Bluto

Ok then we should elect a new whip who can help you and has more time to dedicate to assisting you.

Nay

Mr. President 

I second the cloture motion.

I yield 

He's on indefinite leave a little different plus this was posted before his loa and we still have a whip don't we?

How is it i post in here and a day and a half later I still have no reply yet founding fathers game and the gop is flush with activity?

I suspect with the Senate Leader going on extended and undetermined amount of time we need to hold another vote?

Mr President,

I'd be willing to walk in if both Senate Leaders agree to leave nothing off the table and consider all viable options.

I yield.

Mr. President 

Nothing could be further from the truth than what the gentleman stated.  I would be willing to sit down personally with the party opposite and write out legislation that makes sense for all sides equally.  As Leo said in The West Wing "There was a freshman democrat who came to Congress 50 years ago. He turned to a senior Democrat and said, 'Where are the Republicans? I want to meet the enemy.' The senior Democrat said, 'The Republicans aren't the enemy. They're the opposition. The Senate is the enemy.'"  Leo concluded those days are over however i believe we can still shed our partisan blinders and still makes legislation that benefits all sides.  Earlier I suggested that we throw aside this bill and bipartisan language be used that benefits all and was ignored completely.  If we continue to ignore one another perhaps Leo was right that bipartisanship is largely dead but for what its worth i ran for office to accomplish something not get into pesky fights on the floor of this Senate which I have great respect for.  Let me go home to Washington state and show them what bipartisanship truly still can work that we can sit down and hammer out legislation that we can all be proud of.  Let's introduce legislation that both sides can feel like we've produced a win win scenario for the American people and keep eliminate partisan legislation and pork barrel buffets that only seek to divide ourselves and our country even further apart.

I yield back.

Actually a few.  

1) Why are Senate committees so dead with people not debating or voting.

2) Why are committee RM not more on the ball with promoting a strategy?

3) Same question for Whip and SML i feel like its a real laissez-faire attitude with a do anything you want but expect no support from leadership when the Senate should be rigorously controlled having some form of plan and a strong means of support for each other.  I can guarantee it takes more than campaigning to win elections but voters respond to strength and right now we look down right anemic.

Aye

Mr. President 

I move to lay the question aside.

I yield.

Mr. President,

I am considering passage of the amended bill yet I want to state we all want to see manufacturing jobs back but no matter how much we incentive manufacturing or place tarrifs on trade labor jobs will go where labor is cheap.  I don't want to face that reality anymore than the next person but it will be a reality no matter what legislation we pass.  We should be passing legislation to help provide job training and vocational school funding instead to prepare Americans for the future job market.   I know this does nothing for the baby boomer a few years away from the retirement they should have received but when we stumble we stand back up dust ourselves off and get back in the game.  This would be a much greater use of this Senate's time.

I yield back Mr. President.

Nooo @Harryplease change your mind 

Mr. President,

My concern is that forcing American goods and incentives for American business sounds wonderful in theory.  We all want to support American businesses when and where we can but incentiving American businesses will push up the cost of non American business and that cost will be felt most by the mother on food stamps whos living well below the poverty line or the disabled or senior citizen who depends on social security as their only source of income.  This is why I'm voting no.  The majority may feel free to stand here and call me un-American but voting down this legislation is one of the most patriotic things I can do.

I yield back Mr. President.

Great CNN gave some attention to my opt-out legislation here's what they forgot 1/2

24 EU Countries have some form of Opt-Out policy. Spain has the highest donor rates in the world. 2/2

Mike Kennedy for himself and others offer

A BILL

Concerning Organ Donation

Be it enacted by the US Senate and House of Representatives in congress assembled. 

That the general statutes be amended to adopt an "opt-out" or "presumed consent" policy instead of the current "express consent" law on organ donation. The new method enables all all Americans to become organ donors upon their deaths unless they join an official registry to opt out of organ donation.

Plain English Summary:

To prevent the death of roughly 8,000 citizens each year by increasing the availability of donations.

Upset the President signed off on Clean Energy Through Smarter Regulation Act.  This is simply deregulation masked to keep Americans from the truth.  Sometimes the President should use the stamp.

CS

@SamJacksonAR then I guess you'd support joining me to return the highest tax bracket to what it was in the 50s through 70s when the highest tax bracket paid closer to 75% tax instead  of 35% tax when America was prosperous?

Co Sponsored  eliminaing the Hyde Amendment.  My personal views may be more toward Pro Life but I'm here to represent Washington values not my own.

CS

How are we "tax and spend" liberals when we only want the top marginal tax rate they paid under such previous conservative presidents like Nixon and Reagan?

Income - $300,000

Starting Income - $300,000

Expenditures: $0

Total: $300,000

Aye

Aye