Madam President, it is my understanding that the Democrats have the first half of morning business. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator is correct.

Mr. President, I continue to receive letters weighing in on the issue of interchange fee reform. I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record letters or statements from the following organizations: the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, the…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent when the Senate completes its business today, it recess until 10 a.m. on Thursday, April 7; that following the prayer and pledge, the Journal of proceedings be approved to date, the time for the two…

My amendment revokes the provisions of this act from going into effect until the EPA administrator, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, certifies that the consequences of not regulating greenhouse gas emissions, and its…

I want to thank the gentleman from California for yielding this time and recognizing me for this discussion. Mr. Chairman, I am opposed to H.R. 910, the Upton-Inhofe dirty air act, because this bill is an extreme and excessive piece of…

I guess my response is, with all due respect, prove me wrong. If there is no health care risk, let the GAO independent analysis prove us wrong. But there's a lot at stake here, and I would defy anyone to say that greenhouse gases are not…

My amendment would require that the GAO report to Congress the results of a study of health care costs in the U.S. as affected by the elimination of EPA regulation under this act. Further, the report would also detail health care costs in…

We spend a lot of time these days talking about costs--costs of regulation, costs of repeal, costs of implementation. Conveniently missing from this discussion are the human costs: lives lost, those altered by heart attacks, asthma, and…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill, add the following: SEC. 5. GAO REPORT. Not later than one year after the date of…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill, add the following: SEC. 5. LIMITATION ON APPLICABILITY. The provisions of this Act…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Illinois will be postponed. {time} 1750 Amendment No. 11 Offered by Mr. Doyle The Acting…

One of the things that they say, that Paul Ryan says, We all have to sacrifice. Shared sacrifice. I believe in that. I think that's a good idea. But some people have been sacrificing for a long time. If you drew another line starting at…

Well, what it says is that from 1979, at that end, to 2005, this is the growth in income over certain income categories. And you can see way down at the end there is a little bracket--even if you can't, you get the idea. There is a little…

Just the people who need it, right? Just the people who need a tax break. Isn't that astonishing that they should actually pay less?

I am so happy to join you. And I thank you for coming down to the floor each week and making the point that we have choices in the United States of America. We can put our people back to work. We can reduce our debt and our deficit, but we…

Yeah. Take it from Medicare and give them a tax break. And, by the way, the top tax bracket in the United States of America right now starts at $375,000. So if you make $27 million or $375,000, you're still paying the same tax rate. What I…

I yield myself the balance of my time. I only have 15 seconds. I heard two crazy things. Number one, this doesn't change the Clean Air Act at all. This prevents them from going outside of the legislative will of the American people and…

This is an interesting amendment. This is an amendment to a bill to study the cost of regulations that if this bill goes through, regulations won't exist. I don't get it, but okay. We don't need another study. We need jobs. I come from the…