20 , 10 , 5 . 0 . Profitable corporations like General Electric verizon boeing and many others have not only paid nothing for federal income taxes in some recent years, they actually get rebates from the irs. Can we talk about that issue or is the only ways toward a balanced budget to cut programs for the elderly the children the sick and the poor . According to a recent report from the Congressional Research service each and every year profitable corporations are avoiding about 100 billion in taxes by stashing their profits in the cayman islands. The senators time has expired. In with that madam president i yield my time. Who yields time . I would suggest the absence of the cornbread of the senator needs a few more minutes. I thank my colleague. I will take a few more minutes and he can take the rest. The senator from vermont is recognized. Thank you madam chairwoman. The point i was making is if we are serious about reducing the deficit it is inconceivable that one does not look at t
Sales. When we have customers ready to write a check and get yet it is our bureaucracy that seems to think that it knows better and slows it down and makes it more difficult, increasingly it is the Foreign Military sales that help provide the Industrial Base to Keep Technology or keep the capabilities here at home so the harder we make it to sell stuff oversees the more we are hurting ourselves. L. Hold other area that we dont solve is the whole intellectual property issue. And there is i could recite a fair number of issues we dont solve, but i mentioned we have a database of more than a thousand suggestions. This is a start and we are going to use the database of the suggestions when it comes to these problems and in the future years some of my colleagues may offer an amendment this year. But as far as i am concerned we are going to keep after it for a variety of these issues until we try to until we come closer to the kind of system that we all hope and need out of our department of
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