Senate Proceeding 07-30-09 on Jul 30th, 2009 :: 0:50:20 to 0:51:55
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Barbara Boxer: toward roadway spending now, which is the presiding officer: the senator has used up one minute. the senator from california. mrs. boxer: mr. president, i urge strong bipartisan support against vitter amendment. there's nothing about reckless borrowing going on. i already put into the record

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Speech By: Barbara Boxer

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Barbara Boxer: today the c.b.o. analysis of the house bill that's before us that says it even creates a little bit of surplus because of how this is handled. this is not going on the debt. so let's not stand up here and say what it's about. the second point is -- there are tens of billions of dollars unspent funds that we authorized

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Barbara Boxer: here on a bipartisan vote on the stimulus package. now i know most of my colleagues on the other side never wanted to do that stimulus package. i understand that. i respect it. but the fact is we finally see these funds going out and highering the -- hiring the people that we want to make sure have jobs. we see and we hear from our governors that the funding is

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Barbara Boxer: helping them retain teachers, police officers much we see the funding is helping them move forward with shovel ready projects whether it's roads -- the presiding officer: the senator's one minute has expired. mrs. box: ok. i urge a no vote. the presiding officer: the

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Barbara Boxer: question is on the amendment. is there a sufficient second? there appears to be a suffi second.