[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 20]
[Senate]
[Page 26901]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                           ECONOMIC STIMULUS

  Mr. BIDEN. Mr. President, before I speak on what I came over to the 
floor to discuss today, I would like to respond in 60 seconds to the 
Senator from Iowa.
  I don't think the stimulus bill is about partisanship. The stimulus 
bill is about whether we are going to take care of workers and 
displaced people because of the economy or whether we are going to 
reward corporate entities that are not going to reinvest instantly in 
the economy and stimulate the economy. How can we stimulate the economy 
if what we are going to be ``spending'' through either tax expenditures 
or direct expenditures doesn't spend out for 2 years or more?
  This is about fairness. The stimulus package I have seen so far is 
not remotely bipartisan and is in fact a serious mistake, based on what 
I know, unless there is some iteration in the last 12 hours of which I 
am unaware.

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