Patty Murray actually said...

These families are paying the price for the fact that Washington, DC, continues to lurch from crisis to crisis instead of compromising aroun...

But we are moving forward as if we are enacting a budget that has--well, we will hear from our chairman of the Appropriations Committee what...

For too long, some members of Congress have been unwilling to reach a fair and balanced compromise on deficit reduction.

There are smart ways we can do this, and we have been able to do that in the past.