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Congressional Record United States Th of America PROCEEDINGS and DEBATES of the 112 CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION E PL UR UM IB N U U S Congressional Record United States th of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 112 CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION Vol. 158 WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2012 No. 166 Senate The Senate met at 1 p.m. and was Mr. WHITEHOUSE thereupon as- comprehensive agreement can pass ei- called to order by the Honorable SHEL- sumed the chair as Acting President ther Chamber without both Democratic DON WHITEHOUSE, a Senator from the pro tempore. and Republican votes, which means State of Rhode Island. f any solution will have to ask the most fortunate among us to pay a little PRAYER SCHEDULE more to reduce the deficit and ensure The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- partisanship doesn’t take the Nation to fered the following prayer: pore. The Senator from North Carolina. the brink of default. Let us pray. Mrs. HAGAN. Mr. President, fol- Nothing that has passed the House of Eternal God, You only are immortal, lowing leader remarks, the Senate will Representatives fits that test—noth- so today we offer our thanksgiving. begin consideration of the conference ing. A few days ago President Obama Thank You for life and for opportuni- report to accompany H.R. 4310, the Na- and Speaker BOEHNER appeared poised ties to make our Nation stronger. tional Defense Authorization Act. The to strike a grand bargain, but we have Thank You for the peace You give, filing deadline for second-degree heard that before. Instead of making even in the midst of storms. Use our amendments to the emergency supple- hard choices of compromise, as Presi- Senators today, filling them with mental bill is 1:30 p.m. today. dent Obama has been willing to do, the strength and purpose. May they labor At approximately 2 p.m., there will Speaker retreated to his corner and re- to encourage the right and correct the be a rollcall vote on adoption of the na- sorted to political stunts, but that wrong. When they meet with reversal tional defense conference report. We stunt fell flat. and failure, may they not become will work on an agreement for amend- It is time for the Speaker and all Re- weary but continue to work to fulfill ments in order to complete action on publicans to return to the negotiating Your will. the supplemental as well as an agree- table. We have never left. It is time for We pray in Your sacred Name. Amen. ment on FISA. Republicans to work with us to find the middle ground. That is the only f f hope of averting the devastating im- PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY pacts of the fiscal cliff. The fiscal cliff LEADER The Honorable SHELDON WHITEHOUSE needs to be avoided. led the Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- In the meantime, the Speaker should I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the pore. The majority leader is recog- bring the middle-class tax cut passed United States of America and to the Repub- nized. by the Senate 5 months ago to the floor lic for which it stands, one nation under God, f of the House for a vote. We know it will indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. pass. All he has to do is let Democrats THE FISCAL CLIFF f vote with some Republicans and it will Mr. REID. Mr. President, last night pass. The clock is ticking until the Na- APPOINTMENT OF ACTING the House of Representatives proved tion goes over the fiscal cliff and taxes PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE what we have known for quite a while: go up for every family in America. But The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Speaker BOEHNER’s plan to raise taxes there is still time for the Speaker to clerk will please read a communication on 25 million middle-class taxpayers hit the brakes and avoid that cliff. We to the Senate from the President pro while handing out $50,000 bonuses to don’t need the ‘‘Thelma and Louise’’ tempore (Mr. LEAHY). millionaires and billionaires was dead projection over that cliff. The assistant legislative clerk read on arrival. We said that yesterday. We The Senate-passed bill would protect the following letter: knew the so-called Plan B was no plan 98 percent of families and 97 percent of U.S. SENATE, at all. It couldn’t pass the Senate. It small businesses from crippling tax PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, turns out it couldn’t pass the House ei- hikes while President Obama and the Washington, DC, December 21, 2012. ther. It is too bad Speaker BOEHNER Speaker work toward a compromise To the Senate: wasted 1 week on this futile political agreement. That agreement should be Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, stunt, and that is all we can call it. comprehensive. If Republicans truly of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby But at least now House Republicans want to ensure American families’ appoint the Honorable SHELDON WHITEHOUSE, a Senator from the State of Rhode Island, to have gotten the message loudly and taxes don’t go up on January 1, they perform the duties of the Chair. clearly that any comprehensive solu- should simply pass the Senate bill. The PATRICK J. LEAHY, tion to the looming fiscal cliff will only reason Speaker BOEHNER hasn’t President pro tempore. need to be a bipartisan solution. No brought our bill to the floor sooner is ∑ This ‘‘bullet’’ symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. S8323 . VerDate Mar 15 2010 05:31 Dec 22, 2012 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A21DE6.000 S21DEPT1 smartinez on DSK6TPTVN1PROD with S8324 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE December 21, 2012 he knows it will pass. He worked for a can do it. This isn’t JOHN BOEHNER’s other $50,000 for each of them was de- day or two seeing if he could bring that problem to solve. He has done his part. feated here. It was defeated in the Sen- up so it wouldn’t pass. That didn’t He has bent over backward. ate. work either. Mr. President: How about rallying So my friend—and he is my friend— Americans are not fooled by the your party around a solution. How the Republican leader is struggling to Speaker’s phony procedural excuses for about getting Democrats to support find a way to blame Democrats, and it failing to bring this solution to a vote. something. is a struggle, trying to blame us for the They are tired of excuses. They expect I have said it many times before: We failure of the House to pass the Speak- action. simply cannot solve the problems we er’s bill. The House is led by the Re- Let me be very plain. There is noth- face unless and until the President of publicans. Their narrowed margin will ing preventing the Speaker from tak- the United States either finds the will be better for the country after the first ing up our bill and giving middle-class or develops the ability—the ability—to of the year, but right now he controls families certainty. I say to my friend, lead. This is a moment that calls for the House by a wide margin. the Speaker: This isn’t a game. It isn’t Presidential leadership. That is the I have served in the House. The about scoring political points or put- way out of this. It is that simple. Speaker is all powerful in the House. ting wins on the board. There will be Does anybody wonder why we keep To blame us for the travesty that took very serious consequences for millions going from crisis to crisis around here? place over there is pretty incredible. As of families if Congress fails to com- Does anybody notice a pattern? This I tried to say in my remarks, couldn’t promise, and there will be very serious doesn’t have to be a crisis. This was an we at least protect the middle class? consequences for our country if Con- opportunity, but once again the Presi- My friend complains the President gress fails to compromise. dent ignored it. He went out and held hasn’t done enough. He put forward a It is time for the Speaker to return rallies and gave partisan speeches even proposal that has received criticism to the negotiating table ready to com- after he had already been reelected. from Democrats because he was too promise, and it is time for the House— As I said yesterday, I think it is obvi- generous with Speaker BOEHNER. But especially House Republicans—to re- ous at this point the President wants the President believes, as he said sev- member what is at stake. to go off the cliff. But I know most of eral times, both sides might have to I repeat, the $250,000 program would the American people don’t want that. make hard choices. The President released a balanced pass overwhelmingly in the House. It is Today, I am going to make an offer. $2.4 trillion program. That is pretty up to the Speaker to let that vote With 10 days to go, we have an obliga- good. It would alleviate the fiscal cliff, occur. tion to act on something—something it would allow the SGR to continue so The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- that can pass the House and the Sen- doctors get paid and patients have a pore.
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