Senate Proceeding 12-14-10 on Dec 14th, 2010 :: 3:05:50 to 3:07:55
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Amy Klobuchar: floor. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. ms. klobuchar: madam president, i also want to acknowledge the new senator from illinois and thank him for the time. but i also wanted to acknowledge the senior senator from illinois who's here who just spent the last few months serving honorably on the debt commission on the national commission on fiscal responsibility.

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Speech By: Amy Klobuchar

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Amy Klobuchar: they came out with some recommendations. and a number of us in this chamber, while we may not support everyone and disagree with some of them, think that that is something that we must pursue. as they wrote in their report every modest sacrifice that we refuse to make today only forces far greater sacrifices of hope and opportunity upon the next

3:06:30 to 3:06:50( Edit History Discussion )

Amy Klobuchar: generation. and they're right. the longer we wait, the more wrenching the choices become. and guess who's going to have to make those painful choices, it's our children and our children's children. but you know what else, madam president, it's ourselves. as the senator from california pointed out about an hour ago,

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Amy Klobuchar: 6% -- 6% of our spending is just interest on that debt. so there are some commonsense suggestions that are in that report. that's what we have to do next year. when you look at this idea, people making over $250,000, the fact that just going back to the clinton levels -- the clinton tax levels when our country was incredibly prosperous that that

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Amy Klobuchar: would bring in $700 billion to bring down the debt, that's why the majority of the people in this country -- the vast majority of the people in this country want to see that as one of the options for the long term. for the short term right now we know that our country is still in a fragile state. we know that we can't sock the middle class with a $3,000 tax increase, we know that we have

3:07:34 to 3:07:54( Edit History Discussion )

Amy Klobuchar: people unemployed through no fault of their own that are still unemployed. that's why we're passing this bill tonight. beyond, that as we go to the next year, we must work together as you see what's going on in a bipartisan way to put a plan in place. because the market will respond to that. it will be good to our economy. we will show we mean business. and we won't turn into one of those countries overseas that is

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Amy Klobuchar: experiencing what they're