On the recordSeptember 24, 2002
One quick comment about being stalled. I suggest that in defense of my colleagues in the House--and I try to be a defender of them in the Senate--I suspect one of the reasons is that we don't have a budget. It is very hard to mark up appropriations bills when you don't have an agreement between the two bodies. I think that is difficult. The fact that the Senate has not passed a budget has put us in a situation where we have been unable to get conference reports--or even bills passed, in some cases--because of the uncertainty of what those numbers are.
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