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Much time remains on the unanimous consent agreement . The presiding officer you may. The democrats have approximately six minutes. Mr. Van hollen all right. Thank you, mr. President. I see senator menendez from new jersey has arrived to cosponsor together with senator cantwell and myself on this amendment. I want to thank senator cantwell for her leadership, and she has covered a number of important points. The main one is that from the beginning of our federal tax code in 1913, we established a principle in the United States to avoid double taxation. It makes no sense that any citizens of this country send a dollar of tax to their state governments to help schools or roads in their state and then they are turned around and taxed on that same dollar by the federal government, but thats exactly what this republican tax plan is doing. Now, weeks and weeks ago the republican leader, senator mcconnell, and the speaker of the house, pa ....
On the bill. How can you have a child impact statement and generalize about it without a hearing . And, of course, we need more than generalizations. We need specifics. So i think we have to ask those questions and be focused on children in a very specific way. Heres the last thing ill say. This opportunity to come together in a bipartisan fashion, which is not has not happened in this case, but we had the opportunity, and the majority could have taken a different path. They could have said to us months ago, lets have a bipartisan process, lets not move to a pathway that only requires 51 votes. Lets have a real bipartisan process on tax reform like they did in the mid1980s, resolving the 1986 bill, right . They could have said we have a bipartisan concern about children. We like the child independent cared tax credit and the earned income tax credit. They are all good policies. We want to make them better. We want to have a bipartisan effort to infuse those policies with more funding, ....