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Don Nickles: “I am embarrassed that we have been on two bills for 4 weeks and we have made so little progress. We have spent the…”

On the recordSeptember 26, 2002
I am embarrassed that we have been on two bills for 4 weeks and we have made so little progress. We have spent the entire month of September, and the end of the fiscal year is next month, and we haven't passed one appropriations bill this month.--not one. We have only had three or four votes on each bill--both the Interior bill and the homeland security bill. That is pretty pathetic progress. As a result, we have only passed three appropriations bills out of the Senate. It is maybe one of the worst records we have had in a long time. That is not acceptable. I can't help but think if the majority or minority would get together and say let us bring up these bills, move them quickly; let us table nongermane amendments; let us get our work done; that it would help make the process work a lot better.
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Don Nickles
Oklahoma
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Addressing the slow progress on appropriations bills during Senate floor debate.

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