[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 96 (Thursday, June 24, 2010)]
[Senate]
[Page S5383]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           DEFICIT EXTENDERS

  Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, last night Senate Democrats 
introduced their latest version of the deficit extenders bill.
  It has one thing in common with every other version they have 
offered: it adds new taxes and over $30 billion to an already 
staggering $13 trillion national debt despite consistent bipartisan 
rejection of that idea.
  Both sides have offered ways to address the programs in this bill 
that both sides agree should be extended. And now we even agree on 
redirecting untimely and untargeted money from the failed stimulus 
bill. The only difference is that the Republican proposal reduces the 
deficit while the Democrat proposal adds to it.
  So the only thing Democrats are insisting on in this debate is that 
we add to the debt.
  The principle they are defending here is not some program. The 
principle Democrats are defending is that they will not pass a bill 
unless it adds to the debt.

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