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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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