And if we fail to count it as an additional source of revenue being held by the Federal Government, is it not true that it would be subject to a budget point of order, which would then require 60 votes, and that would allow the oil companies to find 41 friends on the Senate floor--and I think I know where they will start looking--to defeat this effort to create this tax?
Senator Durbin discusses the implications of budget rules on proposed taxation of oil companies.
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