    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George W. Bush (2004, Book I)]
    [January 20, 2004]
    [Page 81]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Statement on Senate Inaction on Appropriations Legislation
    January 20, 2004

        Today a minority in the Senate denied a vote on a spending bill that
    is 4 months overdue and that fulfills important commitments: commitments
    to veterans who need health care; to Africans suffering from AIDS; to
    FBI agents fighting terror; to children learning to read in our Nation's
    public schools. This bill stays within the spending limits I proposed.
    And the Senate needs to pass it.