Floor as they wrapped up business for the week. The budget process and the status of the Health Care Replacement filter. This is just over 30 minutes. By law, under the budget, the control act, a budget is supposed to be brought to this floor on april 15. The majority leader would quickly observe that neither republicans democrats have met that deadline. However, we are unusually late in the budget process in my view. Despite months of promising to return to regular order, we have not yet done so as it relates to the budget. The budget has not been marked up in committee. Monday marked the statutory day by which the Appropriations Committee no longer has to wait to bring bills to the floor of the house, because the majority has failed to meet its obligation to pass a budget on time. Again i want to quickly note that both parties have failed to meet that deadline in times past. But i cannot remember us being session in is getting to the appropriations process. Because theres been no dir
Floor as they wrapped up business for the week. The budget process and the status of the Health Care Replacement filter. This is just over 30 minutes. By law, under the budget, the control act, a budget is supposed to be brought to this floor on april 15. The majority leader would quickly observe that neither republicans democrats have met that deadline. However, we are unusually late in the budget process in my view. Despite months of promising to return to regular order, we have not yet done so as it relates to the budget. The budget has not been marked up in committee. Monday marked the statutory day by which the Appropriations Committee no longer has to wait to bring bills to the floor of the house, because the majority has failed to meet its obligation to pass a budget on time. Again i want to quickly note that both parties have failed to meet that deadline in times past. But i cannot remember us being session in is getting to the appropriations process. Because theres been no dir
Floor as they wrapped up business for the week. The budget process and the status of the Health Care Replacement filter. This is just over 30 minutes. By law, under the budget, the control act, a budget is supposed to be brought to this floor on april 15. The majority leader would quickly observe that neither republicans democrats have met that deadline. However, we are unusually late in the budget process in my view. Despite months of promising to return to regular order, we have not yet done so as it relates to the budget. The budget has not been marked up in committee. Monday marked the statutory day by which the Appropriations Committee no longer has to wait to bring bills to the floor of the house, because the majority has failed to meet its obligation to pass a budget on time. Again i want to quickly note that both parties have failed to meet that deadline in times past. But i cannot remember us being session in is getting to the appropriations process. Because theres been no dir
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The recess. They are not good for controversial legislation. Collins, probably the most moderate one to get on told that wasas like him she was enthusiastic that she was opposing it. Senators are pretty pessimistic about it. Right now it is not doing great. Mitch mcconnell does want to bring it back next week. He is still trying to tweak the legislation of bring senators on board. Once they come back every to for the august recess. Written,et the bill scored, everybody on board and try to get 50 votes. That seemed like a high task. Host will there be in august recess . Guest some republicans are calling for the recess to be canceled in part because of this. It is too early to say right now. It is late july and the feeling they are making progress. Perhaps he could be delayed one week. That august recess is somewhat sacred to washington and folks do like to get home. But if they have the option of making progress on this, setting seven your Campaign Pledge to repeal the Affordable Care