Senate Proceeding on Apr 4th, 2008 :: 0:01:43 to 0:04:23
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Speech By: Sheldon Whitehouse

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Sheldon Whitehouse: please take their conversations outside of the senate. so that the senator from mississippi may be heard. will senators please take their conversations outside of the senate so that the senator from

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Roger F. Wicker: mississippi may be heard. the senator from mississippi. ipmr. wicker: thank you,th mr. president. i thank the senator from louisiana for yielding me an opportunity to speak. this is an example of how the

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Speech By: Roger F. Wicker

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Roger F. Wicker: government can work to help the citizens who have been disadvantaged by a storm. when members work together in a bipartisan manner. the senator from louisiana will be able to explain briefly the base

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Roger F. Wicker: amendment that she authored. i would simply like to thank her for agreeing to incorporate two very important amendments into hers. one is with regard to the bonus depreciation piece of the gulf opportunity

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Roger F. Wicker: zone act, known in shorthand as the go-zone. because of bureaucratic delays and simply because of the magnitude of hurricane katrina, people who would le to take opportunity of the go-zone bonus depreciation

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Roger F. Wicker: have not been able to commence the construction because it simply has been impossible to do so. the wicker-cochran amendment, which the senator has agreed to incorporate into her amendment, would

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Roger F. Wicker: simply move the commencement date ofnt go-zone construction. i would also point out she has graciously agreed toio add a brownback and roberts amendment which will help the small town of greensburg,

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Roger F. Wicker: kansas, which was completely devastated in a storm recently. and so i urge all senators to vote in favor of this simple change in the date on bonus depreciation. and once again i thank the senator

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Roger F. Wicker: from louisiana for agreeing to this. the presiding officer: the question is on the amendment. the senator from tennessee. a senator: for the sake of con on sissy i want to raise a point of order that

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Roger F. Wicker: this amendment violates resolution 21. ms. landrieu: pursuant to section 204 of concurrent resolution 21, i move to waive the section of the concurrent resolution for the purposes of the pending amendment,