You were among the Republicans who joined with Democrats in voting to block the funding legislation from advancing. Why? One just basically thoroughly discussed the process. I've been here 15 years. We should have passed in that time frame 180 appropriation bills on time before the start of the fiscal year in which they were funding. We've passed 6. That's a 96.7% failure rate to address that. I propose and we voted on the Eliminate Shutdown Act. We get rid of this dysfunction for all time. (00:33–00:43)
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Asserts that only 6 out of 180 appropriation bills have been passed on time in 15 years.
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