only 23 have cast more votes than chuck grassley. no other current senator has gone as long as he has without missing a sinl vote --, single vote, happened missed a vote in 19 years. this year senator grassley marks 54 years of public service to the people of the hawk eye state. while some members of cong have a tendency to lose touch with their stits, chuck grassley has always worked hard to make sure he never did that. he has made it his business to stay connected to the oaks fowlkes back home by holding at least one town hall meeting a year in all of iowa's 99 counties. and by responding to every letter, postcard, e-mail or phone call. and of course we're all familiar with his tweets, much like the senator himself, they're truly one of a kind. senator grassley also stays close to the land by working his family farm. he does that even while keeping up his duties here in washington. he may ab u.s. senator but he has always preferred to be known as a farmer from buttler county. this is -- visitors to the farm say it's not uncommon to

grassley: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. grassley: i have asked for the opportunity to speak now. the presiding officer: the senate is in a quorum call. mr. grassley: i ask the caution of the -- calling of the quorum be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. grassley: mr. president, before i go to the reason i come to the floor, which is a department of defense matter, i would like to thank several of my colleagues who earlier this afternoon recognized me for casting the 11,000th vote yesterday, and so i want to acknowledge the fine things that senator reid, the majority leader said, senator mcconnell, the republican leader said, senator stabenow, senator harkin and senator leahy, and i want to -- them to know that i appreciate very much the recognition that i got. i hope it's nothing special because i hope i am just exhibiting the work ethic of iowans generally, which i think are very -- work very hard. and if i could, if it's not impossible, i'd

grassley saying that this paints a disturbing picture. he says the department of energy is writing checks to a company literally as it is declaring bankruptcy. he's also saying that a private company and federal grant recipient has provided now more disclosure about its operations and assurances will intellectual property and national security than our own department of energy has provided. grassley saying he's gotten this information directly from a123. not the department of energy. this all plays into the controversial over whether the department of energy or federal government ought to be funding some of these alternative energy start-ups which have not had such a great track record. >> eamon javers, thank you. >>> welcome back to "power lunch." all this week on cnbc we have been focusing on entrepreneurs. the folks that may help lead the struggling economy back to a greater level of vitality. but a stunning report from deloitte out just today shows that the united states may be in danger of losing its edge as the best place for entrep

senator chuck grassley putting out new information stayed. grassley a republican in washington says saying that a123 received a grant from the federal government, the department of energy, on the same day that it filed for bankruptcy. grassley releasing this information in a letter from the company to the senator. we skpd the department of energy about this. here's what they said. they said the energy department takes its responsibility to be good stewards of the taxpayers' money very seriously. funds are only disbursed to a company for work already completed toward the ultimate goal of the department's grant. and larry, i should say that this was a grant for work that had already been completed. the invoice following the work and the payment following that. so the work had been done well in advance of the bankruptcy date but nonetheless awkward politically at least that the check arrived on the same day the company went bankrupt. >> many thanks to eamon javers. general david petraeus testifying for congress now says he knew almost immediatel

here on capitol hill had to do with the ranking member of the senate judiciary committee, chuck grassley is now asking the justice department as well as the fbi to provide all the names of the individuals who were involved in the investigation into the cia director and also, those who signed off on the court orders that gave investigators access to his e-mail account, eric. >> thank you very much, catherine herridge. representative peter king, member of the house intelligence committee who was in the closed door hearing and questioned david petraeus directly, spoke about what he heard from petraeus. >> i had a very different recollection of what he told us on september 14th. he barely mentioned terrorism at that time. he deemphasized it, he emphasized the video, he emphasized spontaneous demonstration and as far as the terrorist questions, he really minimized it totally. and also on the talking points, megan, which came from the cia, the famous talking points that supposedly susan rice relied on, they said talk came from cia, specifically mentioned al-qaeda and that al-qaeda was involved

. >> senator grassley, have you hit a big deer lately?he deer didn't make it, but was it delicious? >> i love you back, and we've got more work to do. >> one more year! one more year! >> never imagine such a thing as funny. president obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans. never imagine such a thing as funny. i'm not particular precisely of what i said but i stand by whatever i said, whatever it was. >> we are closing in on the final 48 hours of this campaign. the president is speaking live in dubuque, iowa, his third of four stops today. and with him and his challenger in a frenzied sprint to win voters in those crucial battleground states. for the president that means shoring up support in the midwest states that backed him with great enthusiasm in 2008. with events in iowa, ohio, and wisconsin already today. and it was in the key battleground ohio that the president lambasted his challenger's latest effort to seize the medal of change. >> governor romney, he is a very talented salesman. so in this campaign, he has tried

. >> good evening, the regular republican on the senate judiciary committee, senator grassley, wants them to know who signed off