Senate Proceeding 09-30-09 on Sep 30th, 2009 :: 0:39:45 to 0:44:00
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Barbara Boxer: a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from california. mrs. boxer: i wonder if the managers would allow me to make a unanimous consent request about a dealing with the highway trust fund at this time? it would take about two or three minutes. is that all right with them? the presiding officer senator from mississippi. mr. cochran: i have no objection

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Speech By: Barbara Boxer

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Barbara Boxer: to the senator discussing her suggestion. mrs. boxer: thank you. the presiding officer: the senator from california. mrs. boxer: we're in a very bad situation with the highway trust fund. we are working hard on both sides of the aisle to resolve it. senator inhofe and i are absolutely in agreement on what we should do, but yet still

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Barbara Boxer: there is objection from the other side of the aisle, my republican friends. i want to explain where we are, and then i'm going to make the unanimous consent request. in the safety loop which was there was an $8 billion rescission that was made, and the promise at that time years

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Barbara Boxer: ago is that we would fix it in the days, months, and years ahead. so it wasn't fixed, and if we don't repeal the decision tonight, what will happen immediately is that the will have to be layoffs, there will have to be cancellation of contracts, and the order will go out from here to our states.

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Barbara Boxer: 17,000 jobs are on the line. we have to repeal this rescission. it translates in about $300 million. so i have been working with senator inhofe, and we reached agreement, and frankly the leaders, i believe, reached an agreement that what we ought

0:41:28 to 0:41:48( Edit History Discussion )

Barbara Boxer: do is repeal this decision, and as a pay-for cut the because we know that a lot of those funds have been paid back, cut that program equivalent so we real the rescission, everybody keeps working, the contracts are still going, and

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Barbara Boxer: we pay for this repeal by cutting $300 million from the tarp program, the toxic asset relief program. not very popular in the country, i might add. i have to say that i ask the administration -- i asked the administration for some other

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Barbara Boxer: ideas and they had none and i believe in pay as you so i said to senator inhofe that i was with him on this, and he and i are in agreement. so at this time i'm going to make this former unanimous consent request to repeal this rescission and pay for it by cutting the tarp program. so i ask unanimous consent, mr. president, that the senate

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Barbara Boxer: proceed to the iediate consideration of h.r. 3617 received from the house, it's at the desk, that the boxer substitute amendment at the desk be considered. further, that the boxer-inhofe second-degree amendment with an offset be consi to, the substitute amendment as amended be agreed to, the bill

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Barbara Boxer: as amended be read a third time, passed, and the motion to reconsider laid upon the table, and any statements relating to the measure appear at the appropriate place in the record as if read without further intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: is there objection? the senator from nebraska. mr. johanns: mr. president, i

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Barbara Boxer: rise to my understanding is that there is an objection on our side of the aisle relative to this -- this approach, so i rise this evening to object. mrs. box: mr. president? the presiding officer: objection heard. the senator from california. mrs. boxer: let me say how frankly shocked i am at this objection.

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Barbara Boxer: you have the chairman of the e.p.w. committee, the ranking member of the e.p.w. committee. this is an amendment that was bond of your side of the aisle, and i do not understand how the republicans could take this position when we can see contracts abrogated as a result

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Barbara Boxer: of our lack ofction.