S6044 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE July 21, 2010 that is our national debt. We have to But it is not enough for them, once our friends on the other side would call worry about that more than the care of losing the debate, to simply pick them- this off and say: All right, enough. We American families who are out of work, selves up, dust themselves off and, like wish we had won. We want a world in through no fault of their own, because good sports, go on to the next disagree- which the deficit only applies to unem- of the wild spree that Wall Street took ment. We have other things we will dis- ployment benefits for working families under the Bush administration. agree about. Nope. That is asking too and we get to dig big holes in the debt I would think more of that argument much of our friends, unfortunately, to and the deficit when it is our tax cuts if it were at least consistent, but it is have that kind of good sportsmanship— for the wealthy, but we lost on that not consistent. It is an argument that to stand up, get back on the field and one. Let us move on. We will take the they apply when regular working fami- go back to the battle. We have to burn hand up off the field, we will dust our- lies are out of work through no fault of 30 hours of Senate floor time to no pur- selves off and move on to the next one. their own because of the Wall Street pose. We can’t do other work during If for no other reason than good sports- meltdown from the Bush policies. That this period. We can’t do amendments manship, I would hope they would do is when they get all excited about how during this period. that and call off this period of delay. important the deficit is. But when it We know how the vote is going to That would also allow us to get to comes to, say, oh, tax cuts for billion- come out. Literally, no possible pur- other business. We may disagree, but aires, tax cuts for corporate CEOs, pose is accomplished by requiring us to we might as well get to the business. well, then a different rule prevails. burn the 30 hours, except two things for We might as well have these arguments Then the debt isn’t so important. Then sure will happen. One thing for sure out. We might as well have our fight. the deficit isn’t so important. What is that happens is that all those families Let’s not just kill time here. So I hope more important are the folks with the out there—those 6,000 Rhode Island my colleagues will reconsider. Time 1 big salaries—the CEOs earning on aver- families, those 2 ⁄2 million families ticks away, awasting here. Everybody age these days 400 times what a regular across the country—will have to wait a has work to be done. The American little longer. They have been stretched average salaried worker gets paid—400 people await us, particularly on jobs to the very end of their budgets and times more every day than the average legislation. There is an enormous they are hanging on by their finger- worker. That is the kind of tax cut amount we could do to help them if we nails. But instead of saying: Fair and that is more important than the def- could simply get to it. icit. square, okay, we tried. We threw up We have a small business bill we are I saw this cartoon the other day, and every obstacle we could, but we lost 60– trying to tee up that would provide I wanted to share it on the Senate 40, so let’s go on to the next thing— enormous value to the economy, in- nope, they are going to make them floor. I thought it was a pretty good cluding in particular Rhode Island, hang on for another 30 hours. description of where we are on this. where small business is so important. Here are our friends on the other side. The other thing they accomplish through this is that they burn Senate Small business is the heartbeat of It says ‘‘Senate GOP’’ on this cranky floor time. The Good Lord only gives Rhode Island’s economy. To the extent fellow’s hat, and a little cat on the us so much time. You can’t get min- we can provide additional capital and front of the boat says ‘‘jobless bene- utes back when they are gone. You support for small business, we could fits,’’ if you can’t read it. The fellow is can’t get hours back when they are get to that. We could be working on saying to the little cat on the front of gone. You can’t get days back when that right this minute instead of being the boat: Too much weight. You get off they are gone. We have a lot of work to stuck in this long delay, in this empty the boat into the water. You are on do in this Chamber, and our friends on Chamber while 30 hours ticks uselessly your own. We don’t care. Actually, it the other side would like to have us do away because our friends simply can’t ends at get off the boat. I added the as much work as possible in as little dust themselves off after their defeat, rest. On the back of the boat we see tax time as possible, because, frankly, they stand up and go on to the next issue. cuts for the wealthy. want as little done as possible. So it They have to force this long 30-hour But the Republicans do not see that. actually suits their goal to burn floor stall. They do not worry about that. They time to no effect here on the Senate I thank the Presiding Officer again are not concerned about that. Since floor. for the time, I yield the floor, and I the estate tax went to zero, four es- So that is what we are doing. I am suggest the absence of a quorum. tates have been reported in the media here alone right now. Senator REED The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- of more than $1 billion—more than $1 was here alone a minute ago. I suspect pore. The clerk will call the roll. billion. Each estate has gone through that when I leave, we will go back into The legislative clerk proceeded to tax free, at a cost to the Treasury, at a quorum call and time will tick, tick, call the roll. Mr. KYL. Mr. President, I ask unani- a cost to the deficit and the debt of tick, tick past with nothing being ac- hundreds of millions of dollars, and not complished here. We could be working mous consent that the order for the a peep—not a peep—from the other side on jobs legislation. We sure need that. quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. from those who are concerned about We could be working on energy legisla- BURRIS). Without objection, it is so or- the deficit, when that is the issue. But tion. We sure need that. There are a dered. you get a poor family out of work, one host of things Americans want us to be lifeline left keeping them in their working on. But the Republican side of f home, one lifeline left keeping food on this Chamber has a strategy to prevent CONCLUSION OF MORNING the table, and giving that lifeline the anything from getting done. Their pol- BUSINESS chop is something they are all for. icy is saying no, no matter what the That is something they are all for. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Morning question is—that is their answer, no business is closed. Well, fortunately, what happened matter the proposal—as long it comes here in the Senate yesterday is they from the Obama administration. That f lost. They didn’t lose on a fair-and- is their purpose, and they achieve that AMERICAN JOBS AND CLOSING square up-and-down-majority-rules purpose when they burn this time. TAX LOOPHOLES ACT OF 2010 vote. They lost on a 60–40 filibuster So here we are on the Senate floor The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under vote. They made us win by 20 points. with time ticking away, second by sec- the previous order, the Senate will re- Not just majority rules, the way it is ond, minute by minute, accomplishing sume consideration of the House mes- in most places, but they forced us to nothing other than burning 30 hours sage on H.R. 4213, which the clerk will 60–40 and we still won. So the unem- that, frankly, belongs to the American report. ployment insurance benefits should public. These are 30 hours we should be The legislative clerk read as follows: begin to flow to those families who are accomplishing the public’s business, Motion to concur in the House amendment in such distress right now, and won- moving on to the next issues and going to the Senate amendment with an amend- dering how they are going to make it forward. ment to H.R. 4213, an Act to amend the In- through the next day, through the next I would hope that, if nothing else, ternal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain moment. out of the spirit of good sportsmanship, expiring provisions, and for other purposes.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 23:38 Jul 21, 2010 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G21JY6.007 S21JYPT1 smartinez on DSKB9S0YB1PROD with SENATE July 21, 2010 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S6045 Pending: is that they will not pass a bill unless Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, I ask Reid motion to concur in the amendment it adds to the debt. They will not pass unanimous consent to speak as in of the House to the amendment of the Senate a bill to extend unemployment benefits morning business. to the bill, with Reid amendment No. 4425 (to unless it adds to the debt. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the amendment of the House to the amend- The extension likely would have objection, it is so ordered. ment of the Senate to the bill), in the nature passed weeks ago if Democrats had WATER QUALITY of a substitute. simply agreed to pay for it now by cut- Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, the oil Reid amendment No. 4426 (to amendment No. 4425), to change the enactment date. ting other Federal spending. In this $3 disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has trillion budget that we have, obviously, dominated the headlines since April 20. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- there are plenty of places for us to find Because of that tragedy, we are more ator from Arizona is recognized. the offsets. Our national debt has been aware than ever of the important role UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE increased again and again during this great water bodies and the rivers that Mr. KYL. Mr. President, in the Rose recession. That creates long-term bur- feed them play in our economy, our en- Garden on Tuesday, President Obama dens for everyone—the employed, the vironment, and even our sense of who stood with three long-time job seekers unemployed, and generations to come. we are as a people. and reminded us that out-of-work While President Obama argues that Late last month, the Environment Americans want to find work, and no we have increased the debt in the past and Public Works Committee reported one here, of course, questions that. I to pay for other items, I will note that out a number of bills addressing Amer- hear every day from Arizonans who we were not in the middle of a debt cri- ica’s precarious water resources. The look for a job day after day, week after sis back then, for one thing. I suggest committee approved a bill to hold BP week. They are just getting by. we pass a bill that is paid for now and accountable for the devastation it has I realize that few things can be more recalibrate efforts to encourage private caused to the people and the ecosystem frustrating and demoralizing than sector job creation. of the gulf. struggling to find a job and that the ef- As unemployed Americans know, As all of America has seen in the fects of unemployment for families are while unemployment benefits provide a morning newspapers and nightly news deep and severe. lifeline, they are only a temporary fix. accounts, the current $75 million limit President Obama would have the They are not a substitute for new pri- on oilspill liability damages represents American people believe congressional vate sector jobs. I will venture a guess a very small fraction of the actual Republicans have been blocking an ex- that everybody who is unemployed costs of the damage done by BP. Sen- tension of unemployment benefits in today would much rather have a job to- ator MENENDEZ’s bill, S. 3305, which the order to make some political point. He morrow than another check from the committee adopted, will make sure accused us of this again on Tuesday government for unemployment bene- that BP is legally bound to honor its and claimed we are refusing to help fits. pledge to pay all legitimate claims. I out-of-work Americans. So what do we do to create jobs and am proud to be a cosponsor, and I look I wish to set the record straight. This get the economy moving again? Well, forward to the adoption of this legisla- is not a dispute about extending unem- you do not do it by borrowing more tion by the full Senate. As we do everything we can to make ployment benefits. There is broad bi- money. The President’s job-creation sure the BP Deepwater Horizon dis- partisan agreement that we should do initiatives have been a bust. Since his aster is not a knife through the heart that. Republicans have voted several enormous stimulus bill passed in Feb- of the Gulf of Mexico’s ecosystem, we times in the past to extend benefits. I ruary of 2009, the private sector has know that other great water bodies are have. lost over 2 million jobs. also suffering. We are responding to The dispute, rather, is over who While there has been some anemic those troubled waters as well. The should pay for those benefits. Should economic growth since the recession Puget Sound, Columbia River Basin, we finance this $34 billion obligation in started, employers are still clearly re- the short term with a loan from a for- Great Lakes, Long Island Sound, San luctant to hire. That probably has to Francisco Bay, and, yes, the Chesa- eign government and pass the tab on to do with the reality that businesses, our kids and grandkids or should we peake Bay, are each special and iconic, both small and large, look down the yet each is threatened by degraded pay for it now by cutting other Federal road. They see massive tax increases spending? That is the question. It is a water quality. beginning next year, on top of all the Marylanders know from our experi- matter of who is going to pay for the new regulations imposed by this ad- ence with the Chesapeake Bay, just as benefits we provide to people. ministration. the residents of the gulf are dem- I do not think we should be sending They hear about a proposed national onstrating for all Americans, that the that tab to our kids. I believe we energy tax and proposed new pro-union health of these water bodies is critical should pay it now. This is our genera- policies. So they are reluctant to take to sustaining regional economies, plant tion. This is our problem today. We a chance on the future because of all and animal species, our cultural herit- have an obligation to help take care of the uncertainty and the burdens we age, and our treasured way of life that our fellow citizens when they are in have already placed upon them. The has been passed on from generation to time of need. We should find a way to key to job creation, and thus helping generation. The National Academy of pay for that. Our kids and grandkids unemployed Americans, is having sta- Public Administration has rec- are going to have their own problems ble and sound policies in place for em- ommended ‘‘making large-scale eco- in their day. We do not need to com- ployers to make long-term decisions. system restoration a national pri- pound those problems by adding our More spending, taxing, regulating, ority.’’ obligations to those that they will need and debt are not the answers. I would Large ecosystem programs, from to deal with. hope we can find a way to extend un- Long Island Sound to the Great Lakes Republicans have offered an array of employment benefits without asking to Puget Sound, are addressing some of constructive solutions to the problem, our children to pay the tab for this the Nation’s most complex water re- proposals to pay for what we are spend- generation’s problems. source management challenges. For ing, including using unspent money I yield the floor and I suggest the ab- this reason, EPA’s strategic plan from the President’s failed stimulus sence of a quorum. prioritizes protecting these ecosystems package. Almost half that money re- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The as a complement to their core, national mains available. clerk will call the roll. water quality programs. We have tried five times to pass an The assistant legislative clerk pro- The Water and Wildlife Sub- extension of unemployment benefits ceeded to call the roll. committee that I chair has devoted that does not add to the debt. But our Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, I ask considerable time to the Chesapeake Democratic colleagues have repeatedly unanimous consent that the order for Bay and, more recently, to the other rejected our proposals. So the principal the quorum call be rescinded. water body bills. they are defending is not the need for The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without I thank Chairman BOXER for her unemployment insurance extension, it objection, it is so ordered. strong support on these bills, for her

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There has the Clean Water Act, be given max- tion of this water body, which borders not been one dramatic incident that imum authority and flexibility to meet two nations. has killed off our fisheries, oyster beds the restoration pollution limits S. 3119, Long Island Sound Restora- and crab populations, so we have not through ‘‘watershed implementation tion and Stewardship Act, sponsored by seen the same sustained attention to plans’’ that each State designs for New York Senator GILLIBRAND, will lives and traditions ruined as we are itself; 3. Require that the Federal Gov- help with the recovery of this body of witnessing in the gulf today. ernment be an active partner in the water which serves millions of resi- That does not mean it isn’t hap- restoration effort, by developing the dents of New York and Connecticut. pening, family by family, across my overall pollution reduction targets on a Each of the restoration efforts takes State and my region. I have seen it and State-by-State basis through the a somewhat different approach to deal I am committed to doing everything I Chesapeake Bay TMDL; implementing with the specific concerns of that re- can to make sure the bay and the econ- the terms of the Presidential Executive gion. omy and ways of life it sustains don’t Order; paying local stormwater fees; This is as it should be. Each of these die away. and providing clear and meaningful ac- great water bodies is unique, and each The Chesapeake Bay encompasses countability for the basin States; 4. deserves its own restoration strategy 64,000 square miles. Its watershed is Provide the States, municipalities, de- developed by its own set of stake- home to more than 17 million people, velopers, and especially agricultural holders. with tributaries in Delaware, Mary- producers with significant new tools I am proud of the work done by doz- land, New York, Pennsylvania, Vir- and financial resources to meet the res- ens of Senators from both parties who ginia, West Virginia and the District of toration demands within the 15-year have contributed their time and legis- Columbia. time frame contained in the legisla- lative expertise in drafting and sup- Presidents Ronald Reagan and tion. porting these Great Water Body bills. Barack Obama have called it a na- The bill authorizes a number of new These bills prove that we can work tional treasure. grants programs, including two to as- together on substantive legislation in a The Chesapeake is the economic, his- sist local governments manage pol- constructive, bipartisan fashion. They toric and cultural center of the region, luted stormwater and three to assist prove that we can say ‘‘yes’’ to biparti- providing commercial waterways, im- the agricultural community manage sanship, ‘‘yes’’ to meeting America’s portant fisheries, and countless rec- nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment pol- need for clean waters, ‘‘yes’’ to locally reational opportunities. lution. Grants programs for States are driven restoration strategies, and The first English settlers in the New expanded and a number of independent ‘‘yes’’ to a bright future for some of the World came here; Captain John reviews of the program’s implementa- most iconic places in America. Smith’s original voyages of discovery tion and progress are required over the Mr. President, I look forward to the in 1607 first mapped its borders. The next 15 years. opportunity to bring all of these fine capital cities of Maryland, Pennsyl- I am proud that the Environment and bills to the Senate floor for adoption. vania, Virginia, and the United States Public Works Committee reported out With that, I yield the floor and sug- sit upon its major tributaries. this bill on a voice vote, without a sin- gest the absence of a quorum. Since 1983, the Chesapeake Bay Pro- gle Senator expressing opposition. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The gram has undertaken a largely vol- In fact, each of the individual great clerk will call the roll. untary effort to restore America’s larg- water bodies bills that the committee The bill clerk proceeded to call the est estuary. This State-Federal part- considered was adopted in a similar roll. nership program has provided innova- nonpartisan fashion. Ms. STABENOW. Mr. President, I ask tive leadership and remarkable sci- S. 1311, Gulf of Mexico Restoration unanimous consent that the order for entific understanding of the restora- and Protection Act, was introduced by the quorum call be rescinded. tion effort. Senator WICKER and it addresses the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without In recent years, however, it became long-standing issues facing the gulf objection, it is so ordered. apparent that voluntary efforts to re- that predate the oil spill disaster that The Senator from Michigan is recog- store water quality to the Chesapeake has dominated headlines. nized. and its tidal segments would be unsuc- S. 3550, Columbia River Basin Res- Ms. STABENOW. Mr. President, I cessful. toration Act of 2010, is a bill jointly de- wish to take a few moments to talk The basin States agreed that the U.S. veloped by the junior Senator from Or- about what is currently happening in Environmental Protection Agency egon, Mr. MERKLEY, and the senior the Senate, in my judgement, rep- would be responsible for developing a Senator from Idaho, Mr. CRAPO. This resenting a State with now the second basin-wide pollution reduction pro- bipartisan legislation will address one highest unemployment rate in the gram. The Chesapeake Bay total max- of America’s great river systems. country—Michigan. We are glad not to imum daily load, TMDL, would address S. 3073, Great Lakes Ecosystem Pro- be No. 1, but we sure would like to be all segments of the Chesapeake Bay tection Act of 2010, has several bipar- No. 50. We have an awful lot of people and tidal tributaries that are identified tisan sponsors, including Senator right now who are waiting for us to on the currently applicable lists of im- LEVIN and Senator VOINOVICH, who complete action on extending unem- paired waters by nitrogen, phosphorus have worked for years to protect the ployment insurance benefits. and sediment of the Chesapeake Bay Great Lakes, which hold 20 percent of I continue to be appalled at the States under section 303(d) of the Clean the fresh water on the Earth. lengths to which the Republican mi- Water Act. S. 3539, San Francisco Bay Restora- nority will go to stop people who are It is against that backdrop that I in- tion Act, sponsored by California Sen- out of work from getting some help. We troduced S. 1816, the Chesapeake Clean ators Feinstein and Boxer, will help di- are in a situation where we finally, Water and Ecosystem Restoration Act. rect the restoration of that essential after eight different votes and weeks The purpose of S. 1816 is to amend the estuary. and weeks of trying, had enough votes Clean Water Act to improve and reau- H.R. 4715, Clean Estuaries Act of 2010. to overcome a filibuster. As we all thorize the Chesapeake Bay Program Senators Whitehouse and Vitter know, that takes 60 votes. I am very authorized in section 117 of the Act. worked together on a substitute grateful to our Republican colleagues The bill has four primary objectives: version of this House bill. It will reau- from Maine for joining with us to make 1. Establish a deadline of 2025, along thorize the program that supports the that happen. We had a vote yesterday with appropriate milestones, for all 28 estuaries around the country that that was a supermajority vote. We

