Byron Dorgan: “let me just take 30 seconds. I do not think the majority party will want to establish this as a precedent. They would be…”

“let me just take 30 seconds. I do not think the majority party will want to establish this as a precedent. They would be here in full force, very angry with this, were it being done to them, were we to create multiple reconciliation bills in this manner. But the main point I want to make is, we are told that this third reconciliation bill would violate the Byrd rule unless the tax reductions are sunsetted, or unless some other expenditure reductions occur or some other tax increases occur, in order to pay for the tax cuts in the out years. When that point was affirmed, that it would violate the Byrd rule unless that occurred, the chairman of the Budget Committee said that there would be caps on entitlements and other expenditure cuts in the out years. They would have to be done in this third reconciliation bill. I ask, does anybody have information about what we are talking about? These would be cuts beyond what comes in the current budget recommendations of the Senate, so what kind of caps on entitlements or future cuts in the entitlement programs is the majority party proposing in order not to violate the Byrd rule? I ask the question only because the chairman of the Budget Committee made this point a few moments ago. If that is the intent, and if the information exists to tell us and the American people what that intent is in more specific detail, I think now would be the time for the majority to give us those details.”