We'll have two others as soon as we open back up. We have to have Democrats to help us. And so when that happens, we'll come together with the Senate and we'll start doing this. The reason that we're broken, the reason that we're shut down is for 25 years, long before I got in Congress, we stopped doing budgets and the appropriation, the basic fundamental job of Congress. And that's why you have deficits that are out of control. That's why debt is out of control. And so Congressman Cole, Speaker Johnson, myself, as the policy chair, are working really hard to get back into regular order. (02:43–02:55)
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Asserts that the government shutdown is due to Congress not doing budgets and appropriations for 25 years.
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