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Not to mention the under the procedures of the Senate, the party labels aside and say: This is State of the Republican minority lead- technically, unless there is a bipartisan an American emergency, just like a er, Kentucky, with 32,200 people who agreement, we have to wait 30 hours tornado hitting Chicago or Springfield, have had their unemployment benefits before we can actually vote. It used to IL, or flooding hitting some part of cut off. be that once we secured the votes of a Michigan; that we will stand behind I would say to the Senator from supermajority, then everyone would the people of our country, the 8 million Michigan that I am contacted by these agree: OK, the votes are there, and unemployed people who are struggling families, and they describe to me what they would agree to yield back time so to get back on their feet? Isn’t it true life is like when they lose that $250-a- we would not have to wait; we could go that historically we have done this week check and they are out of work. on to something else. without this kind of political rancor First, they exhaust their savings, then That is not what is happening now. and argument? they start putting off paying bills, and While people in Michigan and around Finally, yesterday, when we got the then they pray to God they don’t get the country are waiting, trying to fig- breakthrough—we have our new Sen- sick because they have lost their ure out: OK, can I pay the rent tomor- ator from West Virginia, CARTE GOOD- health insurance. Then comes the day row, can I get gas for my car to look WIN, who came in to succeed the leg- of reckoning. One lady called and said: for another job tomorrow, can I put endary Robert C. Byrd. He cast the de- They are cutting off my gas to my food on the table tomorrow, what is ciding vote, with two Republican Sen- home, and the electricity is next. An- going to happen on Monday, what is ators, I might add, who richly deserve other said: I am 1 month away from going to happen on Tuesday—while credit for it. At that point, we could moving out of my little efficiency into people are waiting, we have nothing have moved forward to send these un- my car. That is where I am going to happening on the floor of the Senate. employment benefits, give these people have to live. We are just burning time, 30 hours of in Detroit and Chicago peace of mind, That is the reality of life, and that is time. In my judgment, it is just mean, and instead the other side of the aisle while these people are looking for because when we look at what has to is insisting that we burn 30 hours off work. Imagine those burdens—and any- happen yet—we will pass the bill. We the calendar and even consider amend- one facing them would be preoccupied know we are going to pass the bill. It ments on such issues as the immigra- by them—at the same time trying to has to go back to the House and then tion law in Arizona, the future of the dress up nicely, put on a happy face, to the President for signature. This, at estate tax—all these unrelated issues. and fill out the forms to find a job. least, is the difference between families Is it true that is where we are in this I ask the Senator from Michigan getting some help on Friday so they moment of time, where there are no what she is finding with these people can feed the kids for the weekend or votes taking place on the floor of the who have been cut off from basic unem- whether they are going to have to wait Senate? ployment benefits because of the Re- until Monday or Tuesday or Wednes- Ms. STABENOW. Mr. President, I say publican filibuster. day. For a lot of folks, for a lot of us— to our distinguished leader in the Sen- Ms. STABENOW. Well, you are ex- we have a salary, we have a job—that ate—and I thank him for his advo- actly right. I also hear, on top of that, may not seem like much. For over 2.5 cacy—he is exactly right. We have about people who have done what we million people in this country who waited—I am not sure now if it is 10 or have told them they should do—they have lost their insurance benefits—and 11 weeks—trying to extend unemploy- should go back to school and get re- these are insurance benefits. You pay ment benefits. We have had multiple training. So they go back, and the only in when you are working to get some votes. We finally get the votes through reason they can actually afford to go temporary help if you lose your job all kinds of different means. We finally back to school to go through one of the through no fault of your own. Mr. get the votes yesterday, and it is un- job training programs is that small President, 2.5 million people think heard of that we would be in this spot, check that has allowed them to have a waiting from Friday to Monday is a big after getting a supermajority of 60 peo- little income for their family while deal. They, in fact, think Thursday and ple and after having this go on as long they do what we have told them to do, Friday is a big deal. We have a situa- as it has. It is unheard of. Never before which is to get a different skill to go tion that, frankly, I cannot charac- with a Democratic or Republican Presi- into a different career and then hope terize any other way than saying it is dent have we ever seen this, but now there will be a job there. just plain mean. we are stuck again, and I don’t under- I have had so many e-mails from peo- Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, will the stand why. I cannot fathom the moti- ple not only about losing their homes Senator yield for a question? vation of why the folks on the other and what is happening to their families Ms. STABENOW. I will be happy to side of the aisle, the leadership on the but that they have had to drop out of yield. other side of the aisle, would say: Let’s school. Well, how does it make any Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, first, I wait another 30 hours, which for most sense, when we are trying to make sure thank the Senator from Michigan. Her people means it is on into next week, people are productive in the workforce State more than any State in the Na- and most people have already been and are able to find a job that people tion has been hit harder by this reces- without that little bit of $250 or $300 a are dropping out of school because of sion and high employment. I am sure, week. We are not talking about a lot of this as well? as I have found and the Presiding Offi- money. Mr. DURBIN. Let me ask this ques- cer has found back in Illinois, that Mr. DURBIN. That is right. tion of the Senator, through the Chair. many of these people who are out of Ms. STABENOW. But it is a dif- I have had heard an argument from work are desperate; that in the Sen- ference between having a roof over the other side of the aisle that says ator’s State of Michigan, it has been your family’s head, food on the table, these checks make people lazy; that rough for a long time. and not. So now we are pushing into they don’t go out and look for work. I wish to ask the Senator from the next week. With $250 a week, they take it easy. State of Michigan, for those who may Mr. DURBIN. If the Senator would These aren’t the people I am talking not follow where we are at this mo- yield for a question, through the Chair. to in Illinois. I would ask the Senator ment in the Senate, if she could help I have a chart given me by my staff from Michigan, who sees thousands of refresh my recollection. Is it not true that says in my home State of Illi- people who have been out of work for that we tried three or four times to get nois—and the State of the Presiding long periods of time, what she thinks the Republicans to go along in a bipar- Officer—137,600 people in Illinois have about this Republican argument that tisan way to extend unemployment had their unemployment benefits cut unemployment checks make people benefits to those who lost their jobs off because of the filibusters on the Re- lazy.

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These are people four part-time jobs or who are under- work, the people who have been part of who built America. They built the mid- employed. If people aren’t back to this great middle class in our country dle class. It is not their fault Wall work, aren’t able to purchase as con- and who now find that slipping through Street had the crisis. sumers, aren’t able to contribute, we their fingers because of a global econ- We had the good fortune to be with will never get out of deficit, which is omy, where we have not understood the the President signing a bill that will why we start with jobs in the begin- rules should be fair, where we have had change that, but it is not their fault ning. policies put into place that affect only what happened. It is not their fault But to add insult to injury, we hear the privileged few, with the theory there was recklessness on Wall Street that giving another round of tax cuts that it will trickle down to everybody and then the financial system collapsed to the only part of the American public else. so small businesses can’t get loans and that has dramatically increased its in- You know what. I wish it had. I wish manufacturers can’t get loans. come—those who are at the very top; the policies of the former President It is not their fault we went through the top 1 and 2 percent—doesn’t matter and my friends on the other side had a decade of policies where the previous if it adds to the debt. Adding to the worked. I don’t want people to be out administration was not enforcing trade debt for tax cuts for wealthy people of work. If trickle-down economics laws so our jobs went overseas. It is not doesn’t count, but changing the rules, would work, I would celebrate it. But their fault they find themselves in this such as we have never done before, and my folks are still waiting for the trick- economy. So they are saying to me: I focusing on helping out-of-work people le down. They are still waiting. In- want to work. Hey, I want a job. I don’t does count. That counts. We can’t do stead, what is happening to them is want to extend my unemployment ben- that, if it is somebody who is out of they have lost their jobs or they are efits. Give me a job. work. But we don’t worry at all about finding themselves with fewer hours or That is what we are focusing on too. deficits when it is helping the privi- they are finding themselves in a situa- I say to the distinguished Senator from leged few. tion where they are working two jobs, I can’t imagine that. That is not the Illinois, one of the things I find doubly three jobs just trying to hold it to- America I know and the majority of insulting about wasting this time is gether. I mean I have seen numbers Americans care about right now. that the legislation we are trying to Mr. DURBIN. I would say to the Sen- that show almost half the families in get to is a small business bill so small ator from Michigan, by way of a ques- Michigan have somebody in their im- businesses can get loans to hire people. tion in closing, that it would seem to mediate family who has lost their job. So we are trying to create jobs and, in- me a person who is unemployed, who The idea of saying that somehow stead, all this time is being wasted on doesn’t get the basic check they need that is all because people are lazy, an effort just to try to help people get to survive and is forced to live in their well, I would not say the words I would by. car, that is a more compelling argu- truly like to say, but I would just say Mr. DURBIN. Let’s get to the hot- ment to me than giving a tax break to that is a bunch of bunk—the idea that button issue—the deficit. Because someone who needs to buy a newer car. somehow Americans who have worked every Republican who comes to the That is what is being argued on the all their lives and are caught up in this floor tries to explain why we should other side of the aisle. It is a complete are somehow just lazy. But this goes to change the rules when it comes to un- mismatch of priorities. a broader pattern that is extremely employment compensation, why we What I struggle with is the notion of concerning to me, and it is the dif- should deny to millions of Americans how many times the Senator and I ference in world view and how we view that basic unemployment check to get have been called on, as Members of the what should happen and what is impor- by while they are out of work, by say- House and Senate, to stand by some tant in our country. ing it is all about the deficit. part of America that is struggling— When we had a bill in front of us—the I would ask the Senator from Michi- farmers who are struggling because of President just signed it today—to put gan if she would reflect on the fact drought or flood, people who are vic- back some commonsense regulations that many of the same Republican Sen- tims of flood and tornadoes or our on Wall Street so there are no more big ators making that argument were Sen- friends in the Gulf of Mexico whose bailouts and consumers can get good ators who, when they had a chance lives are changed because of BP. How information to be able to protect them- under the previous President, added to many times have we said, as an Amer- selves and their 401(k)s and their sav- our deficit by waging two wars without ican family, we stand together? When ings and to be able to address all the paying for them, who added to our def- it comes to something as basic as food jobs—the 8 million jobs lost since the icit by giving tax cuts to the wealthi- on the table and utility bills for the financial crisis started over a year est people in America without paying poorest people in America because they ago—and when we have a bill on the for them, and in fact doubled the debt are out of work—when there are five floor that takes on the big banks, the of the United States in 8 years’ time unemployed people for every available big bonuses, the recklessness of some with that economic policy and those job—why in the world our Republican on Wall Street, our colleagues on the decisions. friends want to take it out on them at other side of the aisle vote no. Almost These same Republican Senators— this point in time I don’t understand. every single one of them sided with the such as Senator KYL of Arizona—now If there is anything this Congress big banks and the big bonuses. argue that if we give more tax cuts to should do, it is to rally behind those We are going to have a big debate the wealthy people in America and who have lost their jobs and are wor- about whether to extend tax cuts for take that money out of the Treasury rying about losing their jobs—those the wealthiest Americans, whether we and add it to the deficit, it doesn’t working part time, the Senator just should give even bigger tax cuts to the count because tax cuts for wealthy peo- referenced, and who want to work full top couple hundred families with huge ple don’t count when it comes to this time. If we can’t stand together as a estates in this country—to do even deficit discipline they want. Senate behind those families, I think more than President Bush did on tax I ask the Senator from Michigan: we have lost something very basic. I cuts for the wealthy and the wealthy How do you reconcile this; that all of a know I had to put that in the form of estates that are literally only 200 or 300 sudden now this is all about a deficit, a question, so I am going to hazard a families in the country. Our colleagues which the Republican Senators vir- guess: Does the Senator? on the other side of the aisle will argue tually ignored for 8 years while we Ms. STABENOW. Well, I absolutely for that. They will argue that is the reached the stage of today. agree. I wish to thank the Senator for right thing to do. That is a different

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That is why we have been fo- rough ride, trying to do this on the limited Joint Resolutions.’’) cused on jobs and on innovation. While funding already. Mr. JOHANNS. I yield the floor and I we aren’t out of the hole—we are no- Now I have to make a choice. This is an in- suggest the absence of a quorum. where near out of the hole—we are at credibly hard choice. I have to quit training The PRESIDING OFFICER. The least digging our way out. There were to get a job or continue training and live clerk will call the roll. 750,000 a jobs a month being lost when with no income whatsoever. My decision The legislative clerk proceeded to must be made in the best interests of my President Obama took office. We child. I worked tremendously hard to be at call the roll. changed the focus to working families, the top of my class in my training and now Mr. CASEY. Madam President, I ask to middle-class families, and by the I am faced with the fact that it was all for unanimous consent that the order for end of the year that was zero. Now we nothing. the quorum call be rescinded. are gaining 100,000 or 200,000 a month, The last year of hard work and study is The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without but we are at least gaining. lost. The grants I received for Michigan objection, it is so ordered. Works were used fruitlessly. I know you are Mr. CASEY. Madam President, we I am not happy at all about the un- fighting for me and all the others in my posi- employment levels in Michigan. But tion but I feel I need to let someone know are spending time today in so many when President Obama took office we . . . what is happening. ways talking about where the Amer- were looking at 15.7 percent—unbeliev- There are so many people who have ican people are right now with regard able—and that is just the people being sent letters and e-mails and who have to this horrific economy, where we had counted. Now it has come down a little called me. They are just trying to play and still have some of the worst job bit, a little bit, a little bit, and now it by the rules and care for their families numbers in a long time. is 13.2. That is still way, way too high, and get another job or go back to Fortunately, the economy is recov- but at least it is moving in the right school or do the things we all want to ering. The American Recovery and Re- direction. We had 8 years of it moving do for our families to be able to live a investment Act, which I voted for, and in the wrong direction and we have good life, be able to have that Amer- many of us did, has a positive impact turned the ship and it is beginning to ican dream as we define it. It is ex- along with other job creation strate- turn around. tremely unfortunate that we find our- gies. We are happy about that. But we The problem we have is that while it selves in a situation where we continue know we still have a way to go to fully is slow in terms of job creation, too to see objections and blocking and ef- recover. many families are caught in the middle forts just to stop something as basic as One of the best ways to ensure that on this, waiting for that next job, temporary assistance for people who those who are out of work, through no wanting that next job that is going to have lost their jobs. fault of their own, can get from a situ- pay enough so they can care for their We will get this done. We will get it ation of joblessness to a job, is to make family. They are caught in a situation done. It will pass. The difference be- sure we use programs that we put in they never thought they would be in, in tween what is happening here and what place over years and that workers and their life and they are embarrassed and could have been if we had gotten it families have contributed to to give they are mortified and they are angry. done yesterday is it is going to be a few them the opportunity for unemploy- They are looking at the Senate and more days before somebody gets the ment benefits as they transition or go saying: What is going on here? You help they need. I do not know how across that very long bridge from un- can’t even get it together to do what many people will lose their houses be- employment to a situation where they every other President, Democrat and cause those few more days mean they are back at work. Republican, has done in the history of can’t make that payment in time and We have had months and months of our country to come together and to they end up on the street or how many debate about this issue. Finally, yes- understand this is an emergency—15 missed meals, how much hunger, how terday, we were able to get beyond yet million people plus is an emergency— many times their kids go to bed at another hurdle that was erected by the and that we ought to be extending the night hungry because we are wasting Republican side of the aisle, and now small unemployment insurance bene- all this time on the Senate floor. we are at a point where we are beyond I can tell you there are many of us, fits to families who are caught in this. that procedural hurdle. That is what this is all about. We those of us on our side, who understand Instead of allowing the Senate to fi- what this means for people. We are find ourselves in a situation where we nally at long last vote on unemploy- deeply sorry families are in this situa- are wasting time right now on the floor ment insurance and to extend it, to tion. They need to know we are going of the Senate that we could be using give families some peace of mind in to continue to fight, we are going to after voting to extend unemployment this terrible economy they have lived continue to be there, we are going to benefits to go on to small business, through, to give businesses some cer- continue to do everything we can to which is also absolutely critical for us. tainty in terms of what the job picture support them and their families until The No. 1 concern from businesses is will look like in a matter of months, everybody in this country who needs a and also to take a step when we extend the inability to get a loan, to get the job and wants a job and is able to work unemployment insurance, to take a capital they need to extend their line has one and can get themselves back step in the right direction to continue of credit to do business or be able to on their feet and have the kind of life to jump-start the economy—one of the expand, to get the loans they need. they want for themselves and their best ways to do that is by extending That is the bill we have waiting in the families. wings. That is the one we are trying to I yield the floor and suggest the ab- unemployment insurance, because get done. sence of a quorum. when you do that, you have an addi- Instead of focusing on that, which is The PRESIDING OFFICER. The tional benefit. The obvious benefit is to jobs and small business, which is the clerk will call the roll. a worker and his or her family and, by growth engine of the country, we wait. The legislative clerk proceeded to extension, the community or neighbor- We watch the clock—30 hours. For call the roll. hood they live in. whatever reason I do not know. But I Mr. JOHANNS. Madam President, I But there is yet another benefit, a think it is a shame. ask unanimous consent the order for second or a third benefit, that is de- I want to close reading a letter. I get the quorum call be rescinded. pending on how you count each benefit. thousands of e-mails. I am sure my col- The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. You know, if you spend a dollar on ex- league does too. I find them very heart- HAGAN). Without objection, it is so or- tending unemployment insurance, you breaking. I want to read a little bit to dered. get a lot more than a dollar back.

