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Mike Enzi is a former U.S. Senator from Wyoming, serving from 1997 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, Enzi was known for his work on various committees, including the Senate Budget Committee and the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. Throughout his tenure, he focused on fiscal responsibility, education reform, and healthcare issues. Enzi was recognized for his collaborative approach, often working across party lines to achieve legislative goals.
I am here to propound a unanimous consent request. I want to make sure when we have the cloture vote tonight, that after cloture we are assured we can still have a vote on the Durbin-Lincoln bill as well as S. 1955. I ask unanimous consent…
I am with the Senator. Yes, it would be nice if we could wrap up something for small business. I think there is a plan there. I think there is a way to get there. I don't think it is going to happen without the cooperation of both sides in…
There were a lot negotiations to try to stick to small business and have some kind of a mechanism where the votes from both sides could be done. But there was not any agreement on that, so we are stuck in this kind of a situation where…
If there was no problem with it, why did we have to wait 3 days to get the vote?
I am talking about time limits and that sort of thing. Those requests were made between leaders to come up with some tight time agreements. It is beyond my pay grade.
If we get cloture, we could have a lot of debate on the small business stuff, not all of other ones. If we could get in a situation where we started doing these things a little quicker, with more time agreements, some of the more difficult…
The Senator certainly is not the only one. I would love to have a lot of time. We have had a lot of bills that came out of committee already that could be brought up. We have some more that are going to come out next Tuesday. A lot of…
Even during the course of today and any other debate we have on this bill, we have said if there is a relevant amendment, we would consider taking that up and voting on it. One exception we have on that is the difficulty with…
Probably about as long as it took Senator Durbin to cover the fallacies and to boost his bill. I ask that I be the next to speaker after the Senator.
I would like a chance to answer the 45 minutes of accusations that were made about my bill and also bring up a few things about the Durbin-Lincoln bill that I have not had a chance to talk about yet, but could I inquire how long the…
I almost hate to break the continuity of the debate when we are talking about some very specific things.
We had some latitude here to allow 20 minutes on this and we were 5 minutes late from that one.
Tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock, we will have a cloture vote on the motion to proceed to S. 1955, the small business health plans bill. I do expect we will be able to proceed to this bill, and I hope we can expedite the 30 hours of debate…
This is under the jurisdiction of the Education Committee. We have taken a look at it. FEMA just has a different definition that needs to be changed from what other schools have. It clears up some language. It is not any problem.
Oh, it was a nice chance to visit with everybody and those of us who are Senators, were able to tell which of our staff worked late.
I see this bill as the first step of many in improving the health care in the United States. I look forward to working with my friends on the Finance Committee as well as working with Senators Snowe and Stabenow to look at creative…
The calculation of lump sum distributions has been hotly debated. Some have been worried that the bill would shortchange participants in their lump-sum distributions. That is not the case. In fact, this bill has been very careful to avoid…
Then I would ask the remainder of the time until 2:30 go to this side of the aisle.
I hate to debate a second-degree amendment that has not yet been sent to the desk.
At the appropriate point in time I will be raising the point of germaneness. This amendment shows the Gordian knot we are trying to cut through so we can do the right things for the children of Katrina. What we have is constitutional. We…
I assure the Senator that we can work together, and it will be put into the prioritization. It is already in the prioritization of the committee. We are handling the emergencies first. I apologize for the 2-week delay we had while we are…
I said before that I think it is very important for us to come up with a piece of legislation that does that on and off military bases, so there is a reporting of adverse events so that FDA can take action when it is affecting people, and…
Now is not the time to play the blame game. We need to focus on immediate assistance and the rebuilding of the region.
I look forward to hearing from SBA Administrator Barreto and Associate Administrator Mitchell about what the SBA has accomplished in response to Katrina.
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