[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 130 (Friday, September 24, 2010)]
[Senate]
[Page S7438]
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  CREATING AMERICAN JOBS AND ENDING OFFSHORING ACT OF 2010--MOTION TO 
                                PROCEED

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that at 3 p.m., 
Monday, September 27, the Senate proceed to consideration of Calendar 
No. 578, S. 3816, a bill to create American jobs and prevent the 
offshoring of such jobs overseas.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection?
  Mr. McCONNELL. I object.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Objection is heard.


                             Cloture Motion

  Mr. REID. I now move to proceed to Calendar No. 578, S. 3816, and I 
send a cloture motion to the desk.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The cloture motion having been 
presented under rule XXII, the clerk will report the motion to invoke 
cloture.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

                             Cloture Motion

       We, the undersigned Senators, in accordance with the 
     provisions of rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, 
     hereby move to bring to a close debate on the motion to 
     proceed to Calendar No. 578, S. 3816, the Creating American 
     Jobs and Ending Offshoring Act of 2010.
         Richard J. Durbin, Charles E. Schumer, Tom Harkin, 
           Sheldon Whitehouse, Debbie Stabenow, Barbara A. 
           Mikulski, Roland W. Burris, Bernard Sanders, Tom Udall, 
           Mark Begich, Daniel K. Akaka, Jeff Merkley, Benjamin L. 
           Cardin, Edward E. Kaufman, Christopher J. Dodd, Arlen 
           Specter, Sherrod Brown, Amy Klobuchar, Byron L. Dorgan, 
           Barbara Boxer.

  Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent that the vote on the motion to 
invoke cloture occur at 11:30 a.m., Tuesday, September 28, with the 
mandatory quorum being waived.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so 
ordered.
  The Senator from Kentucky.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, the majority leader has generously 
consented to allow me to make a few observations before I must leave 
the Chamber.
  My view is the majority has literally wasted months in the Chamber 
trying to tell the private sector what to do instead of providing 
certainty to help them make investment decisions. This bill we will be 
voting on cloture on Tuesday will do nothing to create jobs in our 
country. Most of the factories the Durbin bill is trying to prevent 
from moving overseas are not traveling overseas to sell back to the 
American market but are moving there to gain competitive advantage over 
foreign companies in foreign markets. In doing so, they create more 
jobs and more opportunity in the United States. The nonpartisan Joint 
Committee on Taxation has informed my staff that this bill, similar to 
so many others produced by the majority this year, will increase the 
deficit by nearly $1 billion, violating the majority's own pay-go 
rules.
  It is my hope we will not decide to debate and pass this bill. I 
think it would be a step in the wrong direction.
  I yield the floor.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The majority leader.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, my friend is correct. There has been a lot 
of wasted time in the Senate. But it hasn't been because of the 
majority. We have had to answer to more than 100 filibusters, which 
have eaten up weeks and weeks of our time, when we should have been 
talking about jobs for the American people. For my friend to stand on 
the floor and say the continual exporting of jobs is good for the 
country is beyond the ability of someone to believe. Not only does the 
fact that these jobs are transferred to another country create 
tremendous job losses, but we give these people tax benefits for doing 
so. It is hard to comprehend how such a policy ever came to be. This is 
an effort to stop it.
  We have some very commonsense ideas. One says: If you want to come 
back to the United States and you want to create some jobs here, we 
will give you a tax benefit for that. But we do say that if you are 
going to tear down a plant, an operation in America, you should not get 
a tax benefit for doing that, as now exists. Right now, if you move a 
wood manufacturing company out of the State of Washington, tear down 
your plant and move it to China, you get a tax break for that. The 
American people don't want that. Finally, outsourcing these jobs is the 
third part of our legislation--shipping jobs overseas, terminating the 
jobs here and then making the product over there cheaply and then 
sending the product back here and you get a tax break for it. The 
American people don't understand that. They don't understand it because 
it is illogical. That is what the debate will be about.
  We will start the debate Monday afternoon. Everyone should be aware 
that we will have a live quorum at about 7 o'clock on Monday evening. I 
explained to the minority leader yesterday that we were going to do 
that so it is no surprise. Then we will see if during the evening we 
need any more. We will try to set up the debate in a constructive 
fashion. It is a debate we on this side relish.
  Mr. President, I now withdraw my motion to proceed.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The motion is withdrawn.

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