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So there is States who write to us or send us an e- work with us in the Federal Govern- an economic benefit for the whole mail or somehow communicate with us ment. country when we extend unemploy- about their own circumstances. So when folks come to this floor and ment insurance. This isn’t simply Not too long ago, I received an e-mail talk a lot about, we want to help, the about the obligation I believe we have from a woman named Kimberly. She argument basically is, we want to help, to help those families who don’t have a and her husband have two children in we understand, but we don’t want to breadwinner, as someone who has lost college. Her husband has been out of run up the deficit. They make that ar- their job, to help them get through this work for a year. It is hard to com- gument. I wish the same folks who difficult period. That is reason enough prehend that, what it is like to need a make that argument and the pas- to extend it and it is reason enough to job to provide for your family and you sionate arguments about the deficit treat it as the emergency it is and to not only don’t have a job but you don’t and not using an emergency strategy even, in my judgment, add to the def- have a job for a year or longer. So to help the unemployed, I wish they icit to do that. But there is also that many families have been living had that same sense of worry and out- other benefit, isn’t there, the benefit to through that. rage about the deficit when they were the economy overall—spend a buck and She said: giving tax breaks—hundreds of billions get a lot more back—because we know We have been struggling for a year while of dollars—to very wealthy Americans, that when we extend unemployment in- he looks for full-time employment with hundreds of billions year after year surance, those dollars go right back which he can again support our family. after year to very wealthy Americans into the economy and create other jobs Then, speaking about her job, she and not being too worried about the and other economic activity and there- says: deficit in those days. In fact, some on fore economic opportunity for people I don’t make a lot of money. I don’t make the other side of the aisle were heard who have nothing to do—have no con- enough to support us. And I especially don’t to say at the time that deficits don’t nection to unemployment insurance. make enough to put my kids through col- matter; that if it is tax cuts, if that is Thank goodness a lot of people don’t lege. your priority, if you want to vote, if have to worry about unemployment in- Then she goes on to say: you want to put forth and move for- surance because they still have a job. We may not starve, but we won’t be able to ward a tax cut policy for the very They have some security. pay our creditors. We’ll be looking at pos- wealthy, at that time, in their judg- So there are at least two or three sible bankruptcy. I may have to pull my ment, there was nothing wrong with basic reasons we should be extending daughter out of her 4-year university and running up the deficit. unemployment insurance. With all of send her to a community college, and we Now when we make the argument the evidence, with all of the very com- won’t be able to buy clothes or even enjoy that this is an emergency, the way it pelling and, I would argue, irrefutable simple pleasures like dining out or going to has been treated for years by people on evidence that this is good for workers the movies. both sides of the aisle—unemployment and their families, it is necessary to Something as simple as that. insurance in the midst of a horrific re- help them, and it is also good for all of I spoke yesterday about a woman cession is, in fact, an emergency—and us in the larger economy because of the who had written to me, Rachel, who they voted that way, now they are in- jump-starting and stimulating aspect talked about her husband having lost consistent, not only inconsistent when of the expenditure of those dollars, you his job and deciding to join the Na- it comes to all of a sudden insisting would think the folks on the other side tional Guard in order to be able to have that they can’t support anything that of the aisle would agree with us. But some job, some livelihood, as well as be would increase the deficit even in a they haven’t for many, many weeks. able to get a little bit better health limited manner—that is inconsistent, Now we know we have the votes to care coverage. but I believe it is even more out- get this done. Yet they are still allow- These stories are real. They are not rageously inconsistent when you say: I ing all these hours to pass that they anecdotal. They are common in one will vote for tax cuts for the wealthy could waive very easily and say: We sense or another. There might be dif- and run up the deficit, but I am not know we lost—I am speaking from the ferences from one family to the other, going to take steps to increase unem- Republican side of the aisle—we have but there are a couple of universal re- ployment insurance or to extend unem- lost the procedural votes, so let’s just alities here for people. Joblessness, ployment insurance. vote on final passage and get this ex- being out of work, does, in most in- So what you have is not only hypoc- tension approved. They seem to want stances, lead to a situation where you risy and blatant inconsistency, but you to play politics with the critically im- lose your health insurance coverage. have hypocrisy and inconsistency and portant issue for the American people. Joblessness robs people of their basic political gamesmanship that is hurting We are going to extend the unemploy- dignity. It diminishes their confidence real people. There are hundreds of ment insurance, and it is going to hap- in their own worth, their own value to thousands of people. If we look across a pen. So why would you insist on the their family, whether it is a mother couple of months, literally millions of hours that are required—not required being out of work or a father or a sib- Americans have been denied unemploy- but the hours that are part of the proc- ling. This kind of worry and anxiety ment insurance and will be denied un- ess and allow that to slow this down? plus the basic insecurity of not being employment insurance if these games I was on the floor yesterday talking able to pay bills is horrific, absolutely keep playing out, if these political ob- about a number of Pennsylvanians. One horrific, something that not many peo- stacles are erected every couple of gentleman I spoke about, I talked ple—maybe a few, maybe a few Sen- weeks or every couple of months. about, reading from his letter, the ators can understand it, but not many It is a very basic choice: We can vote worry he had, a gentleman out of work, can understand what it is like not to right away and get beyond this and ex- worried about his family, worried have income and not to have health tend unemployment insurance or we about his 12-year-old daughter who has care. can still have the games people are cystic fibrosis, worrying about how he Everyone here, every Senator has a playing and the hypocrisy we have seen is going to have insurance cover her steady income. It is reliable. It is there on display and continue playing games condition, and also worrying about every month. You get paid every while people are out of work, while whether he can make ends meet, would month. Every Senator gets health care people are hurting, and while families he find a job, would he be able to pro- coverage. We have that security for are suffering. It is very simple. There is vide for his family. That worry is uni- ourselves and for our families. I realize no kind of in-between here—you are ei- versal when it comes to this issue, the that some at some point in their lives ther on one side of this issue or the

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For the first first thing we have to do is make sure what is in the bill until the bill is time in our Nation’s history, the Fed- we are taking every step necessary to passed. eral Government is ordering the Amer- help people who are out of work There have been so many broken ican people to use their own hard- through no fault of their own and to promises made by this administration earned money to buy a specific good or continue this recovery by creating the and this President to the American service. jobs that we know have been and will people. It is no surprise that a majority Most people I talk to, who see continue to be created as we move for- of the American people continue to through all of the games and the word- ward. But we have to get beyond this. want to have this law repealed and re- ing, say this is a tax. Even ABC News’s We should not be waiting hours to get placed. George Stephanopoulos clearly pointed this final vote in place so we can pass Well, let’s review a couple of those this out during a September 2009 inter- an extension of unemployment insur- promises. One is the President said: view with then President Obama. In ance and move forward and help those The plan I’m announcing tonight— that interview, Mr. Stephanopoulos workers and help those families. and he said this to a joint session of Con- pressed President Obama, pressed him I yield the floor. gress, with those of us here attending— to admit that the individual mandate The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- The plan I’m announcing tonight. . . .will is a tax. He asked President Obama: ator from Wyoming. slow the growth of health care costs for our But you reject that it’s a tax increase? HEALTH CARE REFORM families, our businesses, and our govern- And the President responded: Mr. BARRASSO. Madam President, I ment. I absolutely reject that notion. come to the floor to visit about the Well, the Chief Actuary for Medicare Well, Mr. President, apparently your continuation of revelations to the and Medicaid said, of course, the Presi- own administration disagrees with you. American people about the health bill dent is wrong. And clearly your Justice Department that has been signed into law by the Then the President said: If you like disagrees with you. Because as the New President. I come as someone who has your health care plan, you will be able York Times reported, on July 16—just practiced medicine in Wyoming, taking to keep your health care plan, period. this past Sunday—it said: care of the families of Wyoming for the He said: No one will take it away, pe- Administration officials say the tax argu- last 25 years. I come as someone who is riod. He said: No matter what, period. ment is a linchpin of their legal case in de- the medical director of the Wyoming But then the Chief Actuary of Medi- fense of the health care overhaul and its in- Health Fair, offering low-cost blood care and Medicaid said 14 million dividual mandate, now being challenged in screens, low-cost preventive services to Americans would lose their employer- court by more than 20 states and several pri- let people identify health problems sponsored health coverage under the vate organizations. early so they can get early treatment, law. And when the White House came It is so interesting. Just the first keep down the cost of their medical out with its own recommendations and paragraph: care. This is something we have done rules and regulations, even they have When Congress required most Americans all around the State of Wyoming for al- said a majority of Americans who re- to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty, Democrats— most a quarter of a century now. ceive their health coverage through I come today to offer a doctor’s sec- work will not be able to keep the cov- In this very Chamber— ond opinion. I have done this every erage the President of the United denied that they were creating a new tax. week since the health care bill became States promised them they could keep. But in court, the Obama administration and And now the one where the President its allies now defend the requirement as an law because every week there is a new exercise of the government’s ‘‘power to lay revelation, a new finding, something said: I can make a firm pledge. Under and collect taxes.’’ that once again affirms what those of my plan, no family making less than So there you have it. The article says us who opposed this health care bill $250,000 a year will see any form of tax the Justice Department now believes— and this law had said would happen if increase. the Justice Department takes direction He went on to be specific. He said: this actually became law. from the President—the Justice De- not your income taxes, not your pay- I come to the floor to tell my col- partment believes the individual man- leagues what I have found in the last roll taxes, not your capital gains taxes, date penalty is a tax precisely because week. After all, the goal of health care not any of your taxes. it generates money, $4 billion per year That is what the President happened reform was to lower costs, to increase through 2017. That is according to the to say. quality, and to improve access for pa- Congressional Budget Office. So you Well, that was not just a candidate tients around the country. I continue have the President promising the speaking that way. Even as President, to believe week after week, as Ameri- American people one thing and direct- in September of 2009, in a speech before cans learn more and more about this ing his Justice Department to say ex- Congress, President Obama again law, that this is a law that is going to actly the opposite. be bad for patients—I heard that as I promised the American people: Well, you might say, is this partisan? traveled the State of Wyoming this The middle class will realize greater secu- No. We are talking about a New York past weekend talking to folks; bad for rity, not higher taxes. Times article. The New York Times providers, nurses and doctors taking What a difference a year makes. The goes on to quote Jack Balkin, who is a care of patients; and something that is President’s new health care law does professor of law at the Yale Law going to be bad for payers, people who contain tax hikes—lots of them. In School. This is somebody who actually are going to have to pay the bills for fact, there are at least 18 new taxes in supports the health care law. This is a their own health care, because costs the health care law, and it raises ap- supporter of the health care law. What are going up, people paying for their proximately $500 billion over a 10-year does he say about President Obama? He own health insurance because costs are period. said he ‘‘has not been honest with the going up, taxpayers who are going to Here are a couple of examples: new American people about the nature of have to pay for this because those costs taxes on medical devices and supplies, this bill.’’ He says: ‘‘This bill is a tax.’’ continue to go up. new taxes on brandname prescription So here you have a supporter of the I come to the floor having just taken drugs, new taxes on health insurance health care law, a supporter—a Yale a look at the Sunday New York Times, providers, increased Medicare payroll Law School professor—who goes on to an article by Robert Pear: ‘‘Changing taxes on employers. But the most egre- say of President Obama, he ‘‘has not Stance, the Administration now De- gious is the individual mandate tax. been honest with the American people fends Insurance Mandate as a Tax.’’ I That is the one that the American peo- about the nature of this bill.’’ He said: stood on this floor week after week ple are so concerned about right now. ‘‘This bill is a tax.’’

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I offer my second opinion, and it is helping Delaware small businesses Congress’s Joint Committee on Tax- time to repeal and replace this health thrive. ation confirms the tax hikes in the care law. Jayne, a native of Pittsburgh, health care law absolutely will hit mil- Madam President, I yield the floor. worked in advertising, high-tech eco- lions of middle-class, working-class I suggest the absence of a quorum. nomic development, and higher edu- families struggling in this economy. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cation development before joining the Once again, we see and hear the clerk will call the roll. SBA in 1994. She holds bachelor’s and President of the United States prom- The assistant legislative clerk pro- master’s degrees from West Virginia ising the American people one thing ceeded to call the roll. University. First serving as the district and delivering something entirely dif- Mr. KAUFMAN. Mr. President, I ask director for West Virginia and regional ferent. unanimous consent that the order for advocate in the SBA’s Office of Advo- The President went on national TV the quorum call be rescinded. cacy, Jayne helped organize the White and said his individual mandate was The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- House Conference on Small Businesses not a tax. Now the President’s adminis- pore. Without objection, it is so or- in 1995. She also represented the SBA tration says it is. dered. in Russia during the first-ever formal So I come to the floor again today Mr. KAUFMAN. Mr. President, I ask exchange between American and Rus- with a doctor’s second opinion, out- unanimous consent to speak as in sian entrepreneurs the following year. Since coming to Delaware and, Mr. lining the broken promises of this morning business for up to 5 minutes. President, I should add that she has health care law—the broken promises The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- lived in my home State for the past 10 made by this President and this admin- pore. Without objection, it is so or- dered. years—Jayne has become one of the istration to the American people, and greatest advocates for First State en- PRAISING JAYNE ARMSTRONG forcing through, cramming down their trepreneurs. She has helped hundreds throats, against the wishes of the Mr. KAUFMAN. Mr. President, I rise of Delawareans turn ideas into busi- American people, a law the American once more to honor one of America’s nesses. Nothing, including the eco- people did not want, and still do not great Federal employees. nomic downturn, slows her down in her want. Because if you go to any senior Last week, the Senate focused a lot drive to help small business owners ob- center, if you go to any civic organiza- of its attention on reforming our regu- tain the loans they need to open or ex- tion, if you travel around this country lation of Wall Street. As important as pand. and you ask the question: Under this that is, we must not forget that the Jayne has placed a particular empha- law, do you believe the cost of health health of our economy depends on the sis on helping entrepreneurs take ad- care will go up, all the hands will go success of businesses on Main Street. vantage of SBA loan programs created up. And if you ask the question: Do you Small businesses form the backbone of through the Recovery Act, such as think the quality of your own care our prosperity and embody the Amer- Queen Bee Beauty Supply in Smyrna, a under this new law will go down, the ican dream for millions of families. minority woman-owned business, and same number of hands continue to go From the colonial merchants at our Miller Metal Fabrication in up. beginning to those who opened stores Bridgeville, a design engineering and That is why it is important we repeal in frontier towns in the 19th century, manufacturing company. and replace this health care law with from the mom and pop shops in the These are just two of the hundreds of something that is patient centered, postwar years to the online start-ups of businesses that have Jayne and the with something that focuses on pa- our day, small businesses have driven SBA to thank for helping them get tients, not Washington bureaucrats our economy. their start or expand into new opportu- and not insurance company bureau- Over the past 57 years, the Small nities. crats. There is no reason to not allow Business Administration has been help- Jayne is also substantially involved Americans to buy insurance across ing small business owners obtain loans in our State’s nonprofit community. State lines. There is no reason not to and find resources to help them pros- She serves on the boards of Girls, Inc., allow Americans who want to buy indi- per. By guaranteeing loans that small the Caesar Rodney Rotary Club, and vidual insurance to get the same tax businesses take out from banks, the Delaware Tech’s Entrepreneurial Advi- breaks. They should be able to get the SBA enables entrepreneurs to grow and sory Consortium, among others. same tax breaks as those who get their develop their businesses with con- Former Governor Ruth Ann Miller ap- insurance through work from the big fidence, which helps create jobs and pointed her to serve on the Delaware companies with those tax breaks. improve local economies. Commission for Women. We have to allow people to have indi- It was created out of the old Recon- The SBA serves as a fitting example vidual incentives if they stay healthy struction Finance Corporation, which of how the Federal Government works and take measures to keep down the was set up during the Hoover adminis- with the private sector to fuel job cre- ation—a goal we are continuing to cost of their own care. We have to deal tration to lend capital to businesses focus heavily on in this Congress. hurt by the Great Depression. The SBA with lawsuit abuse, which was essen- I hope my colleagues will join me in tially neglected in this over 2,000-page was founded in 1953, on the cusp of an thanking Jayne Armstrong and all of health care law. We need to encourage economic boom that saw the prolifera- the men and women at the Small Busi- and allow small businesses to join to- tion of new small businesses through- ness Administration for their hard gether to get the cost of their health out the Nation. work to help our small business sector care down and the cost of their insur- In 1964, the SBA’s Equal Opportunity grow and prosper. They are all truly ance down. Loan Program helped tackle poverty great Federal employees. Those are the things that will get the by encouraging new businesses started I yield the floor and suggest the ab- cost of care down—not this monstrous by entrepreneurs living below the pov- sence of a quorum. bill that is bad for patients, bad for erty line. In the aftermath of natural The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- providers, and bad for the payers of disasters, the SBA provides emergency pore. The clerk will call the roll. health care. That is why week after assistance to help keep small busi- The bill clerk proceeded to call the week I continue to come to the Senate nesses running. Today, the SBA con- roll. floor to once again go over what we tinues to play an important role in Mrs. SHAHEEN. Mr. President, I ask have learned in the past week. This helping small business owners launch unanimous consent that the order for week we have learned the President of and grow their businesses. the quorum call be rescinded.

