My colleague is once again right. Now is the time for us to act wisely and not overreact. Several excellent ideas have been put forth by both parties. A payroll tax holiday was not in the House passed bill. The Senate has never passed such a bill and should not, at any time, be used in a stimulus package passed by either body.
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Reclaiming my time, I do not believe that the pay-go is looking towards the Office of Management and Budget as having to certify things before we do it.
I want to add another provision there, that over the last 3 years, hourly wages have increased in the United States by 8 percent. So a lot of this stuff we have heard is absolutely false.
I can see both sides of pay-go, but I cannot see both sides of delegating legislative authority to the executive branch no matter who controls the executive branch.
Yes, as sad as that is. There are some bright people on the other side of the aisle that could really help us get this thing done. When I did welfare reform back in 1996, we finally got some help from the other side and President Clinton…
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