[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 54 (Wednesday, April 15, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S2186]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           A BALANCED BUDGET

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, on another matter, before Easter, the 
Senate passed a balanced budget. The House of Representatives did as 
well. The next step in the process is for each Chamber to appoint 
Members to a conference committee that can work out any differences 
between those bills, and then send unified legislation back to Congress 
for a final vote. We are taking that next step today.
  Some of our friends across the aisle seem eager to use this 
opportunity to rehash some of the same votes we took in passing the 
budget. The outcome of those votes won't be different, so I am not sure 
what the point would be, other than to slow down the process for its 
own sake. So I would urge them to reconsider and decide if that is 
really what they want to do.
  But either way--either way--the new Congress is determined to keep 
working to finalize the budget. After years of a Senate that often 
refused to even consider a budget, this is a big change. And it is 
another example of the new Congress that is back to regular order and 
back to work.

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