As the chair knows, earlier this year we already passed three appropriation bills across the floor of the Senate, something that hadn't been done before the August recess going back as far as 2018, I believe so It's been a long time since we've enacted under regular order appropriation bills. And that, Mr. President, ought to be the goal. The goal here should be to fund the government the way it was intended to be funded through the normal appropriations process. (01:21–01:41)
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