Senate Proceeding 02-25-10 on Feb 25th, 2010 :: 7:50:50 to 8:00:40
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Jim Bunning: a third time and passed, and the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table. the presiding officer: is there objection? mr. durbin: i the presiding officer: objection is heard. mr. bunning: mr. chairman? the presiding officer: the senator from kentucky. mr. bunning: it's been a long

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Speech By: Jim Bunning

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Jim Bunning: night. it's called an ambush. that's what happened this evening. the consent that i was assured of was going to be that the

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Jim Bunning: senator from illinois offer the same -- i'm going to get it right. -- 30-day extension without an offset. he was going to offer it and i was going to have a chance to object. and we weren't going to stand around for 3 1/2 hours debating

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Jim Bunning: the issue. that's the understanding i had th the leader of democrats. now, i don't know what i have for tomorrow. i've been assured that the senator from illinois will offer

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Jim Bunning: the same amendment tomorrow morning and i'll have a chance to object if i so choose. but i want to assure the people that have -- that have watched this thing until 11. 45 -- and i have missed the kentucky-south carolina game

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Jim Bunning: that started at 9:00, and it's the only redeeming chance we had to beat south carolina since they're the only team that has beat kentucky this year. all of these things that we have talked about and all of the provisions that have been discussed -- the unemployment

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Jim Bunning: benefits, all these things -- if we would have taken the longer version of the -- of the job bill -- the job bill that was mutually agreed on, bipartisan bill that senator baucus and

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Jim Bunning: senator grassley agreed on, that the senator from nevada, the leader, withdrew his support from and brought his own narrowly scaped bill to the floor -- narrowly scoped bill -- $10 billion was not paid for,

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Jim Bunning: $5 billion was. so we have $10 billion immediately after we passed paygo. so we have a $10 billion bill that we talked about early on that passed. just passed.

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Jim Bunning: and now we have an extension. and, by the way, the bill that the baucus-grassley bill was totally and completely -- it's debatable according to the senator from illinois. but it was paid for. c.b.o. said it was paid for.

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Jim Bunning: at leasthat's what joint tax said too. because i happen to be on the same committee with those two gentlemen. we wouldn't have spent three hours-plus telling everybody in the united states of america that senator bunning doesn't

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Jim Bunning: give a damn about the people that are on unemployment, the doctors that i represent, that i didn't want to extend s.g.r.,

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Jim Bunning: that all of the other things -- cobra, flood insurance, small business loans and small business provisions. i feel sorry for the people in kentucky that live in east kentucky that may lose their satellite home viewer act for a day or two because they'll miss

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Jim Bunning: all those commercials that are going on, and tphoeu how they desperately want to watch those. but if they don't have cable, they won't be able to do it. this debate could have been

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Jim Bunning: completely changed had not the other side rammed through a bill, a ptisan bill over a bipartisan bill. you can't preach bipartisanism

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Jim Bunning: and practice partisanship. i don't give a darn how good you are at conning people, people see through it. if you think i'm kidding, go into your state and ask.

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Jim Bunning: the american people understand what's going on up here. that's whyhe congress and the senate have a 30% approval rating. even the president of the united states is higher than that.

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Jim Bunning: and his isn't good because it's below 50%. but i served in this body over at the house. i haven't had at long -- i had two years short of your house service senate illinois and two years short of your senate service.

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Jim Bunning: so i spent 12 and 12 in this body, 12 here and 12 in the house. and we're not conning the people in the united states about anything. they know what's going on.

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Jim Bunning: that's why they're madder than heck. they're tired of senators that talk out of both sides of their mouth. they're tired of people that have been appointed to positions that come before the congress's

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Jim Bunning: committees and don't speak the truth. if you think the tea party people are crazy, get them involved in your senate race. or get them against you when

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Jim Bunning: you're running. remember now, this all could have been changed had not the leader of the senate decided that a bipartisan compromise

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Jim Bunning: jobs bill was not as important as his partisan jobs bill that's just passed right before all of this debate. i just want to tell the people that have watched -- and i doubt if there are many right now --

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Jim Bunning: that i'm as interested in all those things that i've objected to because of no offsets. as the people that have spoken on the other side of the aisle or my good friend from tennessee

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Jim Bunning: or my good friend from alabama, this body should be and can be better than it has been. in my 24 years of service, i have never seen the congress of the united states perform as

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Jim Bunning: badly as we are performing presently. and it shows up. bipartisanship means input from both sides.

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Jim Bunning: not talking about it. doing it. that's the whole difference in what we've had here tonight.