[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 259]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                       SENATE MUST REACH A BUDGET

  (Mr. ROGERS of Alabama asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, we have now reached a thousand 
days since the Congress of the United States has adopted a budget. It's 
not the fault of the House of Representatives. We passed a budget. We 
passed one last year and are going to pass another one this year. The 
President has proposed a budget every year, and nobody here much liked 
it. That's okay. He at least proposed a budget. What we haven't seen is 
the other body at the other end of the Capitol adopt a budget at all. 
They don't like the House budget; they don't like the President's 
budget. And they don't do anything.
  The fact is, if we're ever going to get our financial house in order, 
we have to have a budget, just like families, just like businesses. 
It's time for the other body to pass a budget. It's time for the 
President to call on the other body, which is controlled by his party, 
to pass a budget. I hope he'll do that tonight. Because the fact is 
we've got to get this country working again. It's all about jobs. And 
the fact that the Congress can't operate under a budget and get its 
fiscal house in order is hindering that job growth because it's 
affecting the financial markets in a negative way.
  So to the other body: Pass a budget.

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