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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 they're moving ahead on anything unless it benefits them. they don't even allow amendments. that is what happened last week on a very, very important bill they wouldn't even allow amendments even though the president supported my substitute amendment or at least hadn't indicated, white house indicated they support it. look the senate should be a place where you have these debates. where you can really look at all these matters ca...

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 chosen to repeat history, we would have allowed a government shutdown. instead, we decided to make hist...

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 would have allowed a government shutdown. instead, we decided to make history. by implementing and in...

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 their outstanding work during this difficult negotiation. we had an opportunity tonight to decide w...

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 talked about. mr. president, with the permission of the republican leader, asked you to proceed that wi...