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| https://www.enzi.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ContentRecord_id=278dd8c1-3a83-4f4e-972c-13f9cd72bd86 | Enzi talk about White House visit, funding government | 2013-10-14 | 2013 | 2013-10 | Republican | House | WY | Michael Enzi | E000285 | www.enzi.senate.gov | legacy | Washington, D.C. – As the federal government shutdown enters its second week, U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., spoke on the Senate floor Sunday about the recent Republican meeting at the White House, the dangers of passing an all-inclusive spending bill, and the importance of passing individual appropriation bills. White House visit (0:00) “We went to the White House the other day…I was very disappointed at the end because the end speech was ‘give me what I want for the shutdown in government, give me what I want for the debt limit increase, and then we can talk’. The reason we are talking is because we have the government shutdown and this looming debt ceiling problem.” Piecemeal approach to funding government (0:43) “The appropriation process has twelve separate budgets, twelve separate spending bills. It’s so we can do it piecemeal, so we can look at them with some depth, and maybe get some clarity out of the spending that we are doing.” “When we windup doing an omnibus bill…We won’t be able to look at any details; we won’t be able to make any amendments to it; we won’t be able to say what is effective and what isn’t. We will just keep doing what we’ve been doing, which is running up the national debt. We can’t afford to keep doing that.” Amendments to spending bills (1:24) “We could have the government running, people could be paid, but we need to do it through the regular process. We need to do twelve spending bills and do them over a period of at least a week each and have amendments to it.” “The reason we have 100 people here and 435 people over there, is so we have 535 opinions on what could be unintended consequences, or what is important, or what isn’t important. And if they are denied the right for amendments, they are being denied the right to voice for their constituents. It’s not for us, it’s for our constituents, and that’s why amendments are important." Click here to download the audio/video. | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |