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Tim Ryan: The interesting part here is the CR that we passed today was to clean up their mess that they left. They only passed one…

On the recordJanuary 31, 2007
The interesting part here is the CR that we passed today was to clean up their mess that they left. They only passed one out of 13 appropriations bills. So you can only imagine, Mr. Speaker, all of a sudden they leave all of this mess for us to deal with and we try to deal with their mess and they want input. Well, you had your chance. You had 14 years and all kinds of months last year to pass this stuff, and you didn't do it.
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Tim Ryan
Democratic · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the challenges of passing appropriations bills and criticizing the previous Congress's inaction.

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