Bob Corker

this amendment is a balanced approach that strives to give the U.S. Postal Service maximum flexibility in multiple areas as they work toward financial stability. Here is the best part. According to the Congressional Budget Office, this…

I call up amendment No. 2083. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The bill clerk read as follows: The Senator from Tennessee [Mr. Corker], proposes an amendment numbered 2083. The amendment is as follows: On page 39, strike line…

I assume that all of you would support us having conditions in there that say they cannot use G-fees to pay for things other than actual insurance for the GSEs.

I rise today to speak about amendment No. 2083, which I am offering to the bill that is before us. I think all of us know the U.S. Postal Service is absolutely not sustainable in its current form. Mail volume has greatly declined over the…

how much time do I have? I understand it might be 10, 15 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The time is not controlled.

just 20 seconds, not to rebut anything that has been said. I think the Senator from Maine and I have a very different view about the ways to solve the post office issues. But I just want to thank her for her tone. I want to thank the…

I think the arming of the rebels is now becoming something that is more mainstream in thinking.

Well, I appreciate that.

If we keep going down the path of the armed rebels base and just how that ends up--so for that to happen, our military is going to be involved in some form or fashion.

This is a very massive problem. I mean, people are not thinking in advance of those kind of things down the road.

I do think the environment here is moving more towards tax reform that doesn't incent, that actually does away with many of the $1.2 trillion in tax breaks that we give each year.

I thank you for calling the hearing, and I look forward to listening to our witnesses.

This is a massive, massive problem, one that the Finance Committee and others here all need to be involved in dealing with.

I think it's worked out very well for us.

If you look at where we are today, where in today's dollars the average American family making average wages puts about $119,000 into the Medicare program over their lifetime in today's dollars, and that same family takes out of Medicare…

We're spending three times as much as we're taking in, and I'm just saying that as politicians, we have difficulty aligning those things.

this last March, 64 Senators--32 on each side--wrote a letter to the President asking for real tax reform and real entitlement reform. I think most of us know today's exercise is a political exercise. It is not intended to deal with…

today I rise to speak about the subject our Nation is focused on as the Supreme Court takes up some of the constitutional provisions of the health care law that was passed a couple of years ago in this body. Obviously, the courts will…

I would look forward to working with you in a way that really is just a technical corrections bill and not some political statement.

in December, with the distinguished leadership of the Senators from Vermont and South Carolina, we passed the National Guard Empowerment Act as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act with truly bipartisan support, as…

I do not believe there is a one-size-fits-all solution to this problem.

We think we are in good shape.

This is the amendment, as modified; is that correct? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator is correct. The amendment (No. 1785), as modified, is as follows: At the end of division D, add the following: SEC. __. DISCRETIONARY SPENDING CAP…

We have to offset discretionary spending by $11 billion. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Hawaii.

I think what I have heard today is there is a lot of innovation that is taking place in this field.