| Export-Import Bank Reauthorization Act Of 2012—Motion To Proceed |
May 14, 2012 |
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Bob Corker, R-TN
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"I think most people in this body know there is no way this bill is going to work the way it is laid out; that the costs are going to be substantially more because in a free enterprise system, people act on their own behalf, in their own self-interest. The subsidies are so high for families up to $88,000 a year, the penalty is so low, what is going to happen is we are going to have millions and millions of people out on this program far beyond the projections that have been laid out."
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| Nomination Of George Levi Russell Iii, To Be United States District Judge For The District Of Maryland |
May 14, 2012 |
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Richard Durbin, D-IL
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"It isn’t fair to the nominees. It really takes a pretty stalwart individual to put their name up to be a Federal judge because they are going to go through three or four different levels of investigation and some pretty serious investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, for example. That is part of the process. There are investigations by the White House, by the Senators’ offices, by the Senate Judiciary Committee. So it is not an easy undertaking. There might have been a time—I know there was—when these nominations were made in 48 hours with hardly a question asked. It doesn’t happen anymore. Hard questions are asked, and then comes the suspense of starting the process and waiting for it to end. These poor nominees sit there with their professional and personal lives on hold, having said they are prepared to step forward and serve a lifetime appointment on the Federal judiciary, and then they wait day after weary day, week after weary week, month after month, sitting on this Executive Calendar so that at some point there will be a bargaining session and some names will go forward and some won’t."
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| Securing American Jobs Through Exports Act Of 2012—Motion To Proceed |
May 10, 2012 |
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Harry Reid, D-NV
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"So we are going to have to have a vote on this rather than do it by unanimous consent. The bank will hit its lending limit any day. Its current authorization ends at the end of this month, May. So it will be very important we work to pass the House bill as quickly as possible. If we amend the bill and send it back to the House, we have to start all over again. The House is basically not in session this month, under their very difficult schedule of working 2 weeks on and 1 week off and then sometimes longer than that. I do not know when they are going to be here. It would be so much better, on a noncontroversial, very important piece of legislation—last year, 300,000 jobs—not 30,000 but "
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| Senate Resolution 455—Designating June 27, 2012, As “National Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Day” |
May 10, 2012 |
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Kent Conrad, D-ND
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"For many, the war does not end when the warrior comes home. All too many service members and veterans face PTSD symptoms like anxiety, anger, and depression as they try to adjust to life after war. We cannot sweep these problems under the rug. PTSD is real. We know PTSD is caused by a traumatic event. We also know that we are sending our troops into combat situations where they are going to experience traumatic events. We know that the percentage of PTSD diagnoses increases with each deployment into combat. We know, as a nation, that we must take responsibility to help our sons and daughters cope with what they have experienced. We owe them that much."
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| American Values |
May 10, 2012 |
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Louie Gohmert, R-TX
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"Well, Randolph, his proposal, after Franklin, was we basically have had so much disagreement, such a spirit of anger in here, I move that we all go to church. Here we are, the end of June, we’re about to celebrate the country’s anniversary. I move that we all go to church together, and all of us—the irony of this, all of us, as part of the Constitutional Convention, that are going to give this Nation the Constitution that will one day cause the Supreme Court to say we don’t think that you can constitutionally do what the Founders and the writers of the Constitution did, he said, we all ought to go to church together in celebration of the anniversary and then come back and pick this up."
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