[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 13601]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   THE SENATE HAS NOT PASSED A BUDGET

  Mr. ALLARD. Mr. President, I wish to express to the Senate my sincere 
disappointment that we have not passed a budget. It has been 27 years 
since we have had this budget process in place in the Senate. This is 
the first time we have not had a budget plan passed out of the Senate.
  If we are going to begin to talk about the need for various programs, 
it would certainly be helpful if we had some idea of where our limits 
were. I happen to believe we need to work to eliminate our deficit 
spending. We need to work to make sure we are trying to hold down the 
growth in our total debt.

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