Under confirmation in just over an hour. U. S. Senate here on cspan2. Mr. Schumer mr. President . The president pro tempore the majority leader. Mr. Schumer now, the senate is laserfocused on confirming President Bidens impressive cabinet while paving the way for another round of urgent covid relief. The two tasks will remain the top Senate Priorities over the next several weeks. By the end of this week, the senate will have confirmed three cabinetlevel officials the u. N. Ambassador, the secretaries of agriculture and energy, and will have set up confirmation votes early next week for the secretaries of education and commerce and the chair of the council of economic advisors. This week Senate Committees will held confirmation hearings on scores of other nominations including the president s candidates for attorney general, h. H. S. Secretary, interior secretary, c. I. A. Director, Surgeon General and u. S. Trade rep. At the same time democrats are preparing to proceed with the urgentl
but more importantly, i m confident it will get us on track for real tax relief for working families and will have this bill on the president s desk by the end of this year. last week when the bill passed i said it wasn t just about changing the trajectory of our economy. it s about changing the future we hand to her kids and our grandkids. i really think, mr.hi president, that s what this bill will do. lots of talk in washington about things that frankly will never turn out to be the facts that we are hearing, maybe they are the alternative facts, but one thing i think will happen is that working families will see in one of their first paychecks next year that this tax bill, , these tax cuts, really affect them. whatever your t paycheck is, reflects what you start getting paid on january 1, in virtually every case, working families are going to have more take-home pay. and those numbers are pretty big. f u-visa go ias was at patriot machine in st. charles missouri and spoke
used that did not allow us to really know what we are doing. as a result, it s my understanding there are numerous provisions in both the house and senate bill that will not work and will require changes. secondly, we profess to want to do this to help middle-income families but in reality this bill hurts middle-inincome families, both the house and senate bill. i hope that will be corrected in conference. and the third, and there is no dispute about this, the house bill and senate bill add anywhere between $2 trillion to the deficit of this country and we shouldn t be deficit financing a tax reform bill. let me first talk very briefly about process. let s not repeat the mistakes that we made. it was outrageous that late friday night we got a 500-page-plus amendment to the pending bill and tried to read it and couldn t even read the handwritten changes that were put into the margins, and then we were asked to vote on that later that evening. that process just is not befitting
ms. ca tooth owe: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from west virginia. ms. caputo: i wish sam and his next deployment well as his military liaison and i thank him as well for serving our country. ms. capito: i come to the floor to talk about tax reform and its benefits for middle-class families across this nation, but first i d like to highlight a program that is critical to these families, especially the children, especially the children. that is the state children s health insurance program, or as we refer to it and it s referred across the nation, chip. mrs. capito: for more than 20 years, and really, this is the beginning when i first began serving in the west virginia house of delegates, chip was one of the first programs that i became a strong champion for. and that s because i understand how critical it is that it was then for families in west virginia and what it is now. when i was in the legislature in the 1990 s, i served on the committee charged wi
differences are crippled can leaders have said they hope to have a final bill to the president by christmas. the senate is back tomorrow morning and here our floor speeches about the tax reform bill and daca. mr. presidentnt. the senator from maryland. i take the time to talk about pending business. tax proposal going into a conference committee between the house and senate as i m sure the american people now know that 2:00 a.m. in the morningno on early saturday morning the senate passed its version of tax reformef. of the house had already done that and we are working on a house bill. the motion before us is to take that bill and send it to a conference. we would be better off sending it back to committee so that we could have public hearings and understand what we are voting on rather then send it to a conference committee. i hope we will take advantage of the conference to deal with the three fundamental flaws included in both the house and senate bill. first was th