[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 14]
[Senate]
[Page 20124]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 OMNIBUS AND TAX EXTENDERS NEGOTIATIONS

  Mr. REID. Madam President, I want to underscore what the Republican 
leader has said: Everyone is working hard toward a bipartisan 
compromise in the omnibus and the so-called tax extenders legislation. 
Many of us in the Senate and the House and our staffs worked through 
the weekend and have made a lot of progress. We are not there yet.
  Keeping the Federal Government open and funded is a congressional 
responsibility. I am confident we will fulfill this most basic 
constitutional duty. It is just a question of when we do it. I hope it 
is sooner rather than later.

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