María Elvira Salazar: “this is a fine moment for the Senate because it is a group of Senators coming together and saying we need to jump-start…”

“this is a fine moment for the Senate because it is a group of Senators coming together and saying we need to jump-start the economy, we cannot delay, we need to move forward very quickly. Because of the action this Chamber will take later today, we will see 100 million Americans receive tax rebate checks in the mail that then will help us jump-start the economy. But as Senator Baucus and Senator Grassley have pointed out, we have taken a package from the House and have significantly improved it, significantly improved it in two major ways. First, the 21 million seniors who receive Social Security who were left out of the House package will now be receiving those tax rebates in the mail. So it is important to note this is a very important step in us standing up for the elders of America, for whom we have so much respect. The second major improvement in this legislation is we also have honored our disabled veterans, 250,000 disabled veterans, who were left out of the House package, out of the package negotiated by the White House. We have included those in this legislation. So in that way, this legislation represents a very significant improvement upon the package that came over from the House.”