Senate Proceeding on Sep 26th, 2008 :: 1:39:04 to 1:59:04
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Speech By: Debbie Stabenow

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Debbie Stabenow: west virginia is notified we are in a quorum call mr. byrd: i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be rescinded. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. the senator may proceed.

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Chuck Grassley: mr. byrd: i thank the chair. mr. president, am i recognized? the presiding officer: the senator from west virginia is recognized. mr. byrd: i thank the chair. mr. president, i support the reid-byrd

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Speech By: Chuck Grassley

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Chuck Grassley: economic stimulus package. over the past week, congressional leaders have been working with administration officials to craft a bail out package for wall street but if we're going to bail out wall

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Chuck Grassley: street, we also need to help main street. the president's failed fiscal policies have resulted in higher unemployment, hardship in coping with rising food costs, higher energy costs and increased

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Chuck Grassley: dependence on foreign oil. if the president thinks -- if the president thinks that a $700 billion bailout for wall street is good for america the president, your president, my president, our president, should

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Chuck Grassley: certainly support a $56 billion investment program to create jobs on main street. the unemployment rate now stands at 6.1%, the highest rate since september 2003. the unemployment rate is up 1.4% since

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Chuck Grassley: last august. the u.s. economy has lost jobs every month this year. a total of 605,000 jobs. the stimulus package extends unemployment benefits by seven weeks in all states and another 13 weeks in high-unemployment

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Chuck Grassley: states. food prices have increased by 7.5% this year after increasing 4.9% in 2007. in order to help low-income individuals cope with rising food prices, the stimulus package temporarily increases food

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Chuck Grassley: stamp benefits by 10% and includes $450 million for the women, infants and children -- w.i.c -- program which would allow 625,000 women and children to receive benefits. $50 million is included for food

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Chuck Grassley: banks, $30 million for the commodity supplemental food program, and $60 million for senior meals programs, providing 18.5 million more -- 18 million more meals to seniors. there are consequences

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Chuck Grassley: -- you hear me? there are consequences for failing to invest in america. what are they? bridges fall into rivers, yes. ads and subways are congested to the breaking point. fema cannot respond to a major

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Chuck Grassley: disaster. fuel prices -- hear me? fuel prices go through the roof. this stimulus package includes $10.8 billion -- that's $10.80 for every minute -- for every minute since jesus christ was born. get

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Chuck Grassley: that? that's a lot of money. this stimulus package includes $10.8 billion for building and repairing highways, bridges, mass transit, airports, and amtrak creating 384,000 jobs, $50 million for the

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Chuck Grassley: economic development administration to help communities impacted by a massive job -- by massive job losses due to corporate restructuring, $5 million for the "cops" program to hire 6,500 police officers,

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James Inhofe: $6 million for clean water systems that would create 24,000 jobs, and $2 billion for school construction that would create 32,300 jobs. 29 states are facing a $52 billion shortfall in revenues in

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Speech By: James Inhofe

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James Inhofe: their f.y. 2009 budget, resulting in cuts in health care , education, and other programs. the stimulus package includes $19.6 billion to reduce the state's share of medicaid costs by increasing the

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James Inhofe: federal share by 4%. energy prices have increased by 22.4% in 2008. this stimulus bill includes major -- and i say "major" -- major investments in promoting energy independence and a clean environment,

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James Inhofe: including funds for advanced battery research, for local governments to improve energy efficiency, for environment cleanup, and weatherizing homes. over 22% of the world's energy supply is under the arctic

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James Inhofe: ice cap. you get that? under the arctic ice cap. the russian president has stated that russia should unilaterally claim part of the arctic, stepping up the race for the disputed energy-rich region. we're

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James Inhofe: not going to go along with that. no. no! russia has a fleet of -- no. hell no!o! russia has a fleet of nuclear-power icebreakers in an effort -- get this -- in an effort to control energy exploration

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James Inhofe: and maritime trade in the region. thanks, i say -- i say, thanks to the bush administration, the united states has only one functioning heavy polar icebreaker, and there's only six years left of useful

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James Inhofe: life. shame. $920 million is included for the coast guard to provide what the navy and the air force call an essential instrument of u.s. policy in the region. funding is included to promote safety

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James Inhofe: and energy efficiency in public house -- housing, implement provisions of the recent housing law, give housing assistance to tenants displaced by foreclosure, and fund f.b.i. investigations of fraud in the mortgage

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James Inhofe: market. to promote education and job training, $2 billion -- that's a lot of money, $2 billion -- $2 billion is included for school repairs. $36 million for homeless education, and $400 million for

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James Inhofe: the secure rural schools program. job training funds would provide 160,000 dislocated workers and the youth with training and job-search assistance. $1.2 billion is included for the national institutes

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Patty Murray: of health. america's small businesses, the lifeblood of our economy, face an ever-tightening credit market in the wake of struggling financial markets. the stimulus provides $205 million to support

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Speech By: Patty Murray

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Patty Murray: $16 billion -- that's billion dollars, spelled with a "b" -- $16 billion in reduced-fee loans to small businesses delivering needed relief to small businesses on main street -- main street. main street.

