The Hill News

When Denny Hastert started as Speaker of the House, he promised, after four tumultuous years of Newt Gingrich, to bring regular order back to the lower chamber.

To Hastert, regular order meant that the House would do its business in the right order. First, it would do a budget. Then it would work on its 13 appropriations bills, and if there were reconciliation instructions, that too would come after the budget was completed.

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