House Proceeding 03-19-09 on Mar 19th, 2009 :: 0:51:10 to 0:52:30
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Cliff Stearns: stabilize our financial institutions. we are investing in education and health care. vote positive. vote for this bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentle mr. camp: i yield one minute to the distinguished gentleman from florida. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized for one minute. mr. s consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. stearns: my colleagues, here's some facts. last month the senate

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Speech By: Cliff Stearns

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Cliff Stearns: unanimously approved an amendment that would stop these bonuses. it was an amendment by olympia snow of maine and of course ron wyden from oregon. they had that in the bill. they went to the conference. and the conference stripped out that amendment, bipartisan amendment by senator chris dodd, a democrat from connecticut. all of you know that.

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Cliff Stearns: now, mr. rangele is here on the floor saying he knew nothing about this conference report. yet the amendment by senator snow and wyden was stripped out by senator dodd. i find it very difficult, mr. rangel, you knew nothing about this amendment that was stripped out explicitly exempting bonuses agreed to prior to the passage of the stimulus bill. how in the world can you say you knew nothing about it?

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Cliff Stearns: i've got the exact language from senator dodd talking about his amendment which stripped out senator snow and senator wyden. now, the fact is republicans have a plan to include 100% of these bonuses i ask mr.angel why didn't you