Senate Proceeding 09-30-09 on Sep 30th, 2009 :: 2:03:40 to 2:08:10
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Judd Gregg: the appropriations committee. mr. president, i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from new h mr. gregg: mr. president, i with the senator from arizona's remarks, both on rule 28 and on the issue of the planes. but i also want to rise to point out to this body that we are violating the budget which the

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Speech By: Judd Gregg

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Judd Gregg: body passed with this bill. now, i understand the situati of the senator from nebraska -- th himself in. his bill just happens to be the wrong place at the wrong time and a bunch of people threw a lost baggage on tflt and it was really inappropriate that the baggage was thrown on. one of the moins appropriate things that was thrown on, it is a $

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Judd Gregg: sent to the taxpayers of america to bail out the postal svice. now, this wasn't a this didn't come on as, oh, my gosh, we just don't have $4 billion to pay our pension fund. in fact, this event occurs because of something that occurred back in bailed out the post office the last time. and everybody knew it was coming. i mean, this train has been

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Judd Gregg: coming down this track and the track has been straight, and we've seen it coming for a long time. and so suddenly this bailout which the american taxpayer is going to have to payor nebraska's bill. i regret that. and it makes his bill out of whack relative to the budget. we have already -- this is the

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Judd Gregg: last day of the year. we've already spent all the money. we've spent it owl. -- we've spent it all. a little bit more, too. but we've spent all the money in the budget. we're over outlays. and all of the b.a. has been spent and so slid out of the clear, blue sky we're being asked -- well, it's not the 11th hour.

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Judd Gregg: we've got a few before the someday over -- but on the last day of the budget to spend a few more millions bucks. let's stick with the budget. that's the idea. i think the american people are getting a little tired of us spending money we don't have, especially since it is theirs and their grandchildren's. it all goes on the debt, by the way. this $4 billion right to the debt. so a i'm asking our body to do

2:05:44 to 2:06:04( Edit History Discussion )

Judd Gregg: is live by what we do. live by the budget we pass. so i intend to make a point of order under rule 311 of the budget act which says that you cannot exceed what you said you budgeted for. it is a very simpl ofnlgt you know t budget. and if you go over the budget, there is a point of order that you shouldn't waive.

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Judd Gregg: so we shouldn't spend $4 billion we don't have. i want to point out this was not the senator from nebraska's doing. he plays this other than being the unfortunate baggage car that was passing through the congress when somebod this on this bill. so at this point i will make a point of order that the pending

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Judd Gregg: conference report the aggregate level of the budget authority and the outlays for the fiscal year 2009 as set out in the most recentl agreed-to concurrent resolution on the budget, budget con. res. 13 to be exceeded. therefore, i raise a point of order on under congressional budget office of 1974.

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Judd Gregg: mr. nelson: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from nebraska. mr. nelson: pursuant to section 904 of budget office of of 1974, i move to waive all applicable sections of that act and ask for the yeas and nays. mr. gregg: mr. president? the presiding officer: is there a sufficient secon there is. there appe

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Judd Gregg: the yeas and nays are ordered. mr. gregg: i would simply note that there were two other budget act points of order against this item in the bill. i understand that from nebraska is asking i presume on behalf of the leadership to waive them all. but it is really inappropriate that we should just waive the whole budget act and spend $4 billion we don't have on the last day of the fiscal year.

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Judd Gregg: and so i would hope members would take a serious look at this. this can be corrected in other ways. we can find ways to offset this money. it can be done on another bill th the proper offsets, and therefore i would hope that my colleagues would sustain what they passed, which was the budget for this year on the last day of the budget enforcement for the year. and i would yield the floor,

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Judd Gregg: make a point of order -- i would yield the floor. a senator: i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presid clerk will call the roll.