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Regular order. and the problem with the fiscal side today if you don't have your budget done by the 15th of march and reconcile with the senate by the 15th of april and then try to come together and take the month of june and july and do the appropriation process. and then in september, fine tune it. and by the first of october you have your budget done. you don't want to jam it up to the end. because you jam it up to the end, you get in the box and you don't know where the hole to get out of is. let me tell you a quick story. i was two -- 1999, my first real full year as speaker. we had a bal...

Have the budget done by the 15th of march and reconcile with the senate by the 15th of april and then try to come together and take the months of may and june and july to do the appropriation process and then, you know, in september fine tune it and by the first of october, you have the budget done. you don't want to jam it up to the end because you jam it up to the end, you get in a box and you don't know where the hole to get out of is. let me tell you a quick story. i was 200 -- well 1999 my first real full year as speaker, we had a balanced budget agreement. means that the bill is passed o...

We haven't passed an appropriation bill in two years. >> they did pass a budget in march. >> finally a budget. but a budget is only supposed to direct the appropriation process where you actually go through that difficult work of prioritizing spending. we haven't done that in two years which is why we're now at this moment, past the deadline of september 30th when the fiscal year runs out trying to fund the government again in an incredibly inefficient way utilizing these continuing resolutions. it's just a terrible way of doing business. i'm hoping those business leaders talk to president oba...

Pending before the house, only about $4 billion, even is expected to be spent this year. so, more than 90% of that isn't expected to be spent until next year at the earliest. that part needs to go into the normal appropriation process, where it-follow the normal scrutiny it's supposed to be given to spending bills. >> neil: the argument has always been, congressman, ya, ya, ya, we know this this way things happen in washington, they add on and throw in goodies. but get the money to us. what do you say to that? >> to politicians, like chris christie, who i'm sure believe they're doing right by ...

>> that is ridiculous to see it happening. we to reel in the purse strings because they're out of control. some of the administrators are out of control. we're trying to do that in the house. >> eric: what do we do here? they go to vegas and spend money on sushi and clowns. this is a picture of jeffrey neely with a couple of glasses on wine. that is on our dime, right? >> it's on your dime. but the biggest thing is we do it with overlap when we cut out national defense and men and women in uniform and putting more cost on back of the veterans. we have to continue to look at appropriation proce...