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Without objection, it is so or- When Janet needed a loan to save her that will help free up capital for small dered. company, she looked everywhere for firms to make investments and, most AMERICAN JOBS ACT help. But with credit tight and with importantly, to hire workers because Mrs. SHAHEEN. Mr. President, this uncertain economy, she had a hard that, in fact, is what the small business today, hopefully, we will finally extend time finding a bank that would finance jobs bill is all about. It is to help pro- unemployment insurance to those who her project to keep the business afloat. vide the boost that small businesses in can’t find a job in this difficult eco- Then she turned to a bank that partici- New Hampshire and across the country nomic climate. Our next task is to help pated in an SBA loan guarantee pro- need, not just so they can be successful small employers and entrepreneurs gram. She was able to work with her and grow, but so they can create jobs— grow their businesses and hire new bank to get the credit she needed to the jobs that we need to put people workers. That is the only way we will save her business. back to work in this country. fully emerge from this recession. Unfortunately, too many small busi- I am excited that we are going to be Over the past 15 years, small busi- nesses can’t take advantage of loan taking up this legislation. I hope it is nesses have created almost two-thirds guarantees because the loans have been going to be today. I urge my colleagues of the new jobs in America. Small busi- too limited, and they do not fit their to join me in supporting this critical nesses are the cornerstone of New needs. But the small business jobs bill bill to help improve job prospects for Hampshire’s economy. Over 96 percent opens these programs to more busi- people across the country. of businesses in the Granite State are nesses. It increases the size of the loans Mr. President, I suggest the absence small businesses with fewer than 500 that businesses can obtain, it allows of a quorum. employees. That is why we need, once small businesses to refinance their debt The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- we have passed the extension of unem- at lower rates, and it extends the high- pore. The clerk will call the roll. ployment insurance, to pass the Small er guarantee rates that were included The assistant editor of the Daily Di- Business Jobs Act as soon as possible. in the Recovery Act. The SBA esti- gest proceeded to call the roll. This is legislation that will dramati- mates that these provisions will put Mr. SANDERS. Mr. President, I ask cally increase lending to small busi- over $5 billion in credit into the hands unanimous consent that the order for nesses, it will enhance the ability of of small businesses. the quorum call be rescinded. small companies to export, and it will The bill also funds successful State The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- provide tax relief to small firms. small business lending programs—pro- pore. Without objection, it is so or- I am proud that as a member of the grams that have helped save many dered. Small Business Committee I helped small businesses and helped others fi- ESTATE TAX craft this bill under the leadership of nance their growth. These programs, Mr. SANDERS. Mr. President, every the chair of that committee, Senator such as our own—the New Hampshire day it becomes harder and harder for MARY LANDRIEU, and ranking member Business Finance Authority’s Capital me to listen to my Republican friends Senator OLYMPIA SNOWE. I want to Access Program—and other successful who race down to the Senate breath- thank both of them for their work and small business lending programs, can lessly telling the American people how for their leadership on this bill. quickly get credit into the hands of the concerned they are about the $13 tril- While many community banks in small companies that need it the most. lion national debt we have and how New Hampshire have increased their The bill also includes a proposal that ‘‘we have to get our financial house in lending, I consistently hear from small I worked very hard on to allow more order.’’ That is what they tell us every businesses that they have run out of fi- small businesses in New Hampshire to single day. But a funny thing hap- nancing for the working capital they access the SBA’s Express Loan Pro- pened: under the leadership of Presi- need. Last year, my office organized a gram. The Express Loan Program is dent George W. Bush, these very same financing fair to bring together lenders popular with banks in New Hampshire Republicans turned a recordbreaking and small businesses who need financ- because it cuts redtape and allows Federal surplus left by President Clin- ing, and over 500 people showed up. It them to use their own paperwork in ton into recordbreaking deficits. Back was a huge turnout. But still, wherever making the loans. It is a simple way to then, as we all recall, not so many I go in New Hampshire, small business quickly put working capital into the years ago, their rallying cry was ‘‘defi- owners tell me they are running out of hands of small business owners. cits don’t matter.’’ That was articu- financing options. In some cases, their Another important way we can in- lated by Vice President Dick Cheney. only choice is to turn to credit cards, crease the bottom lines of small busi- This ‘‘deficits don’t matter’’ philos- often personal credit cards, paying ex- nesses is by helping them sell their ophy gave us two wars that were not orbitant interest rates to get the work- products overseas, something I have paid for, including the war in Iraq, ing capital they need to keep their been supportive of for a very long time. which may end up costing us $3 tril- businesses going. Of the small- and medium-sized busi- lion. It gave us $700 billion in tax The small business jobs bill will en- nesses in this country, only about 5 breaks—no worry about paying for hance Small Business Administration percent are selling into markets over- those tax breaks that went to the very loan programs that help small busi- seas. Yet 99 percent of those markets wealthiest people in our country. It nesses in New Hampshire and through- are outside of the United States. For gave us $400 billion in an unpaid-for out the country as they try to access many of these small businesses that prescription drug Medicare Part D bill. the credit they need to hire workers, to would like to export, it can be very And, of course, it gave us a $700 billion grow their businesses, and to weather challenging because, unlike big compa- bailout of Wall Street developed by the economic storm. nies, they often don’t have the tech- President Bush and his Secretary of In the past year, many small busi- nical capacity or the resources to iden- the Treasury, Mr. Paulson. No worry; nesses in New Hampshire have taken tify new markets, to go on trade mis- in those days, we did not have to pay advantage of the enhancements to the sions, and to market their products to for any of that. It is OK, just add it SBA programs that were included in foreign buyers. onto the debt of our kids and our the Recovery Act. One business owner The small business jobs bill will help grandchildren. in New Hampshire, Janet Dunican, was these small firms access new markets But it seems our Republican friends able to save her business with an SBA because it boosts Federal and State recently, about a year and three-quar- loan. Janet owns an innovative manu- programs that help small businesses ters ago, had a change of heart. Coinci- facturing company in Hooksett, NH. export their products. It also strength- dentally, that was when President

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He who lost their jobs in the worst reces- tate tax. Would it be a small business- believed in a meritocracy and that it sion in modern history. They tell us we person, the people who are creating al- was appropriate that those people pay just cannot afford to invest in our most all of the new jobs in our econ- a fair share of taxes. economy to rebuild our crumbling in- omy? Would small business be helped This is what he said: frastructure or transform our energy when we repeal the estate tax? No, not The absence of effective state and espe- system, which would create, over a pe- those guys. Would it be a single mom cially national restraint upon unfair money- riod of years, millions of good-paying who wants to send her kid to college getting has tended to create a small class of jobs. We can’t do that. We don’t have for the first time in their family’s life- enormously wealthy and economically pow- the money to do that. time? No, that single mom is not going erful men, whose chief object is to hold and The Republican hypocrisy is about to increase their power . . . Therefore I [Teddy to be helped, not anybody on Social Se- Roosevelt] believe in a . . . graduated inher- reach a whole new level, literally, curity, not the people who need the itance tax on big fortunes, properly safe- today. In the name of fiscal responsi- help the most. They don’t get one guarded against evasion and increasing in bility, while they oppose every effort penny from the repeal of the estate amount with the size of the estate. to help the middle-class and working tax, as Senator DEMINT is proposing. Teddy Roosevelt, 1910. I think our families of our country, today an Who benefits? Who are the bene- Republican friends have kind of dis- amendment is going to come onto the ficiaries of the estate tax or, as my Re- owned Teddy Roosevelt, and we don’t floor which is specifically designed to publican friends and their pollsters hear him quoted terribly much any- provide huge tax breaks to millionaires like to refer to it, the death tax? If we more. and billionaires. In other words, there pass what Senator DEMINT wants us to In order to sell this concept of repeal- is no money available to help desperate do today, completely repeal the estate ing the estate tax to the American peo- families who have lost their jobs, but tax, it would provide an estimated $32.7 ple, Republican pollsters—I have to there is all kinds of money to provide billion tax break for the Walton fam- admit, we have to be honest about huge tax breaks to millionaires and ily, the founders and owners of this—have done a very good job. They billionaires. Walmart—a $32.7 billion tax break for a framed this tax break for billionaires Finally, last night, as a result of the family that is worth almost $87 billion. into a death tax. So people on the appointment of a new Senator from Some people here may think the Wal- street in Burlington, VT, come up to West Virginia, we got the 60 votes we ton family—worth almost $100 billion— me and say: BERNIE, I want to leave my needed to end the Republican filibuster is in desperate need of a tax break at a kids $20,000. Why are they going to tax so that we can extend unemployment time when we have a $13 trillion na- me? The Republican pollsters have benefits. But instead of allowing this tional debt. I am not one of those peo- done a very good job and their lobby- bill to pass yesterday, as common de- ple. I do not think they do. ists have done a very good job in mis- cency would allow, so we can begin to But it is not just the Walton family, leading the public. As usual, Repub- get the money out to those families obviously, who will benefit. Other very licans are using the old tactic of pre- who are wondering right now how they wealthy families will. Do you remem- tending to worry about the needs of or- are going to buy the food they need, ber those hedge fund managers on Wall dinary people as a smokescreen to pay the rent, pay the mortgage, the Street who made $1 billion a year or serve the wealthy special interests. Republicans are forcing the Senate to several billion a year? They are going That is what they do very well. If you wait another 30 hours before final pas- to benefit. Those are the guys—the are in the middle class and you want to sage. people who drove us into the recession, leave your family $1 million or $2 mil- Adding insult to injury, my good who made huge amounts of money lion or $100,000, this doesn’t apply to friend from South Carolina, Senator gambling on Wall Street. They will be you; you don’t benefit one nickel. This DEMINT, wants to suspend the rules so very happy if that amendment passes. is for millionaires and billionaires. the Senate can take up legislation to They benefit. The Mars candy family The other thing they talk about is, permanently repeal the estate tax. will get an $11 billion tax break; the we have to preserve the family farm This, even for the Senate, is really Cox cable family, $9 billion tax breaks. and the estate tax is wiping out family weird and really extraordinary. In the Remember, this law has been in ex- farms. I am a strong advocate of fam- midst of telling us how serious the def- istence since 1916. And remember ily-based agriculture, and in terms of icit is, how serious the national debt is, again, it only benefits the top three- the preservation of family farms, the these folks want to give tax breaks to tenths of 1 percent, and 99.7 percent of American Farm Bureau was asked to billionaires by permanently repealing the American people, working people, come up with an example of one single the estate tax and, as this chart shows, middle-class, lower income people, family farm being lost as a result of adding more than $1 trillion to the def- upper middle-class people, don’t benefit the estate tax. They could not find one icit over 10 years. That is a very un- one nickel from this tax break which farm that had to be sold as a result of usual way to deal with our deficit cri- costs us $1 trillion over a 10-year pe- the estate tax. This is not legislation sis, by adding $1 trillion to the na- riod. to help family farmers. This is legisla- tional debt over a 10-year period. Fur- At a time when our country has a $13 tion to help provide tax breaks for mil- thermore, as this chart shows—and trillion national debt, the highest level lionaires and billionaires. maybe this is the most important point of childhood poverty in the industri- Let me quote from an article that ap- I want to make in my brief remarks— alized world, a crumbling infrastruc- peared in the New York Times July 8, only a tiny fraction of estates from ture, a desperate need to transform our 2001: death in 2009 owed any estate tax. In energy system—I see Senator BOXER, Neil Harl, an Iowa State University econo- fact, 99.7 percent of Americans would who has been a leader in that effort—it mist whose tax advice has made him a house- not receive a nickel from Senator is beyond comprehension to me that hold name among Midwest farmers, said he DEMINT’s legislation. anyone at this moment in American had searched far and wide but had never Four years ago, every Republican ex- history would advocate huge tax found a case in which a farm was lost be- cept two voted to completely eliminate breaks for millionaires and billion- cause of estate taxes. ‘‘It’s a myth,’’ Mr. Harl the estate tax, a tax that has been in aires. said. existence since 1916 and impacts only This concept of the estate tax was de- As it happens, I called up Professor the very richest families in America, veloped by Teddy Roosevelt. He was Harl this afternoon, just a few hours the top three-tenths of 1 percent. Let concerned about two things. He was ob- ago. Interestingly, he told me he has me tell you who the major bene- viously concerned about raising rev- conducted over 3,000 seminars on the

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They do not care about When my Republican friends talk I happen to have the privilege of hav- the deficit. When they are cutting about preserving the family farm— ing been sent here by my State when taxes for their friends, they said: It something we have to do—this estate Bill Clinton was President of the does not matter. I have chapter and tax issue has nothing to do with that. United States. You know what. He in- verse, quotes from their leadership. So In terms of small business, the non- herited huge deficits, and he inherited this is about values. It is about whose partisan Tax Policy Center, as this a tough economic time, and we proved side are you on? I am on the side of the chart indicates, has estimated that that we could both balance the budget American people, the working people. only 80 small businesses and farm es- and create 23 million jobs. When Most of us. BERNIE SANDERS is on that tates throughout the country paid an George W. Bush took the keys to that side. The Republicans who are joining estate tax in 2009, representing 0.003 Oval Office, it took him a matter of us in this vote today are on that side percent of all estates. minutes, figuratively a matter of min- today. This is a history-making day. It This legislation is not for the family utes, to turn surpluses into deficits, is the first time we have ever had a farmer. This legislation is not for small and to bring down the jobs market standoff on this issue. It is the first business. This legislation is specifi- until we got to a point where we were time we have ever seen the Republican cally designed to provide huge tax losing and hemorrhaging jobs at 700,000 Party walk away from working Ameri- breaks to the wealthiest people in this a month. cans like this. Again, when I was here country, millionaires and billionaires, This is important for us to remem- and we balanced the budget, we created at the same time as we have a $13 tril- ber, because it is this date where we surpluses. The Republicans were not lion national debt. say to our Republican friends, if you with us on that. I can honestly say, I Let me conclude by saying this. We have heard our Republican friends care about the people who are trying voted to balance the budget. We did it, week after week, month after month, desperately to get jobs, if you care and we know how to do it, and we are coming down to the floor of the Senate about people who have been hit by this going to do it. But do not turn your and saying, no, we cannot extend un- great recession, then come with us. backs on people who paid into the un- employment benefits to desperate Work with us. Let’s make sure we are employment compensation funds. It is Americans all over this country who, there for those who deserve to have insurance. They paid into it. And they through no fault of their own, have lost this help. have to be actively seeking work. their jobs. We cannot afford to do that. By the way, if I could say, the rules I wanted to read to you a couple of Finally yesterday we got the votes to that go along with getting this unem- stories from my State, of real people. go forward. But having said that, that ployment extension, people do not talk But before I do, I want to talk about they cannot help working families and about that much. You have to prove Mark Zandi. Mark Zandi, chief econo- people who have lost their jobs, they you are ready and willing to work. You mist at Moody’s, was one of the top are now coming down to the floor and have to prove you are actively seeking economic advisers to then-Republican saying, we desperately need to give tax a job. You cannot have been fired for Presidential candidate JOHN MCCAIN. breaks to millionaires and billionaires. cause. And, by the way, you have to He says that every dollar invested in You know, Woody Guthrie had a song have paid into the unemployment in- unemployment benefits, such as we are some years ago. The title was: ‘‘Whose surance fund as well. This is unemploy- going to vote on today, produces $1.61 Side Are You On?’’ The Republicans ment insurance that the workers have in economic activity. The CBO esti- have answered that loudly and clearly. paid into. mates it is $1.90. But when it comes to the needs of the These are people who are actively Why is that? It is because the people unemployed and uninsured, when it seeking work. Guess what. When they who are getting those funds to survive comes to protect the interests of the get there, they find out there are five are going to spend it in the local econ- struggling middle class, the Repub- job seekers for every job. So we say to omy. They are going to go out to the licans are deficit hawks. We know they our friends on the other side of the supermarket; they are going to go to are going to go after them. But if you aisle, where is your heart? Where is the local gas station. Economists of all are a billionaire family who needs a your heart? stripes agree that there is an actual re- huge tax break that will cost $1 trillion A couple of them proved that. They turn on investment here, let alone the over 10 years, they are on your side. stepped up and voted with us. That is morality of standing up for people who, I yield the floor. all. When history is written, I think through no fault of their own, cannot The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- this time is going to go down as a time find a job. pore. The Senator from California is when right triumphs over wrong, be- Let me read what a Sacramento recognized. cause we did get these votes. woman said to me. Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, the Sen- But guess what. Even though the Days go by when I hardly sleep at all, wor- ator from Vermont speaks in very clear other side knows we have those votes, rying about our bills. Since my benefits were words. When he says this debate is they are stalling and stalling and hav- cut off on July 1 at the end of my first exten- about whose side are you on, he could ing us vote on amendments that would sion, we have had to concentrate all of our not be more on target. We have a situa- give the wealthiest Americans their income on paying the rent and buying food tion where we know that when Presi- tax cuts, without paying for it. So and gas. I have not been able to pay any of when a deficit is caused by helping our other bills. I don’t know how long we can dent Obama took office and the Demo- make it like this. crats were increasing their majority, those who earn $1 million a year, $1 bil- I don’t know how long we can make we inherited the worst recession since lion a year, oh, they are happy with it like this. And our friends are stalling the Great Depression. Those are not that. But when you are trying to help and stalling and stalling. Two months just words; that is a fact. mainstream America, middle-class We inherited the worst deficit ever, America, the hard-working people, oh, already they have stalled. A city planner from Los Angeles because under the Republicans, the my goodness, where are they? They are writes: hugest tax cuts ever to people earning not here. Only to delay they are here. more than $1 million a year, $1 billion They are here to delay. The effects of the recession were especially This is an important moment in his- acute for anyone whose industry was deci- a year, went right on the credit card; mated by the financial crisis. Since munici- two wars went right on the credit card; tory, because we always had bipartisan palities are struggling and real estate devel- nothing paid for. support for extending unemployment opment is frozen, jobs in my industry are few Then at the end of George Bush’s compensation. My God, we had it when . . . my unemployment checks stopped term, when we started to see jobs being George W. Bush was President in 2003. abruptly last week before the 4th of July. I

