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Ron Johnson: “We pass budgets now but they're just to facilitate a…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Western Wisconsin Journal: Senate Candidate Ron Johnson

Published | Video Starts at 11:11

They hang all kinds of ornaments on it. It's completely dysfunctional. So this is what we need to do. We need to pass a budget. That would be a good start. We pass budgets now but they're just to facilitate a reconciliation package. This would be a budget to actually facilitate and guide an appropriation process past that I'm looking right now. (11:11–11:16)

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Asserts that current budgets are passed only to facilitate reconciliation packages.

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