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On the recordMarch 17, 2010
Mr. President, I will support the motion to waive the point of order. I believe I have 1 minute left. The world is topsy-turvy. My Republican colleagues are opposing a tax cut to businesses, large and small, that hire people. This is exactly what we should do. We don't want to be saying to workers we can't help them find a job. There are shades of Herbert Hoover in what my colleague is saying, and I don't think many of my colleagues on either side of the aisle would support that. Let me say this about the budget point of order. The Joint Tax Committee, which we all respect, says these provisions are budget neutral. We have found a way to hire workers, help businesses with tax cuts to hire them, and keep it budget neutral. Yet there is still opposition. When will it end? When will the bipartisan kind of feeling in this body return? This is a bipartisan measure that lives by many of the tenets the party on the other side has stood for, for decades. Mr. President, is there any time remaining? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator's time has expired.
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Chuck Schumer
Democratic · New York

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