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My children catch me my Republican friends come down here crying at times and ask me why are you cry- 200,000-plus in California, will be able ing, mom? I can’t tell them . . . Please pass and start to demean the people, the to look at their kids and smile a little this bill until this economy strengthens and people like the one who wrote to me, and say: Honey, we still have a chance. more companies start to hire again. the woman who said: I am scared of We are going to get out of these tough If people on the other side of the aisle what might happen if I lose this unem- times. Honey, we are going to do it. can have a good night’s sleep knowing ployment income. We do not want to That is what this place should be this is what is happening in the great- lose our home. My children catch my about at a time such as this, creating est country in the world on our watch, crying and ask me why are you crying, the policies that create the jobs, work- then fine for them. But I have to tell mom? I cannot tell them. Please pass ing together to do so but never forget- you, this is a defining moment of who this bill until this economy strength- ting there are people who just need we are as a Nation. As a Nation. ens. that bridge until, when they go for a I actually had the experience of a po- Well, I make this commitment: if we job, there are not four other people litical analyst, someone who comments have to stay here through the night, there for the same job. That day will on politics, say, well, you could under- until 1 or 2 a.m.—I do not know what come, if we can work together. I make stand why people might need two the other side wants; they have got that commitment. yachts, one on each coast. You know their plan of delaying this—fine, then I yield the floor. what. We better get back to the basics we will stay here until we get it done. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. here: people who need to feed their But we are getting this done, because MERKLEY). The Senator from Okla- families, people who need to pay their it is the right thing to do, because it is homa. rent, people who do not want to lose the right thing to do to people who are Mr. COBURN. Mr. President, I have their home. actively seeking jobs, who have lost listened to my colleague from Cali- We have to do everything we can to jobs through no fault of their own, who fornia. I am somewhat amazed to think revitalize the jobs market. We have have paid into the unemployment com- she would imply we don’t care about taken it from 700,000 jobs lost a month pensation fund. the unemployed. The fact is, we do. I under the Republicans, and we have We are going to keep on working to went through the list of the things she turned it around, but not fast enough, create those jobs so we do not have to mentioned, as did the Senator from not far enough. be here again and again doing this. Vermont. I was not here in 2001. I was That is why the bills we passed here There are things we can do to set the not here in 2003. I was not here when are so critical. But we have no coopera- stake for economic recovery. We have both the wars were initiated. I had no tion on that. It would be one thing if done some of them. I have met the part in any of that. But even had I the other side said, you know, let’s not workers. I have met the workers in my been, the fact is, we can help two do unemployment, but let’s work on State who are working on the 405 free- groups of people with this unemploy- jobs bills. Oh, no, they do not want to way, the 215 freeway, the 805 freeway, ment insurance. There isn’t anybody work on jobs bills. We have got a small the Sacramento Airport, the Caldecott on our side of the aisle who doesn’t business jobs bill. We are praying to tunnel extension, the Doyle Drive ex- think we ought to pass extended unem- God—I am—that we get one or two Re- tension, all up and down my State. ployment benefits. To state or imply publicans. This is a bill that is sup- I have met those workers who have that is absolutely absurd. It is not ported across the board by chambers of those jobs because of the Economic Re- about stalling. The majority leader did commerce, everybody. I know, Mr. covery Act. Our Republican adminis- not allow one amendment to allow us President, how hard you have worked tration in California has stated that at an opportunity to have a vote on to make sure our community banks least 150,000 jobs have been saved or whether we ought to pay for it. can start lending again to small busi- created, and other studies show it is The question isn’t whether we help nesses. more than that. It is not enough. We the unemployed. Every time we have I have been through nine cities in my have to keep working at it. I am sad to offered ways to do so—as a matter of State. I have met with small busi- say all we can hope for are two or three fact, five times it has been rejected nesses. They want access to credit. Republican votes at that. We are grate- that, in fact, our grandchildren should This small business bill is a terrific ful to those brave Republican Senators not have to pay for the unemployment bill, and we can leverage it without it who helped us. We are grateful. I thank benefits of the people who are unem- costing the Federal Government a God for them that they have the cour- ployed today. Five times it has been re- dime, these loans to qualified small age to stand and say yes to the Amer- jected. Multiple times we have chosen businesses through qualified and strong ican people, yes to America’s families, to not do the responsible thing for two community banks, and leverage all of and no to partisan politics. I am so groups of people. It is easy to come to this to be a huge stimulus, and it actu- grateful to them. the Senate floor and throw darts at ally has. Because of the paybacks to When I say that, it probably hurts people who have a drastic disagreement the government, we even make a little them on the other side. I don’t mean to on where we stand in this country. But bit on it. do that. I am just being honest about to imply that they don’t care is out of But we do not have our friends help- how I feel about it. If anyone ever tells bounds. The people in Oklahoma who ing us with that. After they stall this you one vote doesn’t make a difference, are not getting unemployment checks unemployment bill, they will stall into one vote makes a difference. We swore today I care about just as much as the the night. Hey, it is their right. It is in a new Senator from West Virginia to people who don’t have a job who aren’t their right. But it is my right to talk take the place of a leader, Robert C. getting one. But there is another group about how I feel about it. Byrd, who lived his life for working of people whom I am pressed to serve in They will start stalling small busi- people, for the workers in the mines. Oklahoma as well; that is, their chil- ness just as they stalled the tax breaks How appropriate it was that his first dren. The assumption that this body that they claimed they wanted. They vote was to help working people, work- can’t make the hard choices to elimi- stalled the bill that would have given ing people who, through no fault of nate things that are much less impor- the research and development tax cred- their own, can’t find work. tant, much more wasteful, an absolute it to businesses all over this great na- I will wrap up at this point. I am waste of Federal dollars and eliminate tion that need that tax break. ready, so ready for this final vote. If we those things to pay for unemployment They have stalled a lot of other tax have to stay here through five motions insurance is out of the bounds of re- breaks to businesses. There are huge and debate the fact that the wealthiest ality.

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It is the 26 weeks, that will ensure both caring for the front of us and not shifting that re- the routine unemployment, that is paid now and ensuring the future? It is easy sponsibility to generations that follow. for through the unemployment fund. in the Senate to spend money you That is what this debate is all about. The extended benefits, long-term bene- don’t have. The bias is for it. The hard When we left here for one break, we fits, don’t come from any pot of money thing is to take and do the best right had agreed with Senator REID and Sen- except the pot of money of our grand- thing. My colleagues, many on both ator LEVIN about extending unemploy- children’s future. sides of the aisle, in numerous cases ment insurance. We were told by the Let’s put that to rest. There is not a over the last 51⁄2 years, have too often Speaker of the House that she wasn’t Republican or a Democrat or an Inde- done the easy thing. We have all these about to set the precedent of starting pendent in this body who does not want fingers pointing at this administration to pay for unemployment insurance. these folks to get extended unemploy- did this and this administration did Why not? When we have a $1.6 trillion ment benefits. We do. The question is, this. There are plenty of problems for deficit, when we have $13.3 trillion at a time when we are going to borrow every administration and every polit- worth of debt, when we are mortgaging $1.6 trillion this year alone against the ical party to be considered guilty on the future of our children, we are steal- future of our children, whether maybe because too often both groups have ing opportunity away from them as we we can find $30 billion, that doesn’t done the short-term politically expe- do it, why not? Why not meet the chal- come anywhere close to the priorities lenges that are in front of us by re- of helping people who are unemployed dient thing rather than the best right sponding in a way that says meeting today. I reject out of hand the idea thing for the country. I had, at one of the events that my people’s needs today is important, and that we don’t have any compassion. staff attended this weekend, an indi- it is important we not take away from The fact is we do. As a matter of fact, our compassion vidual in Oklahoma who lost his unem- the needs of the future as we do so. Yet is both short term and long term. We ployment insurance. He said: You tell we are lectured that it is a partisan de- are thinking about the habits of Con- Dr. COBURN to be sure and continue to bate. gress that continually put the credit pay for it. I want my unemployment There is nothing partisan about this. card into the machine and borrow insurance. I need my unemployment. I In my soul, I want to help everybody against the prosperity and well-being will not be able to make my house pay- out there who is unemployed and fac- of generations that follow. Let’s not ments unless I get that. But I don’t ing the tough times. But also in my have any more talk about the fact that want that to come from my children soul is that I do not want to mortgage we don’t want people to have unem- and grandchildren. I want it to come the future of any more American chil- ployment. We do. We do want them to from the excesses and waste in Wash- dren, when we have tremendous have unemployment. Multiple times we ington today. amounts of waste, fraud, and duplica- offered ways for that. It may, in fact, So there is another viewpoint, even tion that can easily be eliminated. pass this afternoon or early this though we hear it is a critically non- One of the motions I am going to evening that we are going to extend pertinent viewpoint. This isn’t a par- offer is to cut $40 billion from the Fed- them and not pay for it. But as the tisan issue. This isn’t a delaying tactic. eral Government. America, tell me Senator from California said: It is a de- This is a real philosophical difference what part of this you do not agree fining moment. It certainly is. Is the on how we get out of the mess we are with. The fact is, we are going to ask Federal Government, in this difficult in. that we quit wasting money on real economic situation, going to at least A lot of my colleagues are not happy property. We spend $8 billion a year make some small attempt to rein in that I am a Republican a lot of times maintaining property we do not want. the $300 billion worth of waste, fraud, because I go after my party just as We have $80 billion worth of empty abuse, and duplication in the Federal much as I go after anybody else’s. But buildings. It is costing us $8 billion a Government? The answer we get is no. the fact is, core principles matter. Go year. Should we continue to spend that Discretionary programs over the last 2 look at the history of republics. The $8 billion or should we not spend that years, not counting the stimulus—we Senator from California talks about a $8 billion and take that $8 billion and can have the stimulus debate some defining moment. The defining mo- pay for unemployment insurance? other time—have risen 19.6 percent, ment for the Athenian Republic was How about collecting unpaid taxes when the average wage went up less when they decided to start spending from Federal employees and Members than 2 percent. The Federal Govern- money they didn’t have on things they of Congress. That is $3 billion. As to ment is now twice as big as it was in didn’t need. currently hired Federal employees, it 1999, not counting the stimulus. We Here is our option today. The reason is already adjudicated they owe $3 bil- have 6,400 sets of duplicative programs we are going to have motions is be- lion. I think we ought to pay it back. I that the body will not touch. They are cause we were given no opportunity to do not think we ought to borrow from all designed to do good things for peo- amend. That is the only reason we will the future of our children and grand- ple. They are highly inefficient, highly have motions to suspend the rules. It children because we do not have the ineffective. Yet what we will do is not has nothing to do with a delaying tac- guts to say: Pay up. Quit cheating the that hard work to get rid of the things tic. It has to do with a debate and a Federal Government, employee of the that aren’t working. We will just Senator’s right to offer amendments. Federal Government. That is a small charge our children so we can say we The Senator from California would be number in terms of the number of em- took care of unemployment. doing the same thing if the shoe was ployees, but that is a big number: $3 Hard times require hard decisions. turned the other way. If she was pre- billion. Let’s have them pay up. What we are seeing is the easy way cluded from offering amendments, she Why is it we are not going to elimi- out. The easy way out is to not pay for would find a way to offer an amend- nate $8 billion in bonuses to Federal this. The easy way out is to charge it ment, if she believed from a position, a contractors who did not meet the re- to our children and grandchildren. conscientious position that can be de- quirements to get a bonus, yet we gave There is no difference in the level of fended on the basis of facts. You don’t the bonus anyway? Why not eliminate compassion. Everybody wants to take have to agree with it, but you can’t that rather than charge this to our care of those who are unemployed. The deny there are economic factors that children? Tell me why you will not easy way is to put it on the backs of should play in how we pay for unem- vote for that? Do you think we ought our children and grandchildren. ployment insurance. to be paying bonuses to people who do The question is, Will we do the right You can demean us. You can say we not deserve them, contractors? It is $6 thing for the country? Will we do the are mean. You can say we don’t care. billion over a 4-year period in just the

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If, the past, when somebody is unem- have been offered. in fact, you will pay for it, I will vote ployed who deserves to get unemploy- We have a total of 78 job training with you. It is not like we cannot find ment insurance? I do not understand it. programs outside the Department of $40 billion. Every third grader in this Or eliminating nonessential govern- Labor, costing billions of dollars a country can find $40 billion in this ment travel—one of the things Presi- year, none of which have a metric on budget. There is no rocket science to dent Obama wants to do. We spend bil- them. Yet we do not want to stream- it. There is so much waste, so much du- lions—$14.8 billion, in excess of that— line that, eliminate it, get it down to plication, and so much fraud that any- on Federal travel. We are some of the two or three that are focused—some on body can find it. worst abusers. Yet we will not dis- the chronically unemployed, some on The question is, Do we have the will cipline ourselves and set an example the new workers coming in, some on to do the best right thing for this coun- that we can use a teleconference rather those who are handicapped who might try? One of the things I have learned in than getting on an airplane and going need special assistance. No, we are 51⁄2 years in this body is that when peo- somewhere—a video teleconference. At going to keep the 70-plus programs we ple use straw men and people use half- a time such as this, when we are hav- have because they are somebody’s truths, it is usually because they are ing an economic problem, we will not baby, all of which are highly inefficient hiding something. What is being hidden make the hard decision to make tough and none of which can prove effective- from the American public today? What choices that are maybe not as fun, ness when you measure them with a is this debate truly all about? Is it just maybe not as easy. What I have found metric because they do not have a met- about unemployment or is it about we is a video teleconference is a whole lot ric. They cannot demonstrate they are like the way things are? easier than travel, but we will not effective. We do not want to change the way make that hard choice. We are not So the debate is not about whether things are, we do not want to get out of going to tell the agencies they are we want to help people who are unem- our comfort zone to solve the real prob- going to have to do it. ployed. The debate is about whether we lems of America, so, therefore, we will We will not even put on a Web site all want to help the people who are unem- use all sorts of tactics to deflect what the times we violate our own rules on ployed as well as the generations that the real issues of the day are. pay-go. On February 12, we passed a follow us. What are they? The Senator from law. It used to be a rule in the Senate, I am amazed, and continue to be so, California rightly outlines that mil- but now we passed a law. It is called how easily this body can abandon com- pay-go. It says you cannot have new mon sense. I do not know if we do not lions of Americans need unemployment spending unless you pay for it. Since have it to begin with or if we are simi- compensation right now. I am all for it. February 12, when the President signed lar to a magnet, and it is two positives, What is the other truth about where we that law, we have violated it to the so we repel any common sense. But no- are? The truth is, this country is on an tune of $223 billion, where we said: Oh, body would run any organization—pri- absolute unsustainable course. The time out. The pay-go statute does not vate, public—business or anything else American people have awakened to it. apply. We don’t have to pay for it. We the way we run the agencies in the They know it. don’t have to eliminate all the ineffi- Federal Government. As the Senator from California ciencies, all the duplication. We don’t When you start wanting to do some- knows, this is not new for me. I have 1 have to go after any fraud. We are just thing about it, the only thing you get been doing this for 5 ⁄2 years. So it did going to charge it to our children and is: We can’t. Well, the American people not matter if it was the ‘‘bridge to no- grandchildren. are asking us today: Please, do what where,’’ which a Republican authored, Where is the integrity in that? Where you can. Do what you can. What we can or unemployment compensation today, is the integrity? Where is the character do is we can pay for unemployment for I think we use common sense and do in that? Where is the courage to do the the next multiple periods of months by the best right thing for America, not tough thing that accomplishes both eliminating things that are absolutely the politically easy thing. helping the people who are unemployed unnecessary. So the challenge before us today is to but helping our kids and helping our Do you realize we can save $4.5 bil- go home and explain, when this bill Nation? There is not any. There is lion over the next 10 years by not passes, why we charged it to the least none. It is the easy way out. printing stuff that people do not want. of us. That is whom we are charging it Lest you think I am making up this It is all online. We can save $450 mil- to: to the least of us. stuff, let me give you some examples of lion a year just by putting common I told a story not long ago. In my Federal duplication. I will just give sense into the Government Printing Of- profession as a physician, I have deliv- you four easy examples. We have 70 dif- fice. It has been voted down three ered nearly 4,000 babies—maybe over ferent government programs—70 dif- times on this floor this year. Why not? that. I quit counting. But the thing ferent sets of bureaucracies—that Why do we continue to take the easy that has always gotten me, when I am spend billions of dollars a year, and on task when the future of our country is delivering a baby—and I have a mother none of them is there a metric to meas- going to be determined on whether we there and a father there and that baby ure whether they are effective to help take the hard road and do the hard comes out—is to see the glow on the people with food who are hungry. Why thing that benefits both the coming face and in the eyes of those parents. 70? Why across six or seven different generations and those who are experi- The glow is about hope and promise for agencies? Why not one or two programs encing problems today? the future and about what things can keenly focused with metrics on saying: I tell you why it is. It is because we be and the potential that is unlimited Are we feeding them or not? Why not say we care, but we do not. We play the when that new life is here. You see it eliminate 68 sets of bureaucracy and game, but we do not get in the game. in the parents, and you see them puff overhead? That is a small one. Getting in the game means that you up and say: Wow, what a phenomenon. We have 105 different sets of pro- get criticized, that you offer ideas, As I think about what we do today, grams to incentivize our young people some of which may work and some of we are stealing that. We are taking it to go into math, engineering, science, which may not, but you are not afraid from those kids because we refuse to and technology. It costs $3 billion a to change the game because our kids’ have the backbone and courage to do year, for 105 different programs, in 9 future, our country’s future depend on the hard, yet the best right thing for different Federal agencies. They are changing the game. this country. not in the Department of Education. What we have heard today is the re- We will hear a lot of speeches about They are everywhere. sistance to changing the game. We do how bad we are because we want to pay

