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I have one last question. I find myself saying it doesn't hurt me. I wasn't in the room. It didn't hurt me at all. As a matter of fact, because my income is over $130,000, those folks making the decision in that room helped me out. I guess…
Absolutely. It would be fairer to provide full deductibility for the self-employed. The Senator from Iowa and I both represent a lot of self-employed families, many of whom are farmers, and they are increasingly going into town to get the…
I represent low-income working families without health insurance subsidizing my health insurance. I have a claim on their income. They have no claim on mine, and I am getting a big tax cut. I just say to my friend, does that seem fair to…
It seems nobody was in the room to say: Hey, that doesn't seem to be fair. If you look at the average household--Nebraska and Iowa are pretty close to being the same --the average household in Nebraska pays more payroll taxes than they pay…
I am very sympathetic to the large amount of taxes that higher income Americans are paying. They have been contributing a substantial amount to deficit reduction since President Bush signed into law an increase in their taxes in 1990 and…
Well, their bill does not have across-the-board tax cuts. There has been a debate going on between the Vice President and the Governor of Texas as to whether or not there should be an across-the-board tax cut of $1.6 trillion that the…
I don't know. I am certain we will have a chance to look at the precise numbers that CBO and others have done. As I look at the numbers right now, it seems our friends on the other side of the aisle, having put this together without…
I heard the Governor of Texas say he does not like the Vice President's tax cut proposal because it is targeted. Doesn't it seem that the tax cut proposal that is being brought to us--though it might be hard for my friends on the other…
My experience is that all 100 people in this Senate--every single one of them--are trying to do the best job they can. They have different points of views. The Republicans bring certain things to the arguments sometimes that Democrats…
Mr.Speaker, I rise to join my Democratic colleagues to express my outrage at the ommission of immigration fairness from the Commerce--Justice Appropriation Bill. I am a Caribbean American and I am calling on my colleagues to vote against…
I am here this morning to call on my colleagues to include the provisions of the Immigration Fairness Act in the final Commerce-Justice bill. In my district as in all of yours, we have families that have been awaiting reconciliation with…
Mr. Speaker, as my colleague the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pallone) said, the big issues that remain before us as we come close to the end of the 106th Congress are the same ones that we have not been able to get the Republican…
I cannot give you a specific number as you asked, but I know that it is multiplied severalfold because of the inability to take the drugs. For example, we know that if someone is able to take their hypertensive medication or their diabetic…
I was fortunate that I was in a fee for service. But if you listen to the doctors who came to the Senate a few weeks ago, they talked about the fact that they just in good conscience sometimes had to just take the risk of going against the…
I rise with great pleasure in support of H.R. 782, the Older Americans Act Amendments of 2000. Today's consideration of H.R. 782 does bring to the floor a very solid, very significant bipartisan legislative accomplishment that is 5 long…
at Pier 12 in the Norfolk Navy Base, along with the Presiding Officer in Norfolk, VA, I joined 10,000 others to mourn and to pay our respects to the families of 17 U.S. Navy sailors who were killed or who are missing following the…
If I could respond to say the Senator from New Mexico and any of my colleagues who are uncomfortable and wish I would not do this, if I had not done this the last 6 or 7 years, it is the fault of the Senator from New Mexico. You and…
many of the things we do in the Senate involve making investments in America's future. Investments in research through the National Science Foundation or investments in infrastructure development through the Department of Transportation…