Senate Proceeding on Jul 26th, 2007 :: 1:07:05 to 1:11:05
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Speech By: Jim DeMint

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Jim DeMint: i yield the floor. mr. cochran: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from mississippi. mr. cochran: mr. president, i notice the presence on the floor of the distinguished senator from ohio

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George Voinovich: who is authorized under the order to have a specific amount of time for debate. mr. voinovich: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. voinovich: i'd like to thank the ranking

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Speech By: George Voinovich

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George Voinovich: member of the homeland security appropriations committee for giving necessity opportunity -- for giving me this opportunity. yesterday when i heard that the senate was considering passing an additional

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George Voinovich: $3 billion in emergency spending to secure the border, i looked into the situation very carefully and calculated that with the money that the homeland security proke came up appropriations committee

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George Voinovich: came up with is that we are going to be increasing spending for homeland security border by 10%. the president's budget when it was submitted increased border protection by 6%. the homeland appropriations

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George Voinovich: committee in their wisdom decided by another $1.4 billion, which takes it to a 10% increase increase. and if this -- the amendment, the pryor-graham amendment passes, we will have increased it almost

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George Voinovich: 20% over what we spent last year. and i let the majority leader know that i objected to having this considered by a u.c. i want to thank him for the opportunity to object to it on the basis of

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George Voinovich: a u.c. and i am pleased that this will be on for a roll call vote i believe at 11:30. i'm asking that the reasons why i object and why i will be voting "no" on this amendment be inserted in the "congressional

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George Voinovich: record." the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. voinovich: i'd like to thank the ranking member of the homeland security appropriations committee nor opportunity and hope that

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George Voinovich: some of my colleagues have an opportunity to understand why i think that what we're doing here today is absolutely fiscally irresponsible, that from talking to the people in homeland security, they're going

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George Voinovich: to have a tough time spending the money that's already been appropriated by the -- by the committee and that i know that all of us are trying to convey to the public that we want secure the border. there's

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George Voinovich: no one that's more ardent about that than i am. mr. president, i have been on the homeland secity committee since i came to the senate, was part of creating the department of homeland security. i have

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George Voinovich: spent hours with mr. chertoff, and i really believe that the money that has been suggested by the appropriations committee is more than adequate to get the job done. and i don't think that we should

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George Voinovich: go through the charade of making the american people feel that we're really sincere about securing the border by spending another $3 billion of emergency spending when the money that we have already

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George Voinovich: available is -- will get the job done and then some. i yield the floor. mr. graham: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from south carolina. mr. graham:. mr. president, i believe under

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Jon Tester: the agreement, the remaining time will be controlled by myself and senator pryor from arkansas; is that correct? the presiding officer: the minority has 40 seconds left in morning business. mr. graham:

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Speech By: Jon Tester