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Presi- on my side of the aisle, have run in we don’t have to spend on a good thing, dent Ronald Reagan signed three ex- cross-wise with me on things that let alone a bad thing, but on a good tensions of unemployment compensa- aren’t paid for. They know. It is not a thing while we allow hundreds of bil- tion without paying for it because he fetish; it is that I actually recognize lions of dollars to be wasted every year believed it was an emergency and be- the long-term future of this country in this country. cause he understood what we under- depends on us getting our fiscal house So when we hear the cry that some- stand. He understood that when we, in in order. body doesn’t care, we have to ask the fact, make sure unemployed people So it is a defining moment, as the question, What do they care about? have this insurance—which they paid Senator from California said. But it is Can we care for those who are unem- into, by the way—they will spend it lo- not the defining moment she thinks it ployed today as well as care for our cally, and every dollar of that unem- is. It is the defining moment of wheth- kids? Yes, we can. It is really not all ployment compensation brings to the er this body is going to grab onto and that hard, with the examples of waste economy either $1.61 under calcula- truly accept the responsibility given to and duplication. There is $100 billion tions done by JOHN MCCAIN’s economic us by the American people. Will we worth of fraud in Medicare that we can adviser, Mark Zandi, or CBO, the Con- gressional Budget Office, which said it truly accept it? How we act on it deter- document. So there are all sorts of things we can do. The question is, Do yields $1.90. mines our commitment to this coun- Some of the proposals we have seen we have the courage? Will we step to try. from the other side are to cut other I don’t disagree with those who just the line? Will we do what is best for jobs in order to pay for extending un- want to get it through and get people our children and the unemployed? That employment benefits. That is not going paid. They have a right to have that is the question. It is not that somebody to help us at this time. position. I am not demeaning that posi- doesn’t have compassion for the unem- So, yes, I remember the wonderful tion. I am just saying the country can’t ployed. feeling I had when we balanced the last if we keep doing it. Our kids don’t Mr. President, I yield the floor. Federal budget when Bill Clinton was have a future if we keep doing it. If we The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. President, when we created surpluses look at the budget projections for our FRANKEN). The Senator from Cali- as far as the eye could see. The debt country, we will run—even with the tax fornia. was on the way down. The minute the Mrs. BOXER. Thank you so much, increases that are coming at the end of Republicans took over, they put tax this year—we are going to run $1 tril- Mr. President. As Senator COBURN was cuts to the wealthiest on their credit lion deficits until 2020. talking about the need to balance the card. They put two wars on their credit Let me close with one final thought. budget, I was remembering that I voted card. Spend, spend, spend, spend, spend. We have a $4 trillion budget. We are to do that. With the leadership of Bill All that work we did was, unfortu- going to run a $1.6 trillion deficit this Clinton and the Democrats, we not nately, reversed. year. That means we are going to bor- only balanced the budget but we cre- What is before us today is a very sim- row that from our children. The deficit ated surpluses. It was a great feeling. ple proposition. My friend from Okla- by this time next year will be close to We did it, we know how to do it, and we homa says he cares deeply about the $14 trillion. will do it again. unemployed. I have no reason to doubt Have my colleagues ever thought Let’s talk about what is before us that. He should join us today in voting about what $1 trillion is? My colleague right now. It is not about the unem- to extend these benefits. Ronald from Georgia explained it to me. I ployed versus our children. Our long- Reagan saw it clearly. He extended didn’t believe him, so I did the math. term unemployed have children, and them three times as emergencies be- If we spend $1 a second, so that these children are seeing their dads and cause it is an emergency. He knew it means we spend $60 a minute, or $3,600 moms with their heads in their hands, was counterproductive to cut other an hour—$3,600 an hour, the wealthiest they see tears, and they don’t know jobs to pay for the extension of unem- in our country probably don’t spend why. I have letters from my constitu- ployment benefits. that, but let’s say we did—how long ents. They don’t know what to tell We know how to balance this budget. would it take us to spend $1 trillion? their kids. They are working so very Pay-go is a part of it. Pay-go: Pay for The answer is 31,709 years spending hard. everything you do except emergencies. $3,600 an hour before we ever get to $1 So let’s talk about what is before us That is what we should be doing be- trillion. We get $1 trillion deficits $30 today. We know how to get to the bal- cause to do otherwise is counter- billion, $40 billion at a time, which is anced budget. That is why we have productive. the cost of this bill. The way we start budgeting. That is why we have au- I am so grateful we are nearing the getting out of debt is to stop adding to thorizing. That is why we have appro- point where we can extend these bene- it. priations. That is why President fits. Yes, we have been delayed. We If we go back to February 12 when Obama has said he will cut the deficit have been delayed for 2 months. I read the law went into effect on pay-go, and in half at the end of his first term, and letters into the RECORD before. Here is we add this bill to it, we are going to I am confident that will be the case, one: be at $1⁄4 trillion since February 12 that and maybe we can even do more. We I have kept up a relentless job search. I this body will have added to our chil- know how to do that. have applied for at least 600 jobs. This is dis- dren’s deficit. It is not our debt. No- Hearing the Senator from Oklahoma couraging, not receiving any information body in this room and probably very say we are being partisan makes no back. Days go by when I hardly sleep at all few people listening to this debate are sense at all. I sang the praises of my worrying about the bills. We have had to Republican friends who have joined concentrate all of our income on paying the going to pay one penny against it. It is rent and buying gas. I can’t pay for other all going to be borne by the children with us in making sure we can extend bills. unemployment benefits today. I thank coming. Another Californian: So what is pay-go about? Pay-go is God for them, frankly. So this isn’t I am very scared of what might happen if about this, America: You pay and we about partisanship. It is about pulling I lose the unemployment income. We don’t will go spend. We are seeing evidence of together as a country and recognizing want to lose our home. My children catch me it today on the Senate floor. It is not that we are in the worst recession since crying at times and ask me: Why are you just that we pay; We pay, our children the Great Depression. It is no time for crying, Mom? I can’t tell them. Please pass pay, and our grandchildren pay. We are partisanship. It is time to pull together this bill until this economy strengthens. going to pay with real dollars, but our and help our kids and help our families So, again, this isn’t about the way grandchildren are going to pay with and help those who, through no fault of the Senator from Oklahoma phrases it.

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The different version tured about that because we are the all of his time to use attacks on those is—and this is the leadership of the Re- party that did it. We are the party that who do not share his version of eco- publican side that has been talking created the balanced budget. We are nomic policy and where our country about this all this week. Their version the party that created the surpluses, should go. Rather than making the ar- is, no, instead of helping families, plus 23 million jobs, and the other side, guments, he made the personal at- small businesses, and schools, we want unfortunately, didn’t take very long to tacks. to extend the Bush tax cuts to the turn that whole thing around. This He also said something that struck wealthiest Americans. That is the path economy went into a ditch, and we are me as right-on, which is that often out of this recession, say my colleagues working hard to get it out of that when people are using personal at- across the aisle. ditch. tacks, they are trying to camouflage There is a fundamental difference of So I wish to close with this: Let’s and only give half the story and trying economic strategy involved. What is take care of this emergency. It is going to set up a straw man. That is cer- striking to me is that we have a lot of to help our families. It is going to help tainly accurate. information about the strategy being our children. It is going to help our What is the real debate we are having proposed by my colleagues across the aisle because this was the Bush Presi- local communities when people can go on the floor? Well, on one side, there is dency strategy. We tried it. We found down and buy the gas at the local gas the argument—an argument I would out that when you give away the Na- station, buy the food at the local gro- weigh in favor of—that says we need to tional Treasury to the wealthiest cery store, and be able to be stable in put this economy back on track, put Americans, you drive this Nation into the community. Then let’s get back families to work, and that it is through debt. In fact, under the Bush adminis- immediately to working on bills that jobs for American families, and that we will restore the financial foundations tration, we doubled our national debt. are going to create jobs. Under the very idea and plan for not only of families but of our commu- The small business bill that the Sen- which my colleagues across the aisle nities and of our Nation as a whole. ator from Oregon has worked so hard are advocating, we drove this Nation’s There are certain key things we can on and the Senator from Louisiana has economy into the ground. To counter- do now to accomplish that. Those worked so hard on, and many of us act that, the Bush administration said: things include helping our school dis- have worked with them, that is a good Let’s deregulate the banks and Wall tricts create a bridge through this re- bill and it is 100 percent paid for. It Street and make everything move a cession so we don’t see thousands of even has a plus to it. It is going to cre- little faster, and maybe consumers will teachers being laid off. There is a pro- ate jobs through small business. Small spend a little more and banks will take vision to assist our school districts in business creates more than 60 percent more risk, and we will take away all the Defense supplemental bill we will of the jobs in this Nation. We have a the lane markers and the traffic sig- have in the Senate in the near future. chance to help those who are strug- nals in our financial system, and, by Second, we can assist families who gling. golly, somehow we will make this econ- are unemployed through no fault of So we need to get this bill behind us omy flourish. and go to the small business bill. We their own and help them create a Do you know what. They built a are going to need 60 votes. They are bridge through this recession. house of cards. It was a house of cards Third, we can help our small busi- filibustering that as well. So every- built on predatory mortgages and the nesses create jobs because there is a thing we do takes 60 votes. securitization of those mortgages, with If I read the list of supporters for the dysfunction right now in which our extraordinary leverage of up to 40 to 1 small business bill, it includes the community banks that best understand under that deregulation. That house of Chamber of Commerce, the regional Main Street are at their leverage lim- cards came down, and that house Chambers of Commerce, and businesses its and therefore cannot make addi- crashed on the American family, and and community banks. They want to tional loans. Indeed, the Chairman of that American family lost their sav- see this bill happen because our small the Federal Reserve was speaking to ings for retirement. Families in my businesses need access to credit. Our this challenge in the Capitol just an State lost their jobs, and the unem- very good small businesses are being hour ago—the systemic dysfunction in ployment rate is huge. The families turned away. I visited so many of which capital is hung up and unavail- lost the health care that went with them. They are thriving even in this able to our small businesses. It is our their jobs. Well, that is not a very pret- climate, but they need to expand and small businesses that, by utilizing that ty picture. But my colleagues, who they can’t get access to the capital. capital, can seize economic oppor- brought us that Bush economic night- So, please, let’s not see a filibuster tunity and put people back to work. It mare that crashed on the heads of the there as well. Please, let’s not see is a good strategy to enable those funds American families, are coming to this delay there as well. Let’s do this unem- to be available to small businesses and floor and saying: We want more of the ployment compensation, get the assist- help recapitalize community banks. It same. ance to the people who deserve it, makes money for the Treasury. The Earlier, my colleague across the aisle those who are actively seeking work, CBO estimated it will make $1 billion characterized that strategy as the who can’t find it through no fault of for the Treasury. It does it by enabling ‘‘tough’’ choice, while he characterized their own, and who paid into the unem- $300 billion in liquidity to small busi- the strategy of helping American fami- ployment compensation fund. Let’s get nesses. The CBO estimate of the funds lies and small businesses and schools as that behind us. That will help our com- that come back to the Treasury doesn’t an ‘‘easy’’ choice. Well, let’s try to set munities. Then let’s get to the small include the revenue created by families these pejoratives or characterizations business bill. It is a small business jobs who are put back to work and pay in- aside and just say that they are dif- bill. Let’s do the right thing. We can come taxes or by small businesses that ferent choices—one, the revival of the get this economy back on its feet, but are more successful and pay more in Bush strategy, which is something like we need to work together. business taxes. the summer sequel to a cheap horror Thank you very much, Mr. President. So it is a win-win. We create a path story that wrecks the economy of the I yield the floor. by supporting our States through funds United States. That strategy is sitting The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- for education, and we create a path as a potential idea and threat to our ator from Oregon is recognized. through this recession by helping fami- Nation. Mr. MERKLEY. Mr. President, dur- lies who are unemployed because the Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask, ing the debate, I had a chance to sit in economy is in such a mess. We create a through the Chair, if my friend will

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Mr. President, I ask unan- comes to our children—and I hate to and it will pass the Senate, I have imous consent that all postcloture see the abuse of this argument—sound felt—and I have talked about it for a time be considered expired, after the economic policy is the right thing. If month now—that there is a better way. use or yielding back of time specified we put families to work, those families I stand before you to propose an alter- in this agreement; that upon the expi- are far healthier, those families have a native that will be fully paid for by ration of time, amendment No. 4426 be foundation, they have a future, and using the bank account and not the withdrawn; that debate on the motions they recognize there is a horizon that credit card because rather than putting to suspend the rules with respect to is brighter. They recognize they will be the cost on that credit card and pass- H.R. 4213, and that the motions not be able to move forward to create oppor- ing it on to our children and grand- divisible, as specified here, be limited tunity for their children. That is the children, it is the great-grandchildren to 20 minutes each, with the time di- foundation of a successful family. But who are being affected as well. vided equally between the proponents giveaways to the wealthiest at the ex- Listen, we on this side of the aisle and the majority leader or his des- pense of helping families is wrong for want to help as well, and my colleagues ignee; that upon the expiration of all our children. If you don’t put people on the other side of the aisle do too. It time, the Senate proceed to vote on the back to work, you don’t create an eco- is not a partisan issue. I agree with the motions to suspend in the order in nomic revival, you don’t create reve- Senator who spoke before me. I agree which offered; that after the first vote nues in the Treasury, and therefore you with her. But no one is disputing the and prior to each succeeding vote in don’t create the ability to pay down value of these programs, not only what this sequence, there be 2 minutes of de- that debt. it means to the citizens of Massachu- bate equally divided as specified above, So do we want the Bush policy 2, the setts and across the country who are with succeeding votes limited to 10 nightmare that doubled our debt, or do having a difficult time, but our econ- minutes each; that upon disposition of we want the investment in families and omy, as we know, is slow. It is showing the motions, the motion to strike, education that we had under the Clin- signs every once in a while of recov- which is at the desk, be agreed to; no ton administration and that we have ering, but it is very slow. People out of further motions or amendments be in under the Obama administration, work need extra assistance while they order; that the pay-go statement from which will put money back into the search for that new employment. the Budget Committee be read into the Treasury? I think the choice is clear: What I want to debate is whether we RECORD, and without further inter- Let’s shore up small businesses and our continue our spending ways to add to vening action or debate, the Senate families, let’s shore up education, let’s the credit card, to the debt, versus proceed to vote on the motion to con- put this economy back on track, and finding ways to pay for it with the cur with amendment No. 4425, as let’s put people to work, and in so money we have. I can tell my col- amended; further, that the motions to doing we will address and resolve the leagues as the ranking member on the suspend be those which appear on pages issue of the deficit. contracting subcommittee, looking at S6034 and S6035 of the CONGRESSIONAL The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- the amount of waste in Federal Gov- RECORD of July 20: two Coburn mo- ator from Massachusetts is recognized. ernment, we can find a way to pay for tions, the Brown motion, and two Mr. BROWN of Massachusetts. Mr. this program by using the bank ac- DeMint motions. President, I enjoyed the prior speeches. count, not the credit card. I also ask that my friend from Or- I don’t necessarily agree with them, I am flabbergasted as to why we do egon now have whatever time nec- but I enjoyed them. There is plenty of not think outside the box. Some of the essary to complete his statement. How blame to go around. We can go back to speakers before me said the Repub- much time does he need? the fact that the majority party has licans are doing this; the Republicans Mr. MERKLEY. Five minutes. been in charge for 4 years and Presi- are doing that. With all due respect, I Mr. REID. I ask that my request be dent Bush is no longer in charge, so have made many efforts to work across amended in that regard. saying Bush this and Bush that—that party lines, as you know, Mr. Presi- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there gets old. We need to focus on problem- dent, and as the other Members do too. objection? solving today. Bipartisanship is a two-way street. You Without objection, it is so ordered. One of the prior speakers mentioned cannot tell me we also do not have Mr. REID. Mr. President, for every- that it takes 60 votes for cloture to good ways and good ideas to finance, to one’s information, we should be able to move things forward. Sometimes you find ways to solve these problems. proceed through these pretty quickly. have those 60 votes. Other times, there The American people have made it It is likely—and this doesn’t take away are going to be 41. There are going to very clear they want elected Rep- from the statements to be made by my be 41 when you try to overspend, over- resentatives in Congress to start pay- friends on the other side, and we may tax, and overregulate and, I feel, make ing for the initiatives we are trying to not use much of our time—that we can it so businesses cannot move forward push without raising taxes and start move these along fairly quickly. There to create those jobs that were just ref- exercising the type of fiscal restraint will be five votes, and, as indicated in erenced and that we need to start to they use in their own homes and that the consent agreement, the first will be focus on. they use in their businesses. the regular time, and after that there Since I have been here, with all due Last month’s vote on larger tax ex- will be 10 minutes on the final four. respect, we haven’t done much on jobs tenders legislation raised taxes by al- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- at all. That is frustrating not only for most $60 billion and increased the def- ator from Oregon is recognized. me but for the American people and icit by $33 billion. It was defeated, and Mr. MERKLEY. Mr. President, I note the people of Massachusetts. I feel rightly so. Congress must start that there are a couple of issues raised I am standing before you today to listening to the American people. They that really are false issues. One is in once again consider legislation to ex- are telling us they are tired of the regard to the debt. My colleagues tend the unemployment benefits, and overspending, the overtaxation, the in- across the aisle are proposing a mas- once again this legislation, as we creasing debt, the overregulation, and sive increase of the debt by extending know, will add approximately $30 bil- the involvement in their lives. They the Bush tax cuts, and they are saying lion to our Nation’s debt, which is cur- just want to be left alone and be able that helping those who are unemployed rently $13 trillion and rising. To put to go to work, pay the bills, take the through no fault of their own is an in- that into perspective, I have been here kids out to a movie, pay for their mort- crease to the debt. This is coming from about 6 months, and I remember that gages, pay for school, and they do not the same folks who brought us the when I first got here, the debt calcu- want to have this constant reaching

