worse than that, because the Budget Committee had a deadline of April 1, and we have not even considered a budget in the Budget Committee. I am a member of the Budget Committee and have been a member for 10 years. There is no budget that the Republicans--who control the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House, and, as a result, they control the budget committees--have put before us. We have the budget from the President which they have criticized, but we have no budget from them. Mr. President, it is time for those on the other side of the aisle to come forward with their budget proposal.”