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his few but let s assume we do have a budget and by judge ask the majority leader why we haven t passed a single appropriation bill. mr. reid: that also is an easy question to answer. the republicans in the house, this is a bicameral legislature, why have reneged on the law passed last august that set numbers. their appropriation bills have artificially lowered the numbers and in effect violated the law that s in effect here in this congress. as a result of that, senator inouye has marked up his subcommittee bills and we can t and i would also say, madam president, the house was not serious about what they do. energy and water which used to be one of the most important subcommittees, most popular, i should say in addition to being important, subcommittees in this body, i was fortunate to serve on that subcommittee for more than a quarter of a century under a great under great leaders, domenici, bennett johnson, domenici and i switched back and forth. but the house sent us

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