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We the purpose of proposing and consid- keeping current tax rates the same. can find a funding source without add- ering my motion to commit with in- A few weeks ago, I offered an amend- ing to the credit card, to that debt we structions with respect to H.R. 4213, ment that would at least keep capital all know about and is rising uncontrol- which is at the desk. gains and dividend taxes the same lably. We cannot keep spending like we The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without rather than allow them to go up—divi- are doing. I know it and many people objection the motion is pending. dend taxes to nearly 40 percent and in America know it. MOTION TO SUSPEND capital gains from 15 percent to 20 per- This is not the first time Republicans Mr. COBURN. Mr. President, I move cent. Many senior citizens count on have come to the floor to offer a path to suspend provisions of rule XXII, in- dividends, as well as cashing in their forward on emergency unemployment cluding germaneness requirements, for retirement savings. Capital gains and insurance that is paid for. We tried the purpose of proposing and consid- dividend taxes have a huge impact on four times already to do just that, and ering my amendment No. 4493. our senior citizens as well as millions each and every time it has been op- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without of other Americans. Unfortunately, the posed. objection, the motion is pending. majority voted this amendment down As I said, my amendment pays for Mr. COBURN. I yield the floor. and voted effectively to raise these the cost of extending unemployment The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- taxes on Americans. insurance by rescinding unobligated ator from South Carolina. Income taxes will go up. But today I stimulus funds and cutting other stim- Mr. DEMINT. Mr. President, I agree want to focus on what I think is prob- ulus funds that are estimated not to be with my colleague from Massachusetts. ably the most immoral tax that we im- used for years. We have already heard The blame game has gone on long pose on people from the Federal level, the stories about the waste and the enough. There is certainly enough and that is the death tax. fluff. Let’s get the money out the door blame to go around. But I need to re- This year, the death tax is gone, the right now. Let’s put it to work right mind the majority that they have been first year since the early 1900s. Ameri- now. in control of Congress for 4 years. cans who work and save, start busi- If this is an emergency as is being Presidents do not write economic pol- nesses, start farms, their heirs do not said, then let’s get the money that is icy, spend money, or add to the debt. have to sell their property in order to not being used out the door right now. Congress does. The Democratic Party pay the death tax. The Heritage Foundation says if we My amendment reduces the deficit by has been in control of both Houses allow the death tax to go back up to 55 $7 billion instead of increasing it by $34 since 2006. percent, it will cost Americans over 1.5 billion, as the present legislation that When the Democrats took control, million jobs because this is not just for is being proposed will do. unemployment was below 5 percent, the people who pay the death tax, it is Yes, my amendment is about hard the economy was growing, and the debt for the people who work in the busi- choices. Recently, the Governors of was half of what it is today. Certainly nesses and the farms that are often liq- both parties expressed concerns about looking at the projected debt of this uidated or at least sold in part to pay how the stimulus funds have been administration, we are looking at tri- spent and whether the true impact is this heavy tax. pling the national debt over the next What right does the government have accurate. States have also weighed in decade. to take someone’s property because asking Congress for extended unem- It is time for us to focus on solving they die? They have paid taxes on the ployment benefits and additional problems rather than trying to wax el- property and on the income throughout FMAP funding. I believe we have a oquent about a President who effec- their entire lives, and many times they clear choice where we can offset the tively did not write economic policy paid a very high tax rate if they amount of money we have and get it for over 4 years. worked hard and made a good living. out the door, not using it as a Wash- It is important today that we are ex- What right do we have when they die ington, DC, slush fund, as it is looked tending unemployment benefits. But it to take that property? Why should the at in America. is curious to a lot of us when the ma- government get a bigger inheritance The amendment I am offering today jority has often said unemployment from someone dying than their family? represents another compromise—lis- compensation is one of the most impor- That is what is going to happen if we tening to the concerns of so many tant forms of stimulus, that when Re- allow the majority to continue with Americans and their calls to extend publicans ask that we pay for the ex- their plans to allow the death tax to go emergency unemployment insurance tension of unemployment benefits with up. This will cost lots of jobs, break up specifically but also not burdening fu- unspent stimulus money, there appears many family businesses and family ture generations and making sure we to be outrage. Instead, there is a strong farms, and cost, as I said, 1.5 million can actually pay for things, truly pay consensus on the Democratic side that jobs. It makes absolutely no sense at for things. we not pay for this; we just add it to all. As I mentioned earlier, I have been in the national debt. I am going to offer an amendment Washington for a little over 6 months I, frankly, do not think we can help today to keep current tax rates the now. Sometimes, as you might know, people for a few months by bank- same for the death tax which was Mr. President, it seems like 6 years. rupting our country. We know our debt eliminated this year. You have followed my voting record, as is unsustainable. To bring up bill after Another amendment I am going to I said. When I see a good bill, regard- bill that we are not even willing to offer relates to the Arizona immigra- less of party, I will support it, no ques- talk about how we pay for is disturbing tion law. I took the time to read the tions asked. Once again, it is a two- to millions of Americans right now. immigration law that Arizona passed way street. Bipartisanship is a two-way I certainly support my colleague and found that much of what has been street. It needs to come both ways. from Massachusetts, as well as my col- reported in the media is completely MOTION TO SUSPEND league from Oklahoma, who are pre- false. I was actually stunned as I read In closing, I move to suspend rule senting amendments today, reasonable, through it how often it refers to just XXII, paragraph 2, for the purpose of commonsense ways that we can pay for the enforcement of existing Federal proposing and considering my amend- the unemployment benefits extension law. There is nothing in it about racial ment No. 4492. so that helping people today does not profiling, except that we cannot do it, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The mo- diminish the quality of life of millions and we cannot stop someone if we sus- tion is pending. of Americans tomorrow. pect them of being illegal. We can only

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Why? ministration is suing Arizona for en- They say: We are going to make our Because the last stand on deficits is to forcing Federal law while ignoring last stand here on this deficit with re- take place with respect to restricting many sanctuary cities that openly spect to those who are out of work and the ability of those who are out of flaunt their resistance to Federal law. who need extension of unemployment work from getting the funds to extend It makes no sense in a free country, in benefits. We were quick to give help to their unemployment benefits. That is a democracy where we are built on the the wealthiest Americans, to the big- the last stand. rule of law, for the Federal Govern- gest investment banks that needed Did my colleagues make that last ment to try to intimidate the people of help. We gave hundreds of billions of stand with regard to the big invest- Arizona who are only trying to protect dollars to those interests at the top of ment banks that ran into trouble? No, themselves. the economic ladder, who nearly ran not at all. They rushed that aid in on As many Americans know, Arizona the country right into the ditch. But a pillow. Can we help you? How much waited for years for the Federal Gov- those at the bottom of the ladder, who do you need? But now that it is the ernment to do its job, to secure the are out of work, who are unemployed, folks at the bottom of the ladder, all of borders, and to protect the people from and who are having trouble, that is a sudden we don’t have the capability. the drug trafficking, the human traf- where they say they are making their Some of my colleagues just com- ficking, and the people who come last stand on deficits. plained about speakers who wanted to across and who have murdered the citi- So let me try to understand this with talk about the past. You know, if you zens there. a review. We are told the deficit is too don’t understand the past, you are des- Many States are suffering the same high; that we cannot give help to the tined to repeat it. I understand that fate of a Federal Government that has unemployed in the manner we used to neither side is much of a bargain—Re- failed to secure our borders and to pro- give help to the unemployed. We al- publicans and Democrats. This country tect our people. ways did that when there was an eco- deserves more from both sides. I under- The amendment I am offering today nomic downturn. We have always done stand that. But I also understand what is going to disallow any funding to be that. But, oh, by the way, what we has caused this problem. I was on the used by the Federal Government to need to do is to repeal the estate tax floor of the Senate in February of 2001. carry out this lawsuit against Arizona. for the wealthiest individuals in Amer- By the way, when President Clinton This is something we know, if the ica. I don’t know. I took mathematics left office 2 months prior to that we American people could vote today, in a high school senior class of nine had the first budget surplus in 30 they would vote in favor of. The ques- students, and I passed it at least. I can years—over $200 billion in surplus. tion is, Will the majority vote to sup- understand how things add up now and President Bush said: You know, we port the people of Arizona or to sup- then. But I don’t know how that adds have these projected surpluses now for port this political move that we are up at all. 10 years. Let’s get rid of them. Let’s now seeing from the White House to at- There are those coming to the floor give big tax cuts, with the biggest by tempt to intimidate the people of Ari- of the Senate and having great apo- far going to the wealthiest Americans. zona? plexy about giving help to the unem- I stood on the floor and said: Let’s be I can say proudly that the people of ployed. By the way, some have even a little conservative. What if some- Arizona are not going to be intimi- said: You give help to the unemployed, thing happens? They said: You know dated by this government. If we can it just discourages them from work. what, we are going to give these tax provide some help today, that is cer- Well, you know something, a guy told cuts, and the biggest cuts are going to tainly what I intend to do. me the other day about a young third the wealthiest Americans. If you made Mr. President, I wish to offer a cou- grader who was asked in his school—it $1 million a year, that bill gave you, I ple of motions. was going to be his birthday—what he think, $80,000 a year in tax cuts. So ev- MOTION TO SUSPEND would like for his birthday; what kind eryone on that side voted for it. Abso- In accordance with rule V of the of birthday present he would like. This lutely. Happy to vote for it, to reduce Standing Rules of the Senate, I move little third grader said: A flashlight. this country’s income. What happened? to suspend rule XXII for the purpose of The guy said: A flashlight? He said: Very quickly, we ran into a recession. proposing and considering a motion to Yes, so I can read at night. They Then we had a terrorist attack against commit with regard to the estate tax, turned off our electricity. our country on 9/11. Then we were at which is at the desk. How many in this room would even war in Afghanistan, then at war in The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without understand having your electricity Iraq, and this Congress appropriated objection, the motion is pending. turned off and having a third grade son massive amounts of money as it sent MOTION TO SUSPEND who can’t read at night because there young men and women to war and did Mr. DEMINT. Mr. President, accord- are no lights and asking for a flash- not pay for one penny of it—not a ing to rule V of the standing rules of light as a gift? There is nobody in here penny. All of it went right onto the the Senate, I move to suspend rule who is unemployed—not one person in debt. XXII for the purpose of proposing and this room. This is a roomful of people Those who cry the loudest on the considering a motion to commit with who take their showers in the morning, floor of the Senate these days, right regard to the Arizona immigration law, not at night. They get up and put on a now, are the very ones who voted to re- which is at the desk. blue suit, a pressed white shirt and a duce this country’s income with the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without tie and come to work—all fully em- biggest benefits going to the wealthiest objection, the motion is pending. ployed—and we talk about the unem- Americans. Yet now they come to us Mr. DEMINT. Mr. President, I yield ployed. and say: Well, you know, now we are the floor. We are short 20 million jobs in this making our last stand for the unem- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- country. There are millions of people ployed—to prevent the unemployed ator from North Dakota. out of work. Five million manufac- from getting what they should get. By Mr. DORGAN. Mr. President, my turing employees alone have lost their the way, while we are on the floor, high school English teacher always jobs in the last 9 years. As we ran into they say: Why can’t we repeal the es- used to say: All right, let’s review this deepest recession since the Great tate tax that will help the wealthiest things. So let’s review things just for a Depression, a whole lot of folks—yes, Americans? moment. at the lower end of the economic ladder Let me mention the estate tax for a I have listened to some of this debate and in middle-income areas—have lost moment. First of all, my colleague said in the Senate today, and as best as I their jobs and can’t find another job. death tax. He knows, and I know, there can tell, we have people standing, say- When they worked, from their pay- is no such thing as a death tax. If my ing the deficit is a bad thing. I think checks they paid a small premium for colleague should die, his estate is not

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The second say that one of the biggest problems in us voted against. portion of how we got here is about 10 the country is the death tax, when no By the way, that turns out to have years ago we passed what was then such tax exists. What an unbelievable been just fundamentally goofy. They called financial reform. I voted against spoof. Death tax my eye. We have a tax created estate tax relief that goes that as well. That said to the biggest on inherited wealth and the only peo- down, down, down, and down to zero in financial institutions in this country: ple who have been paying it are the this year and then springs way back up Katy bar the door. Do whatever you people at the upper income levels. 1 in 2011. We didn’t do that. That wasn’t want. We will not watch. We are taking We have had a $3 ⁄2 million-a-year ex- 1 us. That was the other side. Now what away the protections that existed since emption for the husband, and a $3 ⁄2 they say is that they would like to re- the Great Depression. We will not look million exemption for the wife. That peal the estate tax altogether because and we will not care. was last year’s exemption. That means they think it is a tax on death. It is As a result, we saw in recent years you don’t pay a penny unless you have not. It is a tax on inherited wealth and unbelievable speculation and gambling. $7 million clear, husband and wife. How they know that. It was not business, it was just flatout many families have that? But that is But this year, because there is zero gambling. We saw the creation of ex- not enough, my colleagues say. In the estate tax, about four billionaires have otic instruments—CDOs, derivatives, middle of all this economic trouble we died and not one penny of their estate credit default swaps, naked credit de- face, in the middle of wars and a near will be taxed and most of their estates fault swaps, and the like—and we saw economic collapse, what is their pri- were never taxed. They were growth unbelievable, rampant gaming going on ority? Get rid of the so-called death tax, which doesn’t exist, or perhaps I appreciation of stocks and various as- as opposed to thoughtful investing in can rephrase it for them: Get rid of the sets never subject to a tax. Most people this country’s future. As a result, this tax on inherited wealth for the have an income and it is subject to a country nearly had an economic col- tax. They help send kids to school with wealthiest of Americans. lapse. These are billionaires’ best friends, I that tax, pay to build roads, pay for po- It is important for us to understand guess. I have nothing against billion- lice, pay for defense. But that runup in how that happened because we had reg- aires. I guess I wish I was one. But tax for the billionaires or that runup in ulators come to town who were sup- when billionaires die, they, I think, income, I should say, has never borne a posed to regulate, and they boasted ought to expect to be able to con- tax to support anything. My colleagues about being business friendly: Don’t tribute something to this country. It is say: You know what, I want to make worry, we will not look. There is a new unbelievable to me. I hope people have sure it doesn’t ever bear a tax. Let’s sheriff in town and this sheriff doesn’t listened to this discussion today and have the little folks pay a tax. Let’s have a weapon. So don’t worry about understand that their priority is to have the rest of the folks pay a tax but it. Then we saw a decade go by in eliminate the estate tax, the tax on in- not the people at the top. which this country’s economy nearly herited wealth, which would only apply What an unbelievable irony that on collapsed. So that is how we got where to the wealthiest Americans. It is un- the very day that we have people we are. It is important for people to believable to me. digging in the heels of their cowboy understand that. I have seen other unbelievable boots and saying we are making our They say: Let’s not review the past, things, some of which have led to this last stand to prevent the unemployed but let me review one final point. When current economic trouble. I hope per- from getting unemployment compensa- President Obama walked through the haps in calmer times and perhaps more tion they deserve—on the very day that White House door, had he gone to sleep sober times we can discuss the best of they say we can’t do that—they come for 12 months, had he done nothing at what both parties have to offer this to the floor of the Senate saying: But all, he would have had a $1.3 trillion country because I think both parties do what we have to do as a priority is to budget deficit because that is what the make a contribution. relieve the richest Americans, the previous President left him—$1.3 tril- We cannot wait much longer. This is wealthiest Americans, of the obliga- lion on autopilot. not something we can delay, it is not tion to pay estate tax. If there is any Having said all that, let me say this. something we can decide to postpone. narrative that tells the American peo- This deficit, in my judgment, is This country is in trouble. We have a ple whose side they are on, this little unsustainable. It cannot continue. We deep Federal budget deficit. It comes vignette describes it completely, in my have to diffuse it. This is a timebomb from the steepest decline in the econ- judgment. that will destroy this country’s econ- omy since the 1930s. As a result of that Let me mention that the reason it is omy inevitably at some point. We can’t decline, we have victims at the bottom important to understand how we got to have a government the size and cost of of this economic ladder who have not this point is, we will never get out of it which is such that the American people had work, in some cases for 2 years. unless we understand that. A lot of my are either unable or unwilling to pay They wake up in the morning feeling colleagues have been perfectly content for it. You can’t do that. So we have to helpless and hopeless, wondering, How for most of the decade standing on this fix it, and we have to fix it together. on Earth can I find a job? What do I floor deciding that we will ship men But if we don’t learn from what hap- tell my family today? and women to Iraq and Afghanistan to pened, if we don’t understand the past This Congress, in my judgment, fight, but we will not pay for the cost decade of what happened—going from a ought to at least pay as much atten- of a penny of it. They have been per- $200 billion-a-year budget surplus to tion to those folks at the bottom of the fectly content to do that. I have come the largest deficits in history and to a economic ladder as it has paid in the to the floor of the Senate to say: You near economic collapse—we are des- last 2 years to the interests at the top know what, sacrifice works a number tined to repeat it. of the economic ladder. We shoveled of ways in this country. If we are going Again, it seems to me that everybody hundreds of billions of dollars toward to ask young men and women to sac- here are people of good faith. I don’t those at the top—the most comfortable rifice their lives, to go 12,000 miles come here suggesting that there are pillows to make them rest, the medi- away and strap on body armor in the people of bad faith here, but there are cine to calm their nerves. But when it morning and risk their lives by going some people with bad judgment here, comes to the people at the bottom, Will in harm’s way, perhaps we could ask for sure. All you have to do is look at Rogers had it best. Here is what Will the American people to provide the the record. Those who say: Let’s don’t Rogers said 80 years ago and it applies money to pay for it. look at the record, I guess they do not today in this Chamber. Will Rogers I have proposed that in the Senate. want the record to be understood. I said: ‘‘The unemployed here ain’t eat- President Bush, at one point, said: You think the only way we get out of this ing regular but we’ll get around to

