| Parliamentary Inquiries |
May 16, 2013 |
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Jared Polis, D-CO
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"Is it correct that the House Republican budget maintains $1.2 trillion of tax increases included in the Affordable Care Act and $716 billion in cuts of Medicare; and, in fact, this very budget that we operate under would not have balanced without including these savings in taxes from ObamaCare?"
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| Agriculture Reform, Food, And Jobs Act Of 2013—Motion To Proceed |
May 15, 2013 |
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Jack Reed, D-RI
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"Now the House Republicans also passed a budget. The next step in regular order is to go to conference. Admittedly, the House Republican budget stands in stark contrast to our budget, and it is clear we have a lot of work to do to reach an agreement. For example, the House Republican budget calls for a total of $4.6 trillion in cuts, it voucherizes Medicare, it would leave the sequester in place, and it calls for tax cuts that benefit the wealthiest Americans."
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| Water Resources Development Act Of 2013 |
May 14, 2013 |
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Tim Kaine, D-VA
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"The answer was: No. I want you to vote for my amendment, but I am still going to vote against the budget. I am going to vote against it because the House will produce a Republican budget, the Senate will produce a Democratic budget, and then we can get those two budgets together and find compromise going forward."
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| The Budget |
May 8, 2013 |
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Harry Reid, D-NV
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"The Ryan Republican budget would lower taxes for the rich while the middle class foots the bill. That is in their budget."
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| Unanimous Consent Request—H. Con. Res. 25 |
May 8, 2013 |
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Debbie Stabenow, D-MI
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"We cannot get to that next step. We have had 46 days of trying to get to a point to get it done by working with the House, and all we get is objection after objection after objection. I appreciate that colleagues on the other side of the aisle who have voted for similar budgets to the Ryan Republican budget would have preferred if we would have eliminated Medicare. We didn’t do that, and we are not going to do that."
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