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Economy and create jobs and remove all doubt, remove all doubt in the full faith and credit in the United States of america. Every time you come to this floor its a question, why are we here . We are here to do the peoples work. Lets sit down. Get it done. And move forward. Instead of filling the agenda however worthy some of those initiatives may be, instead of not along with passing a middle income tax this is also reminiscent of a year ago. The president proposed, the house and senate, democrats and republicans, voted for the payroll tax holiday. The republicans in the house resisted. Paint...

Package had been lost. He indicates he now suffers from several Health Conditions as a result and has been informed that the v. A. Denies his benefits. A veteran from hutchinson indicated that hes been fighting with the v. A. For seven years on appeal. So hes got something pending with the v. A. Theyve provided him an answer that is unsatisfactory and he is appealing that decision. Claims the v. A. Continues to ignore the evidence he provides and intentionally attempts to drag out his appeal process. And he has difficulties finding updates on his appeal when he contacts the v. A. Just someone ...

Do they enroll their children in the school where they are now or assume theyll be confirmed by then and look at enrolling them in the country in which theyll be serving . Why are we putting people who are serving their country through that type of uncertainty and anxiety . But we are. We are, by failing to move in a timely way the nominations that have been brought forward to us. Ill just mention one other example. I started with the hearing that i chaired today on behalf of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee dealing with four nominees. One was the ambassador to vietnam. I was just recent...

Gets used for corporations and the wealthy. Thats not a guess, by the way. That is the way the republican budget budget is structured. Thats their budget numbers. Awful it to lower all of it to lower tax rates for corporations and the rich. Theyre willing to spread the wealth around, as long as it stays in the same hands. Were at the gates of ali babas cave, this special treasuretrove of earmarks for the rich and connected. Were at that place where the lobbyistists queel the special x deals. Were knocking on the door of tax spending that has been completely untouched, completely untouched in t...

Im not sure that they really realize that more people are going to be hurt by this, especially seniors who do not fall in that doughnut hole anymore. I fell in that with my husband who is terminally ill. Because we fell in that doughnut hole, a onemonth, we had to come up with 2000 for his medication to keep him alive. If we had the bill in play, i would not have had to come up with that money. You can imagine that 2000 out. F one months income yes, it was december. , january, we would have gotten a new start, but he had to have his medication. We had to let Something Else go, like the house p...