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I ask for the yeas and and this Congress, this Senate ought to The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a care about that. It is part of our re- nays. sufficient second? The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sponsibility. Then let’s get about the There is a sufficient second. sufficient second? business of having a real debate, a The clerk will call the roll. There appears to be a sufficient sec- thoughtful rather than thoughtless de- The legislative clerk called the roll. ond. bate about all of the issues that affect Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the The clerk will call the roll. us, such as spending and taxing, and Senator from Indiana (Mr. BAYH) is The assistant legislative clerk called let’s use real terms, not things like necessarily absent. the roll. ‘‘death taxes’’ that come from a poll- Mr. KYL. The following Senator is Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the ster who decides they want to fool peo- necessarily absent: the Senator from Senator from Indiana (Mr. BAYH) is ple. Let’s use real terms in serious dis- Louisiana (Mr. VITTER). necessarily absent. cussions between adults and try to fig- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there Mr. KYL. The following Senator is ure out how we fix what is wrong with any other Senators in the Chamber de- necessarily absent: the Senator from this country to put this country back siring to vote? Louisiana (Mr. VITTER). on track. The yeas and nays resulted—yeas 42, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there This country deserves better. It is nays 56, as follows: any other Senators in the Chamber de- the first generation of Americans, I [Rollcall Vote No. 210 Leg.] siring to vote? think, that believes its kids are not YEAS—42 The yeas and nays resulted—yeas 49, going to do as well as they did. We Alexander Crapo Lincoln nays 49, as follows: have to change that. This country has Barrasso DeMint Lugar [Rollcall Vote No. 211 Leg.] a lot to offer with a good future if we Bennett Ensign McCain YEAS—49 make some good decisions going for- Bond Enzi McConnell Brown (MA) Graham Murkowski Alexander Enzi McConnell ward. Brownback Grassley Nelson (NE) Barrasso Feingold Murkowski Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, for weeks Bunning Gregg Risch Bennett Graham Nelson (NE) we have sought to continue extended Burr Hatch Roberts Bond Grassley Nelson (FL) Brown (MA) Gregg emergency unemployment benefits. We Chambliss Hutchison Sessions Pryor Coburn Inhofe Shelby Brownback Hagan Risch must do this because, while our eco- Cochran Isakson Snowe Bunning Hatch Roberts nomic recovery has begun, it has a long Collins Johanns Thune Burr Hutchison Sessions Chambliss Inhofe Corker Kyl Voinovich Shelby way to go. Our economy is not yet gen- Coburn Isakson Cornyn LeMieux Wicker Snowe erating enough jobs to put people back Cochran Johanns Tester to work who are searching for work. NAYS—56 Collins Klobuchar Corker Kyl Thune The repercussions of the worst finan- Akaka Gillibrand Murray Cornyn LeMieux Voinovich Baucus Goodwin Nelson (FL) cial crisis in generations are still felt Crapo Lincoln Webb Begich Hagan Pryor DeMint Lugar Wicker across our country. Bennet Harkin Reed Ensign McCain And so to help Americans who have Bingaman Inouye Reid lost their jobs through no fault of their Boxer Johnson Rockefeller NAYS—49 Brown (OH) Kaufman own, we have sought to continue these Sanders Akaka Franken Mikulski Burris Kerry Schumer extended unemployment benefits. We Cantwell Klobuchar Baucus Gillibrand Murray Shaheen have met opposition and delay. Yester- Cardin Kohl Begich Goodwin Reed Specter Carper Landrieu Bennet Harkin Reid day, we finally broke through the Re- Stabenow Casey Lautenberg Bingaman Inouye Rockefeller publican filibuster that was the source Conrad Leahy Tester Boxer Johnson Sanders of that delay. Dodd Levin Udall (CO) Brown (OH) Kaufman Schumer Now we have a chance to do what we Dorgan Lieberman Udall (NM) Burris Kerry Shaheen Cantwell Kohl Durbin McCaskill Warner Specter should have done weeks ago. In State Cardin Landrieu Feingold Menendez Webb Stabenow after State, thousands of people await Carper Lautenberg Feinstein Merkley Whitehouse Udall (CO) our decision, including more than Franken Mikulski Wyden Casey Leahy Conrad Levin Udall (NM) 70,000 in my State. We cannot give NOT VOTING—2 Dodd Lieberman Warner them back the weeks of anxiety our Dorgan McCaskill Whitehouse Bayh Vitter delays have caused. But we can act Durbin Menendez Wyden today. I urge my colleagues to support The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this Feinstein Merkley this measure and give struggling Amer- vote the yeas are 42, the nays are 56. NOT VOTING—2 ican families the help they need and Two-thirds of the Senators voting, a Bayh Vitter deserve. quorum being present, not having The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this Mr. DORGAN. I suggest the absence voted in the affirmative, the motion is vote, the yeas are 49, the nays are 49. of a quorum. rejected. Two-thirds of the Senators voting, a There is now 2 minutes equally di- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The quorum being present, not having vided before a vote with respect to the clerk will call the roll. voted in the affirmative, the motion is first Coburn motion. The legislative clerk proceeded to rejected. call the roll. The Senator from Oklahoma. There is now 2 minutes evenly di- Mr. DORGAN. Mr. President, I ask Mr. COBURN. Mr. President, this is a vided before a vote pertaining to the unanimous consent that the order for very straightforward amendment. It is next Coburn motion. the quorum call be rescinded. a re-vote where we voted 100 to 0 to Is all time yielded back? The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without make sure we are transparent with the Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, I ask for objection, it is so ordered. American people about when we change the yeas and nays. Mr. DORGAN. Mr. President, my un- and go around pay-go. All it does is The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a derstanding is that all time has now create a Web site so the American peo- sufficient second? been used. ple can see when we have done that and There appears to be a sufficient sec- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under how often and what the total amount ond. the previous order, all postcloture time is. We voted 100 to nothing for it the If all time is yielded back, the ques- is yielded back. last time it was presented to this body. tion is on agreeing to the motion.

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Mr. President, this is Specter Carper Landrieu The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there an absurd amendment. This amend- Stabenow any other Senators in the Chamber de- Casey Lautenberg ment would provide $1 trillion in tax Collins Leahy Tester siring to vote? breaks to the top three-tenths of 1 per- Conrad Levin Udall (CO) The yeas and nays resulted—yeas 54, cent, and 99.7 percent of the American Dodd Lieberman Udall (NM) nays 44, as follows: Dorgan McCaskill Voinovich people do not get a nickel. Despite all Durbin Menendez Warner [Rollcall Vote No. 212 Leg.] the rhetoric we hear around here about Feingold Merkley Webb YEAS—54 fiscal responsibility, this isn’t paid for. Feinstein Mikulski Whitehouse Franken Murray Wyden Alexander Enzi McConnell It is another $1 trillion over 10 years to Barrasso Feingold Murkowski our national debt. NOT VOTING—2 Bennett Graham Murray Bayh Vitter Bond Grassley Nelson (NE) I yield to the Senator from Michigan. Brown (MA) Gregg Nelson (FL) The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this Brownback Hagan Pryor ator from Michigan. vote, the yeas are 39, the nays are 59. Bunning Hatch Risch Burr Hutchison Roberts Ms. STABENOW. Mr. President, I Two-thirds of the Senators voting, a Cantwell Inhofe Sessions wish to thank our colleague from quorum being present, not having Chambliss Isakson Shelby South Carolina for giving us the oppor- voted in the affirmative, the motion is Coburn Johanns Snowe Cochran Klobuchar Tester tunity tonight to decide whose side we rejected. Collins Kyl Thune are really on. We are talking about up- There will be 2 minutes equally di- Corker LeMieux Voinovich ward of $1 trillion in spending to help a vided prior to a vote with respect to Cornyn Lincoln Warner few hundred of our wealthiest Ameri- the second DeMint motion. Crapo Lugar Webb DeMint McCain Wicker cans. We would not be helping small The Senator from South Carolina. Ensign McCaskill Wyden businesses or family farmers, all of Mr. DEMINT. Mr. President, this NAYS—44 whom we support helping, but the amendment disallows any use of tax- wealthiest Americans—close to $1 tril- Akaka Feinstein Menendez payer money to fund the lawsuit Baucus Franken Merkley lion—or helping 2.5 million people who against Arizona for its immigration Begich Gillibrand Mikulski lost their jobs, are out of work through policy. Bennet Goodwin Reed no fault of their own. I hope all my colleagues have taken Bingaman Harkin Reid The crash on Wall Street, the crisis the time to read this bill because what Boxer Inouye Rockefeller Brown (OH) Johnson Sanders on Wall Street, which, unfortunately, has been reported on it, in most cases, Burris Kaufman Schumer colleagues chose not to vote to repair is false. Cardin Kerry Shaheen Carper Kohl and to fix, has caused a situation where This bill is very clear. Its intent is to Specter Casey Landrieu families are hurting. support and enforce the Federal law to Stabenow Conrad Lautenberg protect the citizens of Arizona. Our Udall (CO) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Dodd Leahy Federal Government should be doing Dorgan Levin Udall (NM) WHITEHOUSE). The Senator’s time has Durbin Lieberman Whitehouse expired. its job to secure our borders rather than trying to bully and intimidate the NOT VOTING—2 Mr. DEMINT. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays. people of Arizona. We should not be Bayh Vitter The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a suing and hassling the people of Ari- The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this sufficient second? zona for doing what we should be doing vote, the yeas are 54, the nays are 44. here, and that is protecting the citi- There is a sufficient second. Two-thirds of the Senators voting, a zenry. The question is on agreeing to the quorum being present, not having I encourage all my colleagues to sup- motion. voted in the affirmative, the motion is port this amendment to disallow any rejected. The clerk will call the roll. funding for this lawsuit. There will now be 2 minutes evenly The legislative clerk called the roll. I reserve the remainder of my time. divided prior to a vote with respect to Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Who the DeMint motion. Senator from Indiana (Mr. BAYH) is yields time in opposition? The Senator from South Carolina. necessarily absent. Mr. DEMINT. Mr. President, I ask for Mr. DEMINT. Mr. President, this Mr. KYL. The following Senator is the yeas and nays. year is the first time in many decades necessarily absent: the Senator from The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a that death in America is not a taxable Louisiana (Mr. VITTER). sufficient second? event. For the first time in many, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there There appears to be a sufficient sec- many years, folks who worked hard any other Senators in the Chamber de- ond. and built businesses, built farms, do siring to vote? Is all time yielded back? not lose what they have worked for The result was announced—yeas 39, All time appears yielded back. when they die. nays 59, as follows: The question is on agreeing to the The Heritage Foundation estimates [Rollcall Vote No. 213 Leg.] motion. that if we do nothing as a Senate and The clerk will call the roll. allow the death tax to go from zero to YEAS—39 The assistant legislative clerk called 55 percent, America will lose 1.5 mil- Alexander Crapo LeMieux the roll. Barrasso DeMint Lincoln lion jobs because when we take the Bennett Ensign Lugar Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the money and the property of the people Bond Enzi McCain Senator from Indiana (Mr. BAYH) is who are working and running busi- Brown (MA) Graham McConnell necessarily absent. Brownback Grassley Murkowski nesses and farms, it not only affects Bunning Gregg Nelson (NE) Mr. KYL. The following Senator is the families of those who die but those Burr Hatch Risch necessarily absent: the Senator from who work for those businesses and Chambliss Hutchison Roberts Louisiana (Mr. VITTER). work on those farms. Coburn Inhofe Sessions The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there Cochran Isakson Shelby It is immoral for us to take what Corker Johanns Thune any other Senators in the Chamber de- people work for throughout their lives. Cornyn Kyl Wicker siring to vote?

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2010– 2010– 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2015 2020

Net Increase in the Deficit Total Changes ...... 8,545 24,684 218 214 148 76 56 2 0 0 0 33,885 33,943 Less: Designated as Emergency Requirements 1 ...... 8,545 24,684 218 214 148 76 56 2 0 0 0 33,885 33,943 Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Impact ...... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Memorandum—Components of the Emergency Designations Change in Outlays ...... 8,545 24,495 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 33,040 33,040 Changes in Revenues 2 ...... 0 ¥189 ¥218 ¥214 ¥148 ¥76 ¥56 ¥2 0 0 0 ¥845 ¥903 Note: Components may not sum to totals because of rounding. 1 The bill would designate Sections 2 and 3 as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 4(g) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010. 2 Negative numbers represent a DECREASE in revenues. Source: Congressional Budget Office.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The McCaskill Reid Tester The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without question is on agreeing to the motion Menendez Rockefeller Udall (CO) objection, it is so ordered. Merkley Sanders Udall (NM) to concur in the House amendment to Mikulski Schumer Warner Ms. LANDRIEU. I ask unanimous the Senate amendment to H.R. 4213, Murray Shaheen Webb consent to speak for up to 15 minutes with amendment No. 4425, as amended. Nelson (FL) Snowe Whitehouse as in morning business. I may ask to Pryor Specter Wyden Mr. NELSON of Nebraska. I ask for Reed Stabenow extend my time. the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a NAYS—39 objection, it is so ordered. sufficient second? Alexander Crapo LeMieux Barrasso DeMint Lugar f There appears to be a sufficient sec- Bennett Ensign McCain SMALL BUSINESS LENDING ond. Bond Enzi McConnell The clerk will call the roll. Brown (MA) Graham Murkowski Ms. LANDRIEU. I am just to speak Brownback Grassley Nelson (NE) for 1 minute now and turn it over to The legislative clerk called the roll. Bunning Gregg Risch Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Burr Hatch Roberts the good Senator from Oregon, who Senator from Indiana (Mr. BAYH) is Chambliss Hutchison Sessions will speak for a few minutes on this necessarily absent. Coburn Inhofe Shelby subject, and then the Senator from Cochran Isakson Thune Mr. KYL. The following Senator is Corker Johanns Voinovich Washington State, as we wait for the necessarily absent: the Senator from Cornyn Kyl Wicker underlying paperwork that is going to support this effort to appear. We Louisiana (Mr. VITTER). NOT VOTING—2 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there thought we would not let this time be Bayh Vitter any other Senators in the Chamber de- wasted. siring to vote? The motion was agreed to. We have just finished a very impor- The result was announced—yeas 59, Ms. CANTWELL. Mr. President, I tant vote on unemployment compensa- nays 39, as follows: move to reconsider that vote and lay tion that is going to extend benefits for [Rollcall Vote No. 215 Leg.] that motion upon the table. 15 million Americans who are out of YEAS—59 The motion to lay upon the table was work. It was a very tough negotiation, agreed to. but we got it done. Now we move on to Akaka Collins Inouye Baucus Conrad Johnson Ms. CANTWELL. Mr. President, I another very important issue, to try to Begich Dodd Kaufman suggest the absence of a quorum. help build our way, find our way, out of Bennet Dorgan Kerry The PRESIDING OFFICER. The this very difficult economic time in Bingaman Durbin Klobuchar Boxer Feingold Kohl clerk will call the roll. our country. Brown (OH) Feinstein Landrieu The assistant legislative clerk pro- The Democratic leadership, occasion- Burris Franken Lautenberg ceeded to call the roll. ally with a few Members from the Cantwell Gillibrand Leahy Ms. LANDRIEU. I ask unanimous other party, have passed some very Cardin Goodwin Levin Carper Hagan Lieberman consent that the order for the quorum tough but important votes to make Casey Harkin Lincoln call be rescinded. that happen under President Obama’s

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