Senate Proceeding on Jul 30th, 2009 :: 3:03:05 to 3:06:35
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Barbara Boxer: areas that they represent. chair and yield the floor. mrs. boxer: madam president? mr. bond: and i call excuse me. i call up the amendment. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from missouri, mr. bond, proposes an amendment numbered 1904. at the appropriate place -- of the amendment be dispensed with. the presiding officer:zeithout objection.

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Speech By: Barbara Boxer

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Barbara Boxer: mrs. boxer: the presiding officer: the senator from california. mrs. boxer: before senator bond leaves the floor, i again want to thank him f his leadership assure him and all the people who support this amendment that this amendment will pass. it won't pass today i don't think for one main reason: we're

3:03:44 to 3:04:04( Edit History Discussion )

Barbara Boxer: fearful of, you know, playing these parliamentary the house on the highway trust fund. and we have until s to address my friend is entirely correct, we must deal with this recession and we have to repeal it and we're going to repeal it, and i

3:04:05 to 3:04:26( Edit History Discussion )

Barbara Boxer: will work with him to do that. i simply wanted to say that on september 30 with our next deadline, the entire bill has to be reauthorized. so it's not only this problem but many other issues have to be addressed. and, again, i want to state this this, i'm not happy house sent us this very short extension.

3:04:27 to 3:04:49( Edit History Discussion )

Barbara Boxer: i, and i know my colleague, wanted to see the highway trust fund extended for 18 months. i think the places that we differ really have to do with how we pay for the extension. and senator vitter and all my colleagues who were dealing with unemployment insurance and the rest want to cut funds out of

3:04:50 to 3:05:11( Edit History Discussion )

Barbara Boxer: the program. i think it is unnecessary. i also would say to my colleagues who say we're borrowing and beer borrowing to do all -- and we're borrowing to do all this. simply look at the c.b.o. score which scores this as a positive. the house bill is scored as a positive because of some of the legislative changes in it. so, again, i just want to be clear.

3:05:12 to 3:05:33( Edit History Discussion )

Barbara Boxer: i will wk side-by-side with senator bond. we're going to reauthorize the highway bill. it might be for 18 months. maybe we get together and we can come up with a bill for five or six yearsment we have to funding source to do that. i hope we can. but we dea with the bond amendment. we have to deal with it.

3:05:34 to 3:05:55( Edit History Discussion )

Barbara Boxer: the senator is exactly right, exactly right, and he talks about taking shovels away from workers. the only place i disagree with him is that i think you're taking shovels away from workers by cutting the stimulus. i visited my state. i see people being put to work. and as senator -- vice president biden said, you know, we've only

3:05:56 to 3:06:19( Edit History Discussion )

Barbara Boxer: seen 25% of the stim money go out the door. so i also wanted to ask that when senator mccain comes to the floor, he wanted some time to speak on the bond amendment, so i'd ask unanimous consent that senator mccain be given up to 15 minutes to speak on the bond amendment. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs.

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Barbara Boxer: yield the floor. mrs. boxer: i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk