Judd Gregg: “the practical effect of this is to raise taxes. That is the only effect it has. If you take the pay-go language and put…”

“the practical effect of this is to raise taxes. That is the only effect it has. If you take the pay-go language and put it on top of the 5-year budget we offer today, the only thing it will impact is the fact that taxes will have to be increased to pay for extending the rate cuts, for extending the repeal of the death tax, and capital gains and dividends. It is not pay-go, it is tax-go. For all practical matters, this is a vote on whether you want to raise taxes. I yield back the remainder of my time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to amendment No. 3013. The yeas and nays have been ordered. The clerk will call the roll. The bill clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 50, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 38 Leg.] YEAS--50 Akaka Baucus Bayh Biden Bingaman Boxer Byrd Cantwell Carper Chafee Clinton Collins Conrad Dayton Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Harkin Inouye Jeffords Johnson Kennedy Kerry Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln McCain Menendez Mikulski Murray Nelson (FL) Nelson (NE) Obama Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Salazar Sarbanes Schumer Snowe Stabenow Voinovich Wyden NAYS--50 Alexander Allard Allen Bennett Bond Brownback Bunning Burns Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Coleman Cornyn Craig Crapo DeMint DeWine Dole Domenici Ensign Enzi Frist Graham Grassley Gregg Hagel Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Kyl Lott Lugar Martinez McConnell Murkowski Roberts Santorum Sessions Shelby Smith Specter Stevens S…”