Senate Proceeding on Apr 29th, 2009 :: 3:35:05 to 3:39:34
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Mike Johanns: appropriations bill was about $410 billion. wh it means that over these first 100 spent on an average of $12 billion a day.

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Speech By: Jim Bunning

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Jim Bunning: that's a staggering rate of spending we cannot continue to manage our like this. the budget proposed by the obama administration several weeks ago is no more responsible than these other bills. it spends too much. it

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Jim Bunning: and i have mentioned these numbers before, but they are worth repeating. the president's proposal will double the public held national debt to more annual spending would leap from

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Jim Bunning: $24 ,000 per household -- from $24,000 per household to $32,000. this plan would raise t $1.4 trillion over ten years. those are not my numbers. i didn't make them up. the people hired by the democrats,he congressional

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Jim Bunning: budget office, picked by senator reid two members of the finance -- one member of the finance committee and one member of the ways and means committee, senator baucus and congressman rangel. those are the people who picked

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Jim Bunning: c.b.o.'s director, and those are his numbers. this plan would also -- the increase in debt is also staggering. the president's proposal would double the debt held by the public in five years and nearly triple it in over ten. in fact, the proposal would

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Jim Bunning: create more debt previous served from george washington to include george w. bush. i know that today we're not voting on the obama proposal. however, i still think it is completely reasonable to it.

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Jim Bunning: this proposal gives us a great insight into how president obama views government and we see that he wants to greatly expand it. he also no longer is a member of the legislative branch. however, he is the leader of the

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Jim Bunning: party that controls t legislative branch. so we know he' have influence on how legislation is written here. on aspects of the document before us is the inclusion reconciliation instructions for

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Jim Bunning: health care and education legislation. i don't want to talk about arcane senate procedure today. however, this is an abuse of the process. reconciliation is used to return money to the taxpayers and the it m

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Jim Bunning: accomplishes this much easier to pass. these instructions require total savings of $2 billion. this is absurd because we know that health education legislation will cost much more than in fact, as we know from the

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Jim Bunning: numbers i mentioned above, the adnistration has billion every four hours or so. this will not be any kind of significant deficit reduction. another worrying feature of this budget is the assault on small businesses.

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Jim Bunning: president obama admits that 70% of job growth will come from small businesses. so why out of