Important that issue is for our nation and world. Hes given literally his life as an expert on human rights around the world and leading the Helsinki Commission and just talking with us about the importance of this and whats happening with the ukraine and in russia and in europe just recently. So you know, the issue of freedom and private enterprise and opportunity and education and energy selfsufficientry are goals that i mean, we pressure here. And it is possible for the rest of the world and our allies around the world. But what signal does it send if america is not willing to do its part when it comes to production right here in america and transporting oil and fall gas and other emerging fuels, alternative fuels, alternative sources of electricity, when were not doing our very best . So i know that its contentious but i wanted to come to the floor to talk, senator hoeven i think gave a excellent defense of why the Keystone Pipeline is important. But i would just want to underscore
That is demanding that Unemployment Insurance be paid for, that is demanding that the and that the, any change in the sequester be paid for ought to have consistency and not add 15 a 155 billion to our deficit in a vote next week on something i think were all for, and it is easy, mr. Leader, as you well know to vote for tax cuts. Easy. Takes no courage whatsoever. Ive been at this business 45 years. Its opinion my experience its been my experience it is easy for members to vote for tax cuts. What is hard to do is to pay for the policies you adopt. This bill does not do that. This bill makes the deficit worse, exacerbates the confidence that americans have in their fiscal responsibility of their country and puts us in a worse place. So i would hope, mr. Leader, that before this bill comes to the floor that you and the rules committee and mr. Camp as he did in the bill that he offered to this house which was, frankly, dismissed out of hand because it made tough decisions. This bill makes
The work opportunity tax credit expired. Why not extend that, not only to those groups who qualify now but also to people who have been unemployed for a long time, to encourage employers to take a advance on them, to bring them into the back into the work force where they want to be. We could also include other provisions. For example, i have a bipartisan bill with senator donnelly and senator manchin and members on my side of the aisle that would fix the definition of fulltime work under obamacare so that it would be 40 hours a week and not 30 hours a week. We would go back to the standard definition of 40 hours a week. There are tax incentives having to do with bonus depreciation and Small Business expensing that would encourage Small Businesses to make the investments so that they can hire more employees. Madam president , we ought to have a full debate on all of these options, not just stop with one vote on whether or not to proceed to one bill to raise the minimum wage to 10. 10 w
Conservative bent than its had over the last few decades but my liberal friends over many decades got used to the idea of having a liberal court and thats not written in the stars, and i know a lot of people are saying, gosh, we dont want that change. I understand the Energy Associated with that perspective, but its also appropriate for a nation which is, if you will, center right, to have a court which reflects center right points of view which, again, are not changing the law from what it states but instead following the law and following the constitution. Senator romney senator romney virtually guaranteeing that well have a vote for the scotus nominee, the president speaking at the u. N. General assembly. The United States, we launched the most aggressive mobilization since the second world war. We rapidly produced a record supply of ventilators, creating a surplus that allowed us to share them with friends and partners all around the globe. We pioneered lifesaving treatments, reduc
Of boosting public trust. That would make it very difficult for a vaccine to be cleared by november 3rd, election day, here in the United States. A timeline the president has been touting in defiance of so many of his own Health Experts. Lets first go to our national correspondent, erica hill, shes in new york for us. Americans are facing a new level of suffering and grief this this pandemic. They are, hitting that grim milestone of 200,000 deaths of coronavirus in the country. Its important to remember that each one of those losses is a person who mattered to someone. Whose life meant something to them and to others and for so many people in this country, wolf, they took their last breath unable to have a loved one by their side and now, they are among those lives brought us to this number. 20,000 small flags dotting the national mall. To memorialize 200,000 lives lost. The idea of 200,000 deaths is really very sobering and in some respects, stunning. Stunning because it didnt have to