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Patty Murray: now, mr. president, i urge senators, all senators -- all senators -- to vote for this bill, to send a message to the white house -- the white house. hear me now -- the white house -- that main street

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Patty Murray: matters. let me say that again. i urge senators -- 100 of them -- to vote for this bill, to send a message to the white house that main street matters. mr. reid: mr. president, has my friend completed

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Patty Murray: his statement? mr. byrd: yes. i thank the chair. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader is recognized. mr. reid: join in the statement of the chairman of the appropriations committee,

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Patty Murray: the distinguished former majority leader, minority leader, assistant leader, secretary. no one h's a more astounding and a-- no one has a more astounding and accomplished record in the united states senate

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Patty Murray: than senator robert byrd of west virginia. this is the last day we'll be able to vote on a targeted economic stimulus package. the dollars we invest in this legislation will come right back to our

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Patty Murray: economy by creatin jobs, rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, and helping small business grow. mr. president, i ask consent that the full text of my statement be made part the record. the presiding

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Patty Murray: officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. reid: mr. president, i ask consent that morning business be closed -- just withhold that for one second. i ask unanimous consent that the judiciary committee

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Patty Murray: be discharged from further consideration of h.r. 5571 and we now proceed to its consideration. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 5571, an act to extend for five years the

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Patty Murray: program relating to waiver of the foreign country residence requirement with respect to international medical graduates and for other purposes. the presiding officer: without objection, the committee is discharged.

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Patty Murray: the senate will road to the measure. mr. reid: i ask consent that a conrad agreement, which is at the desk be agreed to, the bill as amended be read a third time, passed, the motion to reconsider

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Patty Murray: motion to reconsider, in be no intervening being a or debate, and any statemented be placed in the record as if read. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. allard: just wanted to make sure

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Patty Murray: we had a chance to speak for two and a half minutes. mr. reid: i'll take care of it. i ask the senate proceed to s. 3606. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. 3606, a bill to extend

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Patty Murray: the special immigrant nonminister religious program and so forth and for other purposes. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will froavmentd measure. mr. reid: i ask consent that

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Patty Murray: the bill be read a third time, patted, the motion to reconsider be laid on the table. thereby no in-- if there are statements, i ask that -- consent that they appear at the appropriate place in

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Patty Murray: the record, as if given. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. reid: i ask nowhat we proceed to s. 3605, introduced earlier today by senator biden. the presiding officer: the clerk

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Patty Murray: withll report. the clerk: s. 3605, a bill to extend the pilot program for volunteer groups to obtain criminal history background checks. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate mr. trod to

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Patty Murray: the measure. mr. reid: i ask that the bill be read three times, passed, the motion to reconsider be laid on the table, there be no intervening action or debate, and any statements relating to

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Patty Murray: this mabt placed in the record at the appropriate place as if given. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader is recognized.

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Patty Murray: mr. reid: mr. president, i ask consent that morning business be closed, that the motion to proceed to s. 3297 be set aside -- i'm sorry -- and that it be in order for the majority leader to move

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Patty Murray: to road to a bill relating to the stimulus nsht that was introduced earlier today and is at the desk, that the motion to proceed be considered as have having been made, there be debate for senator

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Patty Murray: allard for three minutes there be an opportunity for senator demint to offer an unanimous consent request, and at the completion of that tiernlg the senate proceed t vote on the motion to proceed

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Patty Murray: on the motion -- and the mowing be subject to a 60-vote affirmative threshold and if the motion is not received an affirmed 60-vote threshold, we proceed to s. 3297 with no intervening action for

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Patty Murray: debate. the presiding officer: is there objection? mr. demint: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator south carolina. mr. demint: i understand the majority leader has added into this so-called

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Patty Murray: stimulus package an extension. ban on oil shale development and i would ask that -- i would ask consent that his request be modified to include an amendment which is at the desk, would authorize and

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expedite offshore and oil shale exploration. mr. reid: i say to my good friend, you should quite while you're ahead. i object. the presiding officer: objection is acknowledged. is there objection

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to the majority leader's request -- unanimous consent request? without objection, so ordered. mr. allard: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator -- under the previous order, morning business

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is closed. under the previous order, the motion to proceed to s. 3604 is considered made by the majority leader. the senator from colorado is recognized for three minutes. mr. allard: thank you,

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mr. president. i rise in opposition to the stimulus package. this stimulus package attempts to overturn an oil shale agreement that was reached on the continuing resolution. this is more of the same

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Patty Murray: shoddy process that we've seen from the majority party throughout this entire congress. if the purpose of this amendment is to stimulate the economy, why would we attempt to place one of the largest potential

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Patty Murray: deposits of oil in the world out of reach? this provision would maintain the status quo of sending $700 billion annually to the likes of hugh cho chavez. if we enacted this provision, not only

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Patty Murray: are we sending american dollars abroad, but we're sending american jobsfter them. it's eye ron that can something that's supposed to stimulate our economy would in fact hurt it. mr. president, this

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Patty Murray: congress has already passed a stimulus proposal as well as a supplemental disaster appropriations bill, and we are gating to vote on a $700 billion wall street bailout. we must realize that the united states

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Patty Murray: doesn't have a blank check to spend unlimited amounts of taxpayer money. it is premature to consider the stimulus package before we fully know what our other obligations are going to be. this do-nothing

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Patty Murray: and drill-nothing congress is out of touch with the people that put them in office. earlier this week we saw the largest single day -- single-day jump in oil prices in history. this moratorium