Sen. Sessions says pass the House budget to avoid gov't shutdown

While Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) whines about the Tea Party's "extreme social agenda" in regards to the 2011 budget that his party failed to pass last year, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget committee has some straightforward advice to avoid a shutdown of the federal government: pass the House bill that will fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year.



Among Sessions' comments:

I hope we can get things worked out in a way that's consistent with the message of the last election. There was a shellacking of the big spenders... I think it's inevitable that we were going to reduce spending. That was the message of the last election. So to some degree, I think President Obama and the Democrat leadership, particularly in the Senate, were in denial.

Running a government without a budget--now that's extreme, Harry.

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