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American businessperson, former Republican United States Senator from Oklahoma
I urge my colleagues to seriously consider this resolution. I will readily say it is not perfect. It is a result of a lot of work from individuals on both sides of the aisle who considered and put this resolution together. This resolution…
When the Senator was talking about judicial experience or legal experience, correct me if I am wrong, but didn't Miguel Estrada argue 15 cases before the Supreme Court? And doesn't that mean he has a lot of experience, legal experience…
The modification has a tax increase to pay for it, I understand that, but that may have some problems in itself. I want all of our colleagues to know the amendment has not been modified as of yet.
I warn my colleague, she cannot be throwing up a modification and saying we want you to accept this when the amendment deals with substantive issues. The amendment deals with entitlements, with issues that are under the Finance Committee…
I heard the Senator mention a modification, but I have not seen it yet. I am concerned in reading page 15, section 302, about budget scorekeeping, that the Senator is modifying the Budget Act or trying to waive the Budget Act.
Colleagues, let's have regular order in the Senate. Why have the Finance Committee have jurisdiction over an issue if we are just going to skip the committee and consider it on the floor? Are we going to do this with every authorizing…
I am going to be very strict when people start engaging in dialog and not going through the Chair. The Senate is a great institution. It is not a little chat club. I am warning my colleagues, they should go through the Chair. To say that…
Should not have. That was the breaking of a precedent in every Congress of never mentioning the funding resolution. Mr. President, 1977 was the first time funding was ever raised, and I do not believe it was part of the reorganizing…
I appreciate my colleagues comments and agree with them that the revenues collected through the federal gas tax should be used to maintain and improve our transportation infrastructure. I will work with my colleagues to ensure this is the…
I will tell my colleague, I will never agree to this language passing. I will also tell my colleague, if she is politicizing this, talking about the first Bush recession and the second Bush recession, the first compensation package did not…
The proposal before us still has the adjusted insured unemployment rate to where it includes the following paragraph: Except that individuals exhausting their right to regular compensation during the most recent three calendar months for…
I believe the bill offers 26 additional weeks for anybody who just came into the system.
Just to clarify, I believe that is not a 13-week extension; it is a 26-week extension. Also, just for your information, the House may soon try to pass legislation that would eliminate this cliff as of December 31. So I want the Senator to…
Just to inform my colleague from Minnesota, that current law is a 26-week State program and a 13-week Federal program, with some high unemployment States getting an additional 13 weeks. You are trying to modify the original 13 weeks and…
I believe the trigger is different from the one in the early 1990s. The fact is, if you want to help people, consider a straight extension of the program we have in current law.
I admonish my colleague--that is a strong word--I inform my colleague that a person could exhaust their benefits, find a job and still would be counted as being unemployed.
May I ask the sponsor of the bill, doesn't this, in effect, provide for a 26-week extension of Federal unemployment compensation instead of 13 weeks?
So the Senator's bill permits individuals who have exhausted their unemployment compensation, and then may have subsequently found a job, to be counted in the unemployment figures, according to this Adjusted Insured Unemployment Rate…
I compliment the Senator for his leadership on this. I have actually read the resolution. I think it is a very good product, bipartisan, due in large part to the Senator's leadership. I remember working with him on the 1991 resolution, as…
I wish to speak on this resolution. First, I compliment my friend and colleague, the Senator from Florida, Mr. Nelson, for his speech and for his tenacity in trying to remind everyone about the condition of Naval Aviator Speicher. I think…
I appreciate that. I believe I heard one or two Senators say Secretary Thompson supports this bill. It is my understanding that that is not the case. Secretary Thompson may support the thrust of it. I understand he supports the regulation…
I don't think asking a couple of questions is too much to ask. Is this a clean 13-week extension in unemployment compensation?
I will just repeat to my colleague, you may find a quote from the RNC, and I am sure we could finds things from the Democratic National Committee to be quite partisan. What I stated was that the President did not state what was alluded to…
If one wanted to get drought aid to farmers, would it make sense, since that has been agreed to in the underlying bill, to have a vote on the Craig amendment, and it could be an up-or-down vote or a motion to table, dispose of the Craig…
You mentioned drought aid. Am I not correct that drought aid cannot pass unless the bill passes?
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