Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows: (Purpose: To ensure that no State experiences a net job loss…

Madam President, I have another amendment and I ask unanimous consent to temporarily set aside the pending motions and amendments so that I may offer another amendment which is also at the desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows: (Purpose: To repeal the CLASS Act) At the end of subtitle B…

Sure. I would ask the Chair, is there a number on those amendments? The PRESIDING OFFICER. Yes, 3639 and 3640.

Madam President, 3639 and 3640--one dealing with student loans, the other dealing with striking the CLASS Act from the underlying bill.

Mr. President, this amendment gets at the issue of the student loan program and what this bill would propose to do to that program. Under this bill, students in this country would have one option to get a student loan--the Federal…

Mr. President, this amendment would strike the CLASS Act from the bill. The CLASS Act, as we all know, is a new entitlement program. We have two entitlement programs that are already destined to be bankrupt that have unfunded liabilities…

Mr. President, pursuant to section 904 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and section 4(G)(3) of the statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, I move to waive all applicable sections of those acts and applicable budget resolutions for…

Madam President, I ask my colleague, it seems to me, as he described this reconciliation trailer bill that the House will use, first, to try to fix elements of the Senate bill they do not like, and then that reconciliation bill would come…

Well, is it possible, I would ask both my colleagues, that the process the House is using--and by the way, this deeming the bill passed seems to be a very curious way of trying to pass legislation of this consequence, which literally…

Let me, if I might, explore this a little further with the Senator from New Hampshire and follow up with a question that the Senator from Texas asked. As I understand this then, the Cadillac tax provisions that were in the Senate bill--and…

I think it is an important one point. I hear articulated by our colleagues on the other side the whole process by which the House is acting on this legislation. I served for three terms in the House of Representatives. I still have…