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Arguing for is the negotiations in this completely bizarre concept of a conference committee in regular order at a time when you have shut down the government. it is a very strange message and it speaks to how far they have had to retreat. they're not even arguing for anything anymore. >> yeah. when the regular order -- when i saw on twitter -- >> i made you crack. >> when i saw on twitter, everybody is watching it kraep toward the deadline. they're going on ping back and forth. drum roll and the answer is -- appoint conferrees to the conference committee. are you kidding me? >> this is what d...

John bainer to appoint conferrees so they can work the through the difference. the house representatives have said no for six months, the tea party caucus and the senate has said we have no interest in that because we do not trust the process. with one hour to go, the house of representatives has bded now after six months of saying no to a conference committee, with the government about to shut down, with checks not going to roll out and people being furloughed and staff members facing uncertainty, right now at 11:07 eastern time, now would be a precisely wonderful time to return to regular or...

He said no. he refused to appoint anybody to negotiate on the budget. we had votes calling upon the house. calling upon the speaker to appoint budget negotiators. they voted no. they voted to deny the house an opportunity to appoint budget conferrees. what happened in the senate? i believe at least 15 times, 18 times. 18 times. the majority leader harry reid and the budget chairman patty murray asked to appoint conferrees to work out budget issues and 18 time, republicans led by people like senator lee said no. they blocked them. i would point out that senator mccain at the time said it was, q...

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Budget, no path. well, it turns out they weren't serious about getting a federal budget. we did get a house budget. we did get a senate budget. but no federal budget. so why don't we have a budget? because the law requires that by april 15th, you have negotiators between the house and the senate, meet and work out these differences. try to make compromises for the greater good. they refused to do that. i want to call your attention to a resolution that we introduced in the house, kratss, way back in april. april 23rd. resolution, very simple. expressing the sense of the house of representative...