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A senator madam president . The presiding officer the senator from south dakota. Mr. Thune madam president , i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Thune madam president , i come to the floor today to talk about the damage obamacare is doing to the struggling economy. Now after months of unrelenting coverage of obamacares many problems and after fridays release of decembers dismal jobs report, im sure democrats here in the senate would prefer that we talk about almost anything else. After all, when you have held most of the power...

Trying to raise more taxes for washington to spend the money. How does this end . In the end, republicans, from everybody i talked to, they could live with the across the board cutting. It would hurt your state deeply. It would hurt the defense industry. Are you willing to just live with it . Heres what i hope will happen. We have in our alternative several proposals that the president has actually come out in favor of. There are improvements to the whats called the medicare provider tax, to get rid of the gimmick that states are playing. The president supports that. Our plan says we have to b...

Sponsor of for that reason. These are indiscriminate cuts. We can do a lot better. What i hope to be able to hear from the president in the state of the union is he wants to join us in trying to effect much smarter cuts in spending. But thats what hes saying. We dont have to have the impact that you just described. Why not work with him on shortterm measure which he is talking about to delay this, find a different way to go about some of the cuts . The problem is, david, every time you turn around the answer is to raise taxes. And, you know, he just got his tax hike on the wealthy. And you can...

In washington as the president prepares to deliver his state of the Union Address tuesday night. As we begins a second term, were being told he will return to his primary message of how to restore economic growth. Well talk to both sides this morning. Majority leader eric cantor and assistant democratic leader in the senate dick durbin. I want to welcome you back to meet the press. Pleasure, david. Thank you. There are so many areas that are contentious right now, and chief among them is the sequester word. This dirty word in washington, that means automatic spending cuts. It could begin in a ...

As we begins a second term, were being told he will return to his primary message of how to restore economic growth. Well talk to both sides this morning. Majority leader eric cantor and assistant democratic leader in the senate dick durbin. I want to welcome you back to meet the press. Pleasure, david. Thank you. There are so many areas that are contentious right now, and chief among them is the sequester word. This dirty word in washington, that means automatic spending cuts. It could begin in a matter of weeks with 85 billion in automatic cuts. Do you really want this as a republican leader...