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Is it not true that the resolution, as brought forth by the majority leader, is consistent with all the resolutions that have been brought forward in the last 10 Congresses relative to the language in that resolution specifically applying…
Aren't we talking about aftertax dollars? I mean basically what we are saying is if an American company generates American revenues, it has to pay taxes on those American revenues. When an international company generates American revenues…
You made some excellent points. The point that the company that invests overseas, if it is a foreign company, it has the right to do that, but under this rule, if it is an American company, it would not have that right if it were domiciled…
We have just been advised by CBO that the underlying bill, the Edwards-Collins bill, will have $8 billion savings assigned to it by CBO.
If the Senator will yield, at this time we cannot agree to such an understanding. As the Senator has noted, this amendment has generated a very significant interest. Debate has been, obviously, substantive and there is still a fair amount…
The Senator characterizes my views accurately, and I agree with the Senator that this bill should be moved independent of the drug bill. Unfortunately, the greater issue, or game, of the drug fight has been set up to lose so that nothing…
I simply ask the Senator if he is aware that under the bill brought forward to us, as amended, the 30-day rolling exclusivity would be able to continue to roll over, that under this bill it is potential--and in fact likely--that second and…
I was stunned, startled, and surprised by the Senator from Massachusetts who, upon--and I understand that he was in a conversation and probably didn't hear the Senator from Michigan ask me. But had he heard the Senator from Michigan ask…
Does the Senator consider it tortured that a Senator feels a representation made in markup is not being pursued?
Today, we do not have that. Unfortunately, our borders are porous. Our management of those borders is inefficient and the lines of authority are overlapping and confusing.
I would like to suggest that rather than pursuing the course that is maybe the full effort, which has reservations to it, which have been outlined, that we take a look at resolving a problem that we know we can resolve, which is to take…
I believe the practical effect of this approach would be that at least in one part of the question of how we protect our Nation, which is determining who is coming into the country and what they are doing when they are in the country, what…