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Voting has ended for the fourth and final of the foreign aid packages as of todays very rare saturday session, there in us House Of Representatives. And you look at the toll those 366258 in favor of passage of this 26 israel aid package, 17 billion of it would go to offensive and defensive weapons for israel, 9 billion in humanitarian an aid for gaza. Of course, we still have to hear them officially say that this has been passed, but manu raju, back with this, theyre outside outside there on capitol hill. They have four items today to accomplish. Checkmark on three of them. Youve got to Nation...

33, corporate amendment 17. I will make a clear from the start nature of this amendment is to try to follow the advice about every witness who testified in this room back in september about how to stabilize that exchanges. Everyones said we should make clear that the cost sharing reduction which would set the cost of copays and adaptable, make it clear they are going away for at least two years. Number two they said put in place a Reinsurance Program for highly expensive patient care particular patients. Number three, they said we should retain in the individual mandate if we decide not to rep...

Today. President. Madam president , the matter that is before the senate is the amendment that i have offered, and it simply is that in this tax bill, since the corporate rate is reduced from 35 down to 20 and that is permanent but the modest middleclass tax breaks are not permanent, in seven or eight years, they cease to exist, they sunset. So you want in this tax bill to give permanent, huge corporate cuts from 35 down to 20 , which by the way if the American Corporation is doing business overseas, its basically a zero tax rate, which is an incentive to go overseas, send jobs overseas, ameri...

Lifting of the quorum call . The presiding officer the senator may proceed. Mr. Nelson thank you, madam president. Madam president , the matter that is before the senate is the amendment that i have offered, and it simply is that in this tax bill, since the corporate rate is reduced from 35 down to 20 and that is permanent but the modest middleclass tax breaks are not permanent, in seven or eight years, they cease to exist, they sunset. So you want in this tax bill to give permanent, huge corporate cuts from 35 down to 20 , which by the way if the American Corporation is doing business oversea...

Unreached republicans are reaching heretofore, unreached heights of hypocrisy and the senate is descending to a new low of chicanery. Read the bill . Theyre still writing it by hand mere hours before voting on it. Is this really how republicans are going to rewrite the tax code . Scrawled like something on the back of a napkin behind closed doors with the help of k street lobbyists . If thats not a recipe for swindling the middle class and loosening loopholes for the wealthy, i dont know what is. I dont know if its possible for a Senate Majority leader to depart further from responsible legisl...