After the votes? The PRESIDING OFFICER. There will be 2 minutes equally divided.

So that time could be used after 8:10? The PRESIDING OFFICER. That is correct. After the votes occur.

I thank the chair, and I assume, then, that she refuses to clarify the ambiguity, the certain option to increase taxes by another $500 billion. That could be eliminated simply by making the suggestion I just announced. She is rejecting…

I think we have confusion on the time limits. I had reserved 10 minutes; I have 17 on the motion. I think there has been some confusion about it. What is the status of the time? I ask unanimous consent for 10 minutes. The PRESIDING…

it is good to be considering a budget again. It has been 4 years since one has been brought to the floor. It is important that we do so because the Nation has never, ever faced a more systemic debt threat to our country. Erskine Bowles and…

I ask for the yeas and nays on the motion to recommit. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The question is on agreeing to the motion. The clerk will call the roll. The assistant…

we talked about a number of challenges our Nation faces and the debt course we are on. The Director of the Congressional Budget Office, Mr. Elmendorf, testified just a few weeks ago before our Budget Committee and declared that we remain…

Well, your staff indicated that you could not double- count that money, and if you eliminated the $1.2 trillion in sequester limit and allowed $1.2 trillion more to be spent, you would not save $1.85 trillion but approximately $700 billion…

my colleague, Senator Murray, has questioned the $1.5 trillion in tax increases that we have contended in this legislation. I think it is there because there are two separate reserve funds that would allow taxes to be increased by $500…

I would just say that the Associated Press disagrees. It is plainly inaccurate. Plainly, I asked that question, over current law, did they count the sequester increase in spending? And the staff admitted in our Budget Committee mark up…

will the Senator yield for a question? I will not insist on an answer but I wish to raise something.

I would like to start with a motion, yes, and I am prepared to do that, and I thank the chairman. I offer a motion to recommit this budget that is on the floor today to the committee with instructions that it be altered to produce a…