Tina Smith: “if Senator Breaux were offering a perfecting amendment, I would take it. But he is offering a poisonous amendment. What…”

“if Senator Breaux were offering a perfecting amendment, I would take it. But he is offering a poisonous amendment. What his amendment would effectively do is limit the ways that these dollars can be used in America to create American jobs. The more it is limited, the more jobs will be limited. So if my colleagues vote for his amendment, they are voting against job creation in their State. The Senator says he wants a guarantee. My mother used to say the only guarantees in life are death and taxes. What is in this bill are penalties to the Tax Code. If my colleagues want to make sure these things are spent the way they are described, then these companies have to follow the plan they lay out before the IRS. If they do not, they lose the deduction and the penalties attached in the Tax Code will attach to them as well. I urge my colleagues to vote against the Breaux-Feinstein amendment. This bill is important to create American jobs.”