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menendez. >> no by proxy. >> mr. hatch. >> aye. >> mr. kyle. >> aye. >> mr. craigcrapo. >> aye. >> mr. kenzi. >> aye by proxy. >> mr. chairman. >> no. >>>> the clerk will tally the vote. >> the final tally is 10 ayes, 13 nays. >> the amendment fails. >> let me call-up amendment f one as modified. >> f1 modified. i am not sure that i have it. >> i will wait. >> ok. that would be a good thing to do. >> go ahead. let us proceed. >> this is a simple amendment like the other three simple amendments that i have offered on this bill. it sunsets in 2009 every tax increase in this bill. note that this is a different amendment from my earlier amendments, which only affected tax increases that increase costs for consumers. we have already had discussions on how the tax increases in this bill will be passed along to consumers and drive up out of pocket health care costs. i will now rehash that again. -- i will not rehash that again. congress -- in order for congress to enact the health care reform is to enact a tax increase. i do not believe that. at least, we can ensure

the middle class, to be able to do exactly what senator menendez was talking about. we need to continue to work. and i pledged to work with colleagues to continue to work and make sure that in the end when all of this is put together. this is truly affordable for middle class families and small businesses that we are all trying to help. i think it is very significant that we are talking about making sure that the exchange works, and not starting with any type of a personal responsibility. until we get through the first year to make sure that it is up and working. that is phased in. i think that is very important. certainly for me and i know others will watch that very, very closely to determine how it is going. if it is not working for families, we can always change it. the final thing is after hearing so many times over and over about how somehow folks would end up in jail if they do not have health care. i appreciate senator schumer including the clarification in his amendment. you know, i find it really unfortunate in this country today when we talk about people g

robert menendez, new jersey. chuck schumer, new york, kent conrad, sharon brown -- how much time you have? with us now is a 25 year veteran of policy, in the past she has worked with two massachusetts democrats, left side of things. president obama campaign of a public option. that is what he said we would have, that is what we said we wanted. >> it is politics, pure and simple. the reality is that a public option will be provided by private insurance companies, just like nationally. they are going to have one right over here, they cannot afford things, then they will charge a higher rate. that position says that i have to charge you more because i have to pay for everyone else. they do not want to have to show that they can provide the same care for 1% of the population and not everyone else. shepard: in a capitalist system, which you could argue we are in, if we are in a capitalist system and one organization is operating not-for-profit and everything else operate for profit, how can the for-profit companies co

i would say that i would agree with senator bingaman, senator menendez and so many others who have talked bewe should make the insurance more affordable by increasing the subsidy that was not fiscally possible to stay within the constraints that we have in this committee. hopefully we can make them better as we move forward in the process. but if we can't do that, it is unfair to put the entire onus on the middle-class individual family, and this removes it. c.b.o. has scored the entire amendment as generating modest savings. about two million people, same as before, will not be on the rolls on 019 without the amendment. if you have a high income, all plans will be at your income level, so you will be ok. with that, let me call on my colleague, senator snow, who will discuss the penalty stretch-out and waiver, and the g.a.o. report that was added at her request. >> i want to thank you, mr. chairman and thank my colleague, senator schumer for working on some modifications on the individual mandate and the penalty that were candidate from the chairman's mark. i know the chairman's mark was

joining us for more on this is democratic strategist alicia menendez and republican strategist doug hydeey are talking about notion that former treasury secretary henry paulson said on october 14th the banks were, quote, healthy and just accepting this money for the good of the american economy. was that really the case? >> well, according to this report, it's not and i think this gives us a good moment to pause and thank the obama administration for putting in the type of oversights that have led to this type of report and type of the oversights in the future might stop from getting this bad but the report is not good. >> doug, i guess you're not ready to thank the obama administration right now after looking at this? >> the reality is businesses don't really accept anything for the benefit of the good of everybody. they do it for the benefit of their shareholders and that's really why you look at people and who have bank of america stock, people who work for bank of america, they are really concerned about what is going right now. concerned about the continuity of were their company be

we would like to have senator menendez and others involved in that process. whenever you do this type of legislation, there may be some opposition. we just don't know yet until we start to move the bill for the process. i can think of some people who might be opposed to it but i think in the and, my sense is that there will be very little, if any, opposition to this legislation. is a matter of us trying to get it right. >> very briefly -- whenever we impose the possibility of losing highway funding if you do not do a certain action, there is, of course, in some quarters, a strong reticence to that. i understand that that should not be done as quickly as we turn. the government should not be ordering every single when issues rise, particularly as we travel not just with our state but between states, it continuously raise the number of fatalities in our country which has a cost, not only to families who are left behind but also costs to our society as a whole. the half a million injuries have enormous health consequence and a consequence in terms of the cost of

isn't this like the menendez brothers being family counselors?us. >> let's say your company is doing too well, you want your sales to go down, you bring him in. >> i think being a motivational speaker is a lot like asking adam lambert who he likes in the patriots-steelers game. >> that went right over my head. the seminar includes rudy giuliani and colin powell. i thought colin powell didn't hang around with these thugs anymore. >> i think the greatest speech maker ever and he stinks. >> i have to take issue with that. first of all, bush did too many things that were bad, let's face it. i would rather have somebody who doesn't do anything, oh, let's invade a country, let's take your rights away. let's invade a country. >> what rights have been taken away? no rights have been taken away. >> he wanted war and he got a war. he got what he wanted. >> let's go have a war, that's a good motivation. >> that was just on the blow, he had a war for no reason? we're going to go back to that again. >> you know it's true. >> his first speech is going to be in

isn't this like the menendez brothers being family counselors?us. >> let's say your company is doing too well, you want your sales to go down, you bring him in. >> i think being a motivational speaker is a lot like asking adam lambert who he likes in se patriots-steelers game. >> that went right over my head. the seminar includes rudy giuliani and colin powell. i thought colin powell didn't hang around with these thugs anymore. >> i think the greatest speech maker ever and he stinks. >> i have to take issue with that. first of all, bush did too many things that were bad, let's face it. i would rather have somebody who doesn't do anything, oh, let's invade a country, let's take your rights away. let's invade a country. >> what rights have been taken away? no rights have been taken away. >> he wanted war and he got a war. he got what he wanted. >> let's go have a war, that's a good motivation. >> that was just on the blow, he had a war for no reason? we're going to go back to that again. >> you know it's true. >> his first speech is going to be in