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Jim Bunning: “Even the fact that our President--somebody who talked about extending tax cuts to the wealthy and talked about extending…”

On the recordFebruary 25, 2010
Even the fact that our President--somebody who talked about extending tax cuts to the wealthy and talked about extending tax cuts, and the fact that nobody on the floor of this Senate--explain to me, with 60 Democrats and 40 Republicans, why someone on the Democratic side of the aisle didn't make a bill that would rescind those tax cuts? Your President--our President--wants to extend 85 percent of those same tax cuts without paying for them. He has a bill in his budget to do just that. Explain that. I have one more. Your President also wants to pass a $250 billion estate tax bill, also without paying for it. That is right. Well, it is right. Look it up. I am on the Budget Committee, so I see these bills. Is the Senator on the Budget Committee?
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Jim Bunning
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Feb 25, 2010

Editor's note · Context

The speaker is questioning the President's tax cut proposals and the lack of action from Senate Democrats.

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