[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 72 (Friday, May 18, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H3148]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              THE U.S. SENATE HAS FAILED TO PASS A BUDGET

  (Mr. DOLD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DOLD. For the last 1,115 days, the United States Senate has 
failed to pass a budget. If any business, big or small, were to operate 
in this very fashion, I submit it would be out of business in a matter 
of months. Yet the United States Senate refuses to pass a budget 
blueprint to address what I would consider are the very serious 
challenges facing our Nation today. This is just unacceptable.
  The American people are frustrated; and, frankly, I'm frustrated as 
well. With a skyrocketing debt of over $15.5 trillion and with 
trillion-dollar deficits happening year after year, we must come 
together to address the spending problem here in Washington, D.C. This 
is something we simply cannot ignore. We need to work in a bipartisan 
fashion to find common ground and to put people before politics and 
progress before partisanship.
  Mr. Speaker, I supported the only bipartisan budget to hit the floor 
in decades because it took a step forward to adjust the problems facing 
our Nation. I would encourage the Senate to do the same.

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