Out of the last cr vote that ultimately will see an increase on defense spending, that budget caps would be lifted. What message do you have for leadership as far as breaking the impass and getting to a larger deal to fund the federal government . Sen. Inhoff but we have to do is get away from these crs. When i started it was understood we would have appropriation bills. We have 12 appropriation bills and we have not quite frankly there is a partisan elements of this. We have tried to pass them out and we cant get them on the floor. As you know, a minority can block them from coming up on the floor. As far as the one that has to pass, it is the for our national one defense. We have to get past the budget caps. We have to get i will give you an example. If we dont do anything as it is right now when we pass the authorization bill for the military, its at 700 billion. If for some reason we cant get beyond the caps and we have to go to a strict cr, thats going to go down to 549 billion an
Today from senator cornyn. Out ofas optimism coming the last cr vote that ultimately increase on defense spending, that budget caps would be lifted. Hat message do you have for leadership as far as breaking to a passe, and getting larger deal to fund federal government . Senator yes, get away from crs. I can remember when i first started, it was understood, we were going to have appropriations bills, 12 bills and have not quite frankly, the partisan element to this, because we have to pass them out, majority, we cant get them on know. Loor, as you minority can block for now as far as the one that has to pass, is the one for our National Defense. Nd we have to get past the budget caps, have to get, give an example, if we dont do right now, it is when we pass authorization bill military, 700 billion, we have to go and cant get the cap and go to strict r, that is going down to 549 billion and that would absolutely be devastating, weve military and ur cant do it unless we pass it or we ion
Guest we heard earlier today from senator cornyn that we should expect at least two more crs. There was some optimism coming out of the last cr vote that ultimately will see an increase on defense spending that budget caps would be lifted. What message douf for leadership as far as breaking the impass and getting to a larger deal to fund the federal overnment . What we have to do, it was understood we were going to have appropriation bills. We have 12 appropriation bills and we have frankly theres a partisan element to this because we have tried to pass them out and we cant get them on the floor. As you know a minority can block them from coming up on the floor. The one that has to pass is the one for our National Defense. We have to get past the budget caps. Give an example. If we dont do anything as it is right now when we pass the authorization bill for the military its at 700 billion. If for some reason we cant get beyond the caps and we have to go to a strict cr thats going to go
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