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Congressional Record United States Th of America PROCEEDINGS and DEBATES of the 110 CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION E PL UR UM IB N U U S Congressional Record United States th of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 110 CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION Vol. 154 WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2008 No. 19 Senate The Senate met at 9:30 a.m. and was U.S. SENATE, storms in the northern part of the called to order by the Honorable BEN- PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, State, it is hard for me to understand JAMIN L. CARDIN, a Senator from the Washington, DC, February 6, 2008. the power of nature we see so often— To the Senate: and that we see more often than we State of Maryland. Under the provisions of rule I, section 3, of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby used to with these tornadoes occurring PRAYER appoint the Honorable BENJAMIN L. CARDIN, throughout this country. The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- a Senator from the State of Maryland, to Last night and this morning, violent fered the following prayer: perform the duties of the Chair. storms raged through five States, in- Let us pray. ROBERT C. BYRD, cluding Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, President pro tempore. Almighty God, Heavenly Father, Mississippi, and Tennessee. They were violent. It appears there will be more open our hearts to Your movement in Mr. CARDIN thereupon assumed the than 50 people declared dead, scores of our midst. As we trust Your providence chair as Acting President pro tempore. people have been injured, and there was and cling to Your promises, give us f a tremendous loss of personal property. wisdom and spiritual vision to see You RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY Our thoughts, of course, this morning at work. LEADER go out to the victims. We, in all our Today, I claim for our lawmakers The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- States, have had occurrences relating Your promise through Jeremiah: Call pore. The majority leader is recog- to natural disasters. But I think we to Me, and I will answer you, and show nized. should all pause and think about the you great and mighty things which you f lives of these people who have been do not know. snuffed away by this violent set of Lord, keep our Senators from being SCHEDULE storms throughout the country and the intimidated by the challenges they Mr. REID. Mr. President, it is a big loss to their loved ones, their neigh- face. Clothe them with the armor of in- day today. Our three Presidentials are bors, and their families. tegrity, shield them with Your truth, going to be here, and we have a 5:45 We have heard reports this morning and guide them with Your power. Help vote. We are looking forward to that. of how our first responders reacted. them to please You by living holy and We don’t see them as much as we used The police, firefighters, and National peaceful lives. Give them a hunger for to. Guard medics worked through the Your words and a desire to apply Your Following my remarks today and night, around the clock, to save lives. knowledge in their daily walk. those of the Republican leader, there The latest event we had in Nevada was We pray in Your precious Name. will be an hour of morning business, so minor compared to this. We had a Amen. equally divided, with Senators per- levy break and flood waters inundated mitted to speak therein for up to 10 hundreds of homes. We were very con- f minutes each. The majority will con- cerned about that. But the one thing trol the first half and the Republicans we did recognize is how the police, fire- PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE will control the second half. fighters, and other first responders re- The Honorable BENJAMIN L. CARDIN Following morning business, the Sen- acted so quickly. What took place last led the Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: ate will resume consideration of the night is so much more significant than I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, what we had in Nevada. It is difficult United States of America, and to the Repub- as under the previous order. Rollcall to comprehend the severity of what lic for which it stands, one nation under God, votes may occur throughout the day in happened last night. The work of the indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. relation to FISA amendments. As I first responders, and others, will con- mentioned, there will be a 5:45 p.m. clo- tinue around the clock for some time. f ture vote on the Finance Committee Rebuilding will begin and I am con- amendment to the economic stimulus. fident that, as a congressional body, we APPOINTMENT OF ACTING Second-degree amendments to the fi- will be called upon to help in some PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE nance amendment are due by 4 p.m. form or fashion. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The today. THE ECONOMY clerk will please read a communication f Mr. President, the top priority of this to the Senate from the President pro Congress right now is to bring relief to tempore (Mr. BYRD). VIOLENT STORMS Americans who are struggling through The assistant legislative clerk read Mr. REID. Mr. President, being from a troubled economy. One need only lis- the following letter: the desert and seeing, on occasion, ten to the morning news, as I did, to ∑ This ‘‘bullet’’ symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. S679 . VerDate Aug 31 2005 00:25 Feb 07, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A06FE6.000 S06FEPT1 smartinez on PRODPC61 with SENATE S680 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE February 6, 2008 see that the economy is stumbling and atives in Washington trying to help ing to determine the extent of the dam- staggering. The stock market fell by 3 them. age. percent yesterday. The Japanese mar- One of the pet projects we have is ex- I ask my colleagues to join me in kets, after that—we got reports today tending unemployment benefits to peo- praying for the families of the victims on that—fell by almost 5 percent. The ple who have been out of work for a and to all who have been touched by European markets are down. long time. I very much appreciate the these terrible storms. State and local Today, our work continues to try to homebuilders being advocates for our officials are working as hard as they focus attention on this troubled econ- Senate stimulus package. can to survey the destruction and get omy, to try to help in some way. As I Those who are unemployed don’t help to anybody who needs it. have indicated, at 5:45, we will hold a have anyone here. They don’t have lob- cloture vote on the plan to proceed to byists calling for Republican Senators f the Senate Finance Committee’s eco- to support it. This is the package we STIMULUS PACKAGE nomic stimulus plan. I spread on the got from the Senate Finance Com- record of this body last night editorials mittee. This is an important part of Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, it from around the country supporting the stimulus package—to give rebates has been 19 days since the President the Senate stimulus plan. It is the one to people who are out of work and have called for a stimulus plan, and econo- that will get money into the pockets of been for an extended period of time. mists called for swift action on it. people who need it and will spend it They will spend it. Republicans and Democrats in the very quickly. This is in no way to deni- Helping Americans struggling to pay House got the message, and they made grate the House plan. It was only a their heating bills through the some hard choices, showed restraint, start. LIHEAP is a pet project. I have sup- and forged a bipartisan compromise lit- Why do we need a stimulus plan? ported this project for years. We sup- erally within days. Look at the stock market, look at the port this project. You give these people Unfortunately, Senate Democrats rising gasoline prices, heating for our the money and they will spend it—and didn’t follow suit. They turned the idea homes, and the housing crisis, the fore- they will spend it now. into political gamesmanship, with the closure rate, which is more than 600 The growing housing crisis is cer- head of their campaign committee call- percent in Reno, NV. It is 275, on aver- tainly a pet project of mine, as indi- ing for ‘‘tough votes.’’ age, in Florida. It is more than 300 per- cated by the statistics we have in The American people are tired of po- cent in California, with 37 million peo- Reno, NV, and other places in Nevada. litical ‘‘gotcha.’’ We don’t have time ple. The Labor Department’s recent We should join to build on the House for it. The economy needs a boost right jobs report showed the economy lost bill. The bill that comes from the now. So I think we need to step back 17,000 jobs in January. That is a few of House has to go to conference anyway and ask ourselves what this exercise the problems we should be concerned because there is language in the House was all about in the first place. about. bill dealing with people who are un- My preference is to modify the House Whether American families are in- documented who would have benefits.
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