John Ensign

I ask my friend from California this question. It was brought up earlier that the money is going to come back anyway. The Senator from California has a chart in front of her. I ask her if she could explain the chart and that the money…

first of all, there is not fungibility this time. Senator Boxer and I worked very closely to make sure there were very tight uses of the money, and there is going to be IRS audits afterward to make sure they use the money exactly how the…

I was aware of the new numbers coming out of Joint Tax. But the outside economists say this will probably mean $45 billion in direct revenues, not including revenues produced when you actually have people in jobs and people paying taxes…

The opponents of this measure are saying the Joint Tax seems to be the experts we should trust. Is my friend from California aware, I wonder, that in 2004 when we were doing this debate, the Joint Tax Committee estimated this measure would…

What their studies are showing today, as they showed before we acted in 2004, is that money is going to come back. The Treasury actually will be helped. Jobs will be created in the United States. And a side benefit is $565 billion comes…

I rise because the most deliberative body in the world is facing a moment of great challenge but also great possibility. We should all feel the grave responsibility weighing on each of us as we debate this bill. If we pass legislation that…

A big deal has been made of which economists we can trust. I ask my friend from California, when Joint Tax scored this last time, not only were they wrong on revenue estimates, but they estimated that about $100 billion or so would come…

first of all, I wish to congratulate and thank my colleague from California, Senator Boxer. A few years ago, we worked on an amendment together. Not a lot of people knew about it. The first time it was voted on in the Finance Committee…

if an institution, if a bank, if a company is too big to fail, then they are just too big.

This country is facing high energy costs right now, with gasoline over $4 a gallon. Home heating oil is being affected by the price of energy. Natural gas prices have gone up by over 70 percent. It is affecting literally every single…

I will object. I have been attempting, with the Senator in the chair right now, to attach the Clean Energy Tax Stimulus amendment to the housing bill and get a vote on it. This is an amendment that passed on the housing bill a couple…

In closing that people have said--we can't do this. The House of Representatives would object because it isn't ``paid for.'' Well, there is $2.4 billion in unoffset tax provisions included in the Dodd/Shelby amendment and a large amount of…