companies to bring pensions up to date which means revenue and tax collection. bill would have excluded any kpla mant who earned $1 million more in the previous year. this would have added zero to the deficit and senator portman voted against it. today senator portman s office provided a statement which reads in part with record numbers of long-term unemployed workers, i worked with my colleagues to try to find a common sense way forward to pay for three-month extension of unemergency unemployment benefits while reforms were put in place to better meet the needs of those who can t find a job. unfortunately, majority leader reid went ahead with his own proposal and we ended up back where we started despite our best efforts to find a common sense solution. i support an alternative to pay for a three-month extension that actually included a provision that majority leader reid introduced himself and was in president obama s budget. senator reid since abandoned the idea altogether and woul
today s bill had offsets. the $6.4 billion was paid for by pension smoothing which allows companies to bring pensions up to date which means revenue and tax collection. bill would have excluded any complaintant who earned $1 million more in the previous year. this would have added zero to the deficit and senator portman voted against it. today senator portman s office provided a statement which reads in part with record numbers of long-term unemployed workers, i worked with my colleagues to try to find a common sense way forward to pay for three-month extension of unemergency unemployment benefits while reforms were put in place to better meet the needs of those who can t find a job. unfortunately, majority leader reid went ahead with his own proposal and we ended up back where we started despite our best efforts to find a common sense solution. i support an alternative to pay for a three-month extension that actually included a provision that majority leader reid introduced himself a
complaintant who earned $1 million more in the previous year. this would have added zero to the deficit and senator portman voted against it. today senator portman s office provided a statement which reads in part with record numbers of long-term unemployed workers, i worked with my colleagues to try to find a common sense way forward to pay for three-month extension of unemergency unemployment benefits while reforms were put in place to better meet the needs of those who can t find a job. unfortunately, majority leader reid went ahead with his own proposal and we ended up back where we started despite our best efforts to find a common sense solution. i support an alternative to pay for a three-month extension that actually included a provision that majority leader reid introduced himself and was in president obama s budget. senator reid since abandoned the idea altogether and would not allow a vote as an amendment. he introduced his own offset proposal that put taxpayers at risk. ma
a second obama care route? this would include talking about executive action that might help? the pesky three branches of government. it is checks and balances. and the truth is, that the checks and balances have led to a lot of grid lock since the president has become president and he will make the argument in terms of the things that american public wanted, minimum wage to be dealt with and gun control and immigration, that congress has been stalled. congress has been stalled. we have the most liberal president since woodrow wilson or fdr and most consensitive house since the 1920s, and that is not changing. and those are not changing in the next couple of years. but the problem is there is no common areas in which to it work in which there is a common sense solution.
and they felt it was that important? of course, that s the reason why. and don t forget when they funded the government, the next day or that same day, harry reid and the democrats found a bill to delay it for a year. it is it business as usual. and a lot of rewriting of history and blame and i didn t do this or that. and people going to go back to constitients instead of saying we made a mistake. and we ll put it back and put on hold and not just meet with democrats, but how about everybody and work together to get a common sense solution. the president said we use massachusetts as a template. and why is not texas and north carolina do what massachusetts did and get veried. why do we need the federal government, one size fits all approach