Lloyd Doggett: “It commemorates failure. It deserves a name: The Republican Congressional Failure Act of 1999. As late as September 19…”

“It commemorates failure. It deserves a name: The Republican Congressional Failure Act of 1999. As late as September 19, the Speaker, the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hastert), told the country that "by the first of October we will have all of the appropriation bills passed out of the House and the Senate," and here we are, nearing November 1, not October 1, and one of those very important bills has never even been presented to the House for consideration, much less the Senate or the President of the United States for his consideration. We will have later today that bill finally come before us, and it is clear that the reason for the delay of that bill; now that we have it, is that it has failure written all over it.”