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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20150320

Has to sidebyside being distributed . Mr. Chairman, can i move my vote after. We are waiting for a ruling from the parliamentarian. I couldnt hear you. Waiting on berlin from the parliamentarian. Okay. Can i move my votes until the end of the tranche . [inaudible conversations] the next one is to widen rural schools and there is a sidebyside which has been handed out already. [inaudible conversations] so on a sidebyside, two minutes of debate. Colleagues, my amendment creates a Deficit Neutral Reserve Fund to protect americas treasures and grow our rural economies in a balanced way. The sidebyside ties the wellbeing of rural economies and our spectacular treasures we all revere to unsustainable logging levels. So i hope we will look carefully at the numbers here because the programs involved already get a significant amount of their funding from logging. This amendment would jack up the logging level far beyond what ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20150319

Senator voice vote unless there is an objection. Those in favor say aye. Opposed. Accepted. Senator staben nows will be next and changed her amendment and ask that to be next. Senator sanders are you waiting . Senator stabenow we made a small change. If you would like to senator small change. See if we can comply with that. Longterm spending. Senator i hope we have that continued bipartisan spirit that information is a good thing if we are going to solve a problem we have to define it properly and we have it. My amendment is pretty simple. Weve got the chart up on the big screen again that the definition of this problem. All these promises to the baby boom generation, we see the exploding deficit and asking c. B. O. When they submit their report a percentage of g. D. P. , which we added just report the amount of dollar over the next 30 years. Senator if i could complyment him. Senator any objection to a voice vote. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The amount is passed. Our ne ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20150320

Are healthier. But the republican budget puts all of that at risk because it is a dark vision for the future that says to everyone across america that youre going to have to work harder for less. And here are a few examples because we, even though unemployment is lower, weve got to do better with paychecks, with takehome pay and higher wages. Here are a few examples. When you think about how do we boost wages across america. I had an amendment last night to make sure that america keeps its number one position globally in medical research. It was an amendment that said its time to answer the call of dr. Francis collins at nih. The journal of american the American Medical Association said congress, unless you act soon, asia the Asian Countries are going to eat our lunch. Theyre going to become the World Leaders
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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20140410

Being held up for no reason other than they want to make sure that if we have somebody is going to be a Circuit Court judge we have to file cloture, thats two hours, i mean two days and then we have 30 hours and then and then we have on a simply moving to a piece of legislation we waste a week getting on that because of their obstruction and delay. So, madam president , its unfortunate that my friends talk about all the great things theyve done. Ill tell you the great things theyve done. This is i could give you lots of examples. We tried to do a highway bill. A highway bill. Important for this country. We have a deficit in infrastructure of 3 trillion. It wasnt much better a couple years ago. So what we brought believe that to that bill to the floor and this great amendment process, they want, what they wanted to stop women from getting contraceptives. That held things up a month, a month, before they got some sense and withdrew t ....

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