[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4324]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     GOP FAILURE TO ADOPT A BUDGET

  (Mr. TAKANO asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TAKANO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today with good news and bad news for 
the American people.
  The good news is that, after months of infighting, my Republican 
colleagues in the House and Senate have found something they all agree 
upon. The bad news is what they all have agreed upon is to stop doing 
their jobs.
  In the Senate, Judge Merrick Garland, who is widely recognized as a 
brilliant and fair legal mind, cannot get the courtesy of a hearing or 
a vote. In the House, the majority is not fulfilling its legal 
requirement to adopt a budget for the coming year.
  As one prominent Republican once wrote in the Wall Street Journal: 
Failing to pass a budget is ``a historic failure to fulfill one of the 
most basic responsibilities of governing.''
  That was Speaker Ryan in 2011.

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