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May 14, 2012 |
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Susan Collins, R-ME
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"What began with horses, buggies, and wagons is today a thriving enterprise of 22 luxury motor coaches, 200 school buses, and nearly 250 employees. A company that got its start hauling lumber for a local canoe factory now serves 17 school districts across Maine with an exemplary safety record. They offer tours throughout the United States and Canada from New York City at Christmas to Washington, D.C., in cherry blossom season. As a native of Aroostook County, I know how valuable their daily intercity service is to the towns and cities of northern Maine."
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| Export-Import Bank Reauthorization Act Of 2012—Motion To Proceed |
May 14, 2012 |
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Harry Reid, D-NV
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"The Export-Import Bank has the support of two groups that rarely see eye to eye—the chamber of commerce and labor unions. Today I got a letter from the National Association of Manufacturers, as did every other Senator. It says: The National Association of Manufacturers—we refer to it as NAM—the largest manufacturing association in the United States, representing manufacturers in every industrial sector in all 50 States, urges us to support the Export-Import Bank Reauthorization Act."
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| Supreme Court Review |
May 14, 2012 |
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Patrick Leahy, D-VT
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"When I watched the arguments, I saw a Chief Justice that day who I thought seemed well aware of the significance of this decision. Chief Justice Roberts had not been appointed when the Court intervened in the Presidential election of 2000, but he certainly saw the reaction to that decision in Bush v. Gore, a 5-to-4 decision that the country viewed as partisan. In fact, many in the country felt that five people on the Supreme Court decided a Presidential election that was actually for the person who got less votes than the one they said lost. That decision was unprecedented. In a shocking admission, the Court itself said that it should never be considered precedent or cited in the future. That decision shook the confidence of the American people in the Supreme Court and, as Justice Stevens observed at the time, the loser in that decision was “the Nation’s confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law.” That activism undermined the reputation of the Court as fair and impartial."
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| Securing American Jobs Through Exports Act Of 2012—Motion To Proceed |
May 10, 2012 |
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Maria Cantwell, D-WA
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"I have great respect for the Senate. But there are some times when the Senate does not get to work out a deal, and we are presented with something that has been worked out by the House of Representatives. We can go back to what the majority leader said, how we got in this spot; that is, objecting to every motion to proceed, objecting to every motion to proceed. Pretty soon all the work stacks up. We try to move legislation and every motion is objected to. So the consequence is we run out of time and we run out of a way to get to a compromise."
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