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Mr. President, before the Senator from Louisiana leaves the floor, I just want to commend her for the passion she has brought to this debate, as well as the reason and the wisdom she has brought to this debate. This is a bill that is…
I think Susan Eisenhower would like to make a comment.
Our purpose ought to be to make sure this gets done, that we get this Memorial underway.
Congress stripped them away from you. Not only are you receiving less money in your budget, but money was taken away from you that you would have otherwise have used for good purposes.
Let's be clear. We can try to paint this however we wish, and we should do hearings on this particular issue on the budget, because Americans have paid for the administration of the Social Security programs.
We have to make sure that we continue to push the SSA to have the tools in place.
We have $5 trillion more in debt right now than we had 3 years ago, $5 trillion. Unless that is dealt with, our economy will collapse.
We will miss Don Payne. And I will miss his aggressive refutations of the points that I make, as he always did so as a fine gentleman.
I am sorry. I love my colleagues who have such great hearts that they want to help autistic children in Africa and elsewhere, but you are going to have to convince me of why it is necessary to borrow more money from communist China in…
Why are we providing money to them? Actually, why are we borrowing money from them in order to give it back to them?
Why are we paying China? Why are we borrowing money from China to give it back to them like that when they are spending their money on weapons aimed at the United States?
I am opposed to free trade with dictatorship, especially the world's worst human rights abuser.
Sometimes you look back and Congress has done exactly the wrong thing to achieve the goals that they have set out, but we are doing this in a very systematic way and within a few years we have seen this commercial space group expand and…
I was of course here and I am the author of the Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act of 2004.
If we don't want the government to run everything, the government has limited liability, I mean, in everything it does.
limited liability, which is of course, I think, a very serious issue.
I would like you to convince me of why it is necessary for us to provide this type of aid to the world's worst human rights abuser.