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Henry Cuellar: “We passed 11 of [the appropriation bills] last year.”

Featuring: Henry Cuellar, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 28

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Capitol Report February 2015

Published | Video Starts at 01:17

Since the budget is so huge, you know, somewhere between 3.7, almost $4 trillion every year, we have to break it up in 12 different appropriation bills. So We passed 11 of [the appropriation bills] last year. But the one of the most important, one that deals with border security called the Homeland Security appropriation bill, was left pending by our friends and the majority, our Republicans, … (01:17–01:21)

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