WASHINGTON DC (November 18, 2019) — Prepared floor remarks by Senator Charles "Chuck" Grassley on Senate Democrats blocking Appropriations:

 

The minority leader [Charles E Schumer] is so committed to his campaign rhetoric, calling the Senate a political graveyard, that he’s killing the House-passed Appropriations package that funds our troops.

Leader [Mitch] McConnell has twice moved to take up the House bill that funds the Pentagon as well as the Departments of State, Health and Human Services, Energy, Education, and others, only to be blocked by Democrats.

The minority leader claims to be shocked and outraged that the Senate isn’t taking up partisan messaging bills from the House when it’s very normal for both Houses to not take up every bill passed in the other chamber.

But, one thing we have got to do is fund the government.

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