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Kay Bailey Hutchison is a former U.S. Senator from Texas, serving from 1993 to 2013. A member of the Republican Party, she was the first woman to represent Texas in the Senate. During her tenure, Hutchison was known for her work on issues such as space exploration, military funding, and education. She played a significant role in advocating for NASA and was a strong supporter of human spaceflight initiatives. Hutchison also served as the chair of the Senate Republican Conference and was involved in various bipartisan efforts throughout her career.
we are not talking about a tax cut today. We are talking about a tax correction. We are talking about 21 million married couples in this country having tax equity. We have heard the arguments: This is a tax for the rich. Is a schoolteacher…
We believe it is un-American to make people choose between love and money. That is what the marriage penalty does. In America, if you make $30,000 and you are a schoolteacher and you marry a policeman who makes $30,000, all of a sudden…
Mr. President, if the highway trust fund were going to be affected at all, I could not be a sponsor of this amendment. But the highway trust fund is specifically held harmless. We passed a budget resolution in this Senate that said we…
I thank Senator Collins, the cosponsor of this amendment, who has worked with me because of the very example that she just gave. She has the situation in her State where this actually has curbed the creativity of public schools in offering…
I want to refute some of those remarks, especially the ones that referred to these counties in Texas, and give the other side of the story. She attempted to show that municipal employees in Texas, particularly Galveston County, are not…
I have been on the floor for a long time this morning. I will address two major points I keep hearing because it is important that we refute those points. First, we are not setting a deadline. We are not withdrawing troops. The Byrd-Warner…
Will still get an earned-income tax credit when they make $33,000. There is no excuse. It is time to let us take up amendments on this bill and vote marriage tax penalty relief for the hard-working people of our country. I yield the floor.
I would vote for it because I have voted for it before. It is not a bad plan. But I think the Republican plan is better. Here is why. First of all, our plan helps more people who are in the lower levels, the middle-income levels, who…
If we took our plan and yours and put them together, I would think that would be better than the Republican plan. Your plan alone is not as good as the Republican plan because it doesn't give that much relief. Our plan gives $2,500 more in…
I am confused. It appears the distinguished deputy minority leader suggested you were not conducting the Senate like the Senate. Yet you have offered to go forward on the bill, you have offered to have the Democratic amendment that is a…
I can't imagine why the distinguished minority would object to morning business so Members from his side and Members from our side could talk until, hopefully, the majority and minority leader are able to come to an agreement on some kind…
I would just say, the distinguished Senator from Kansas is making a very good point. He has raised this point for the last 3 weeks. That is, are the Democrats going to block consideration of a real marriage tax penalty relief bill by…
I guarantee Kervin and Marsha Johnson believe it is an emergency, as they are filling out their tax forms this week. Kervin is a D.C. police officer. His wife is a Federal employee. They were married last July. This year they will pay…
We are going to take care of Medicare. We are going to have reform that includes prescription drugs of some kind. But we are saying a good idea is in the wrong place, and it is going to absolutely eliminate the ability for us to correct a…
I thank Senator Coverdell for his remarks. He laid out the fairness question very well. I thank him for the leadership he has provided in trying to give tax relief to hard-working American families on several fronts. Of course, he was the…
on March 7, 1959, history was made when the first aviator charted over a million miles in a jet. Although it seems commonplace today, at the time, traveling a million miles was indeed, an aviation milestone. Well, today, more than forty…
That is exactly right, and 250,000 barrels a day could come on line practically immediately.
I think the chairman is exactly right. In fact, if we helped these small stripper wells and these little guys so they could afford to go back in and drill again, we would be creating the same number of barrels as we import from Saudi…
They couldn't exist when prices fell to $11, $10, or $9 a barrel. They cease to exist. Some of them will never come back.
When the price goes to $18 a barrel, there are no tax credits--nothing--because they can make it on their own.
this year commemorates the 88th anniversary of the founding of this outstanding organization and designates the week of March 11, 2000 as National Girl Scout week. On March 16, 1950, the Girl Scouts of the United States of America became…
this amendment adds flexibility to our school systems. I am working with Senator Jeffords and his committee, and Senator Leahy as well, on the ESEA reauthorization. I wish to lay down the marker with this amendment because I think it is…
today, for the next 30 minutes, we are going to talk about a subject that I think perhaps is the highest priority we have in Congress, and that is to correct a terrible inequity in the tax laws of our country--a penalty that we exact on…
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