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Strengthening America's Economy
Senate Democrats Leading The Way
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February 4, 2008 - Senate Democrats held a press conference today to discuss Democrats' commitment to strengthening America's economy with a targeted and timely stimulus plan. Senators Max Baucus, Debbie Stabenow and Maria Cantwell joined seniors , veterans and members of the labor community in discussing the Senate Economic Stimulus package that will help boost the economy and provide benefits to unemployed workers, senior citizens, and disabled veterans.
"The vote the Senate will take on the Finance-passed stimulus bill is not a vote about politics. It's a vote about people: 20 million seniors, 250,000 disabled veterans, millions of Americans who are exhausting their unemployment benefits," said Senator Baucus, at the event this morning. Added Senator Stabenow, "The Senate package is the quickest, most effective way to boost consumer spending, encourage business investment, create jobs and avoid an economic downturn."
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The Senate will convene at 2:00 p.m. and will be in a period of morning business with Senators permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes each, with the time until 5:30 p.m. equally divided and controlled between the two Leaders or their designees. There will be no roll call votes on Monday.
Senators should be prepared to vote as early as 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday in relation to the following items: the McConnell amendment No. 4720 (energy) with a 60-vote threshold; the Reid amendment (energy) with a 60-vote threshold; passage of the flood insurance legislation (either S. 2284 or H.R. 3121); and cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 980 (collective bargaining).
If cloture on the motion to proceed is invoked, all post-cloture time will be yielded back and the motion to proceed will be agreed to.
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