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I do agree the country needs a budget. That is critical. But regrettably, the budget he has brought forward is not a good budget for this country. It is a budget that is inconsistent in many areas, but at its essence is the fact that it…
I wish to reinforce the point made by the chairman, which is there has to be reason in this process. We have been through these vote-athons before. We know they tend to be a little chaotic. Quite honestly, there are a lot of people who…
What is the Senator's offset for this? As I understand it, it is money selected from the tax gap; is that correct?
The Cornyn amendment tries to focus SCHIP on kids. That is what it should be focused on. The problem we have today is that SCHIP is being used as a stalking-horse to basically ensure all sorts of people who do not qualify in the concept of…
I think the answer to your question, if I might interject, is it increases the debt by $195 billion.
Would it be appropriate--if I can ask the chairman of the Finance Committee or the chairman of the Budget Committee--I want to get to what the tax cuts are specifically, but they would be extended if they expired in 2010, 2011, or 2012…
I will conclude my comments by saying that I hope the Senator from North Dakota is not cynical, because of his rather negative view of what this amendment will do. I hope it does not come to fruition. I hope what the amendment does is…
I don't want to prolong the debate because the Senators from New Mexico and Tennessee have an amendment ready to go. But I would note that the most recent inconsistency on this is not our side, it would be on the Democratic side, in that…
My point was that this will increase the piggy bank available to nondefense discretionary to be used for earmarking because it will take defense dollars and move them over to nondefense discretionary accounts. I don't argue with the…
On the issue of loopholes, the Senator is a leading expert in this Chamber. Mr. Conrad, the Senator from North Dakota, the chairman of the committee, has, on a number of occasions, said as to offshore tax planning, when you go on Google…
That it is the sense of Congress that Congress shall not take any action that will endanger United States military forces in the field, including the elimination or reduction of funds for troops in the field, as such action with respect to…
Like everyone, I was very impressed with the work of the 9/11 Commission. I think they did a superb job of pointing out what were, unfortunately, very significant problems which we have as a nation relative to our preparedness to fight…