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Job growth in this country and real tax reform. why are we not hearing more about those things from congress? >> because we have the senate dominated by democrats and theyre moving ahead on anything unless it benefits them. they dont even allow amendments. that is what happened last week on a very, very important bill they wouldnt even allow amendments even though the president supported my substitute amendment or at least hadnt indicated, white house indicated they support it. look the senate s...

Proceed to hr-1363, that a substitute amendment, a seven-day continuing resolution with agreed to and be read a third time and the senate proceed to vote on passage of the bill as amended that the motion be considered and laid on the table. >> is there objection? >> mr. president, let me thank my friend and speaker boehner for their outstanding work during this difficult negotiation. you know, we had an opportunity tonight to decide whether we wanted to repeat history or make history. had we cho...

Substitute amendment, a seven-day continuing resolution with agreed to and be read a third time and the senate proceed to vote on passage of the bill as amended that the motion be considered and laid on the table. >> is there objection? >> mr. president, let me thank my friend and speaker boehner for their outstanding work during this difficult negotiation. you know, we had an opportunity tonight to decide whether we wanted to repeat history or make history. had we chosen to repeat history, we w...

Mr. president, with the permission of the republican leader, asked you to proceed that will read the substitute amendment, a continuing resolution that the desk, agreeing to the bill to be amended a third time and the senate proceed to vote on passage of the bill as amended and the motion be considered canadian light on the table with all the above concurring with no intervening action or debate. >> is there an objection? >> mr. president. >> the republican leader. >> let me thank my friends for...

Level of cuts for the remainder of this fiscal year as well as a short-term bridge will give us time. to get agreement from both houses and to the president. i repeat, we will cut $78.5 billion and we have reached an agreement, for the second time on the policy riders. i do that because that has not been easy. and in the meantime, we will pass a short-term resolution to keep the government running through friday. that bridge will cut the first $2 billion of the total savings that we have our tal...

Billion and have reached an agreement on the policy riders. i do that, because that has not been easy. in the meantime, well pass a resolution to keep the government running through this coming friday. that short-term bridge will cut the first $2 billion of the total savings weve talked about. so mr. president, i -- with the permission of the republican leader, ask unanimous consent to proceed to hr-1363, that a substitute amendment, a seven-day continuing resolution with agreed to and be read a...

Back from 19 months to seven months, trimming $16 billion. tough cuts for democrats and still far from the $79 billion needed to reduce the deficit impact to zero. >> this is a new substitute amendment. it address misof the same as the last substitute but its smaller. its fewer dollars involved here. all of the amendment is offset except for two matters, the unemployment insurance and the aid to the states under medicaid. that is the safety net provisions are not. those two. everything else is o...

Back from 19 months to seven months, trimming $16 billion. tough cuts for democrats and still far from the $79 billion needed to reduce the deficit impact to zero. >> this is a new substitute amendment. it addressmisof the same as the last substitute but its smaller. its fewer dollars involved here. all of the amendment is offset except for two matters, the unemployment insurance and the aid to the states under medicaid. that is the safety net provisions are not. those two. everything else is of...

We will ever pay for anything? that is what senators say they want. and that is what the american people want. they want us to get our budgets in order just like they have to get their budgets in order every day. but that is not what the majority is doing. so tonight, tomorrow, and on every spending bill in the future, we will see whether they mean business about controlling our debt or if it is just words. we will see if paygo has any teeth or not. tonight i am offering a substitute amendment t...

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