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I support mandatory initiatives in this area. What I am concerned about is that these allowances--which really are a consumption tax, in my opinion--will essentially be used to greatly expand the Government. If we were to take that section…
This bill has a lot of substantive problems. It probably will aggravate food consumption for nations around the world, their ability to produce product, and certainly dramatically increase the cost of product in the United States. It…
I rise to speak about one specific element of the next four votes which has been come to be known as the Webb GI bill; a sincere attempt and a positive effort to try address to the issue of updating the GI benefits. I regret that that bill…
We are here to vote on the override of some portion of the farm bill which the President has vetoed. First, there is the great irony that the bill we are voting on isn't the bill that passed the Senate or the House. It is some element of…
I have the time. So we are talking about big dollars, real dollars and lots of new spending. Under any scenario, we are talking a number which is going to drive large tax increases not only next year but in the outyears for working…
It is important that the Congress have a budget. It is uniquely the Congress's responsibility to have a budget. Although the President's budget gets soundly beaten about the ears here, the President's budget is not a factor in the sense…
No, I wouldn't, because $300 billion is a 5-year number. But I thank the Senator for making it clear that he agrees with the fact that $30 billion is a lot of money. Maybe he doesn't agree that $30 billion is a lot of money. I think $30…
I don't consider $300 billion a small amount of money. Now, maybe it is a small amount of money in North Dakota, but I do know that $300 billion would run the State of New Hampshire for I think approximately 10 years. Maybe it would only…
Well, Madam President, I am happy to reclaim my time. Thirty billion dollars is a lot of money in New Hampshire. It would run the State for 10 years.
It would cost $1.3 billion to correct this. That proposal is nowhere in this budget; nowhere in this budget. It is hard to believe we couldn't even do $1.3 billion when we have been directed to do it, when we passed the law. It was our law…
What this instruction says is, we should not be spending $1 trillion on discretionary accounts around here. This budget for the first time, the Democratic budget, because of its increases last year on top of the increases in this budget…
I would simply make the point, in response to the discussion about this bill and the budget, there is no way anybody with a straight face can represent that this bill is fiscally responsible in the context of the budget. When this bill…