Joe Cunningham: “I know the other side of the aisle talks that we have not passed any appropriations bills. The Senate, the other body…”

“I know the other side of the aisle talks that we have not passed any appropriations bills. The Senate, the other body, has only sent the House two bills. I am very careful, I am not going to bad mouth the Senate. I am just making a fact. They have only sent us two appropriations bills, Defense and MILCON which we are going to act upon. We have sent them 54 bills that the Senate has not acted upon. Some of those are critical. The marriage penalty is the issue, but some of these bills my colleagues talk about like workmen's comp corporate accountability, the energy bill that is critical for California, we have seen the brownouts and the blackouts that we had in the State of California. Look at the home land security bill. I do not think we ought to leave this body in the House until the Senate has acted on homeland security and leave America vulnerable. We should pass that particular bill but let us just say that since the other body has only sent us two bills, and I cannot talk about what the Senate is doing on the floor, let us take any other body out there, anybody, not the Senate, but let us just say that the House has a budget and this other body has not passed a budget.”