Max Baucus: “I assume the next business is the vote on the payroll bill. Before that, I will take 1 minute. As we vote on this bill…”

“I assume the next business is the vote on the payroll bill. Before that, I will take 1 minute. As we vote on this bill and prepare to go home, I ask you to remember four numbers: No. 1, 160 million; that is the number of Americans who are helped by this bill. The next number is 1,000; that is $1,000 that each of those Americans is going to benefit by, by passage of the bill. The next number is 13 million, which is the number of Americans who are unemployed and would be dramatically helped by this bill. Finally, 48 million, which is the number of seniors in America who have doctors take care of their health care needs. Remember those four numbers and vote for this bill. Remember, the other body passed this bill by a margin of 293 to 132, evenly split between Republicans and Democrats. I urge passage of the bill. Mr. President, there are a number of mistakes in the Joint Explanatory Statement of the Committee of Conference on H.R. 3630 related to sections 7003 and 7004 and the current law description of those sections: No. 1, on page 36, in the paragraphs describing current law, the last clause of the last sentence of the third paragraph should read: A Senate point-of-order against emergency designations under BBEDCA exists pursuant to section 511 of public law 112 78. No.…”