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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.
Mr. President, the newspaper articles I have submitted for the Record were written by the editorial boards of the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, while the other op ed, written by a guest columnist, appeared in…
Mr. President, I want to talk about the paycheck unfairness bill that is before us. A better title for this bill should be the ``jobs for trial lawyers act.'' I am confident that there is no Member of this Senate who would tolerate paying…
Mr. President, the United States has one of the best food safety systems in the world. However, even the best of systems have room for improvement. That is why my colleagues and I worked together over the past year to produce a bill that…
Mr. President, when we talk about 121 pages, we are talking about what the small businessman has to access. He has to go on the Internet and print out the pages. There are 121 pages. Yes, if he could get it in the format of the Federal…
Right. Mr. McCAIN. The CPAs come to me in Arizona and say: I can't advise my clients. I don't know what the tax structure will be. So here we are with a new 121 pages of regulation which obviously will affect 50, 60, 80 percent--let's say…
And the Senator from Arizona has not even mentioned the 1099 problem that is supposed to help pay for part of this bill. Mr. McCAIN. Yes, which our colleagues just voted down. They voted down a resolution by the Senator from Nebraska that…
Yes, it will be dramatic. We have not begun to touch all of the regulations that have to be written on this yet. We looked at the Medicare bill and how many pages of regulations came out of that, and it was 100 per page, which would be…
It is a correct assessment in most of the parts. They will have to give up the insurance they have now, even if they like it, which the President did mention 47 times in public speeches. And there are some requirements on how much of a…
That is correct. And so were the other parts that were done in order to buy the bill in a bipartisan way. Mr. McCAIN. So what you are saying is that unless a health care policy provided by an employer is absolutely unchanged totally for an…
According to the administration, in small businesses, 80 percent of the people--unless this is passed--will lose the insurance they have and like, and in all businesses 69 percent will. Those are not my numbers; those are the…
In one of the instances, that is correct. Mr. McCAIN. So in a 2,733-page bill, if we have 121 pages of regulation for every 2 pages, that is going to be pretty interesting, isn't it? And the fun has just begun. The fun has just begun. If…
Mr. President, I yield up to 10 minutes to the Senator from Arizona, Mr. McCain. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Arizona is recognized. Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to engage in a colloquy with the Senator…
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