David Obey: “I am going to give the gentleman from Georgia my Alibi Ike of the Cosmos Award tonight for that speech. Let us put the…”

“I am going to give the gentleman from Georgia my Alibi Ike of the Cosmos Award tonight for that speech. Let us put the record straight. The Senate has not passed three appropriation bills which the House has sent to it, the Legislative bill, Interior, Treasury and Post Office. That constitutes about 10 percent of the entire domestic budget. The House has not yet considered 90 percent of the domestic budget, the eight appropriation bills that it is still to deliver. The gentleman says, 'Oh, you cannot sit down and negotiate an appropriations bill with the other body if they have not passed a budget resolution.' We just did. We just passed a DOD bill today, and we just passed a Military Construction bill today, and both of those passed despite the fact that, guess what, the Senate had not passed an irrelevant budget resolution on those either. All it proves is that when the majority party in this House wants to pass an appropriation bill, they can find a way to do it, and to duck it, when they want to duck it, I tell you they are World Series class in ducking them, and that is what they have done this year.”