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the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that the call of the quorum be terminated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, i would read a statement that was issued by speaker boehner and myself just a few minutes ago. this is the statement: we ve agreed to a historic amount of cuts for the remainder of this fiscal year as well as a short-term bridge that will give us time to avoid a shortdown. we will cut $78.5 billion and we ve reached an agreement on the policy riders. in the mean time, we ll pass a short-term resolution to keep the government running through thursday. that short-term bridge will cut the first $2 billion of the total savings. mr. president, i first of all want to express my appreciation to the speaker and his office. it s been a grueling process. we didn t do it at this late hour for drama. we did it because it has been hard to arrive at this point. i want to express my appreciation t
but also playing, i guess, the blame game, and positioning themselves in case there is, indeed, a shutdown. brianna, is this there s a growing frustration, i think, of a lot of people out there wondering why cannot they get this done? we re already months into 2011, and there s no budget, and the government s about to run out of money. the temporary funding about to run out. why can t they do this? well, i think that part of it is because they are obviously far apart on the issues here. you have the issue of spending cuts. and i think really all of these different things have come into play. you have the issue of spending cuts. you have a lot of democrats looking at what republicans want to cut, and they don t like the cuts. some of them have to do with programs that obviously democrats hold near and dear to their heart. and then you also have house speaker john boehner, who is no doubt really trying to deal with different contingencies within his party. there s tea par