David Obey: “Mr. Speaker, as I said several times before, the problem with these continuing resolutions is not necessarily the time…”

“Mr. Speaker, as I said several times before, the problem with these continuing resolutions is not necessarily the time that is being taken. There have been other Congresses that have not finished their work on time either. But the question is will we do the really important things that we need to do with that additional time, important things that we should have done a long time ago. It is true that over the next week we will pass a few additional appropriation bills. After long delay, we have now reached agreement on some of those bills, so a lot of the controversy has been leached out of them. But in the end, we still face a couple of facts. We face the likelihood that if the House proceeds in accordance with the majority's plans, we will wind up having passed appropriation bills about $45 billion above the level provided in the original budget resolution which the majority party adopted and which has governed virtually all of the turmoil that we have had over the past 9 months on budget issues in this House.”