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Steve Cohen: If I may ask, you were here in the previous Congress. Didn't the Republican-controlled Congress have a chance to pass…

On the recordJanuary 30, 2007
If I may ask, you were here in the previous Congress. Didn't the Republican-controlled Congress have a chance to pass that budget and have all the input that they wanted, and they failed to do it? Why is the continuing resolution here?
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee

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Questioning the failure of the previous Republican-controlled Congress to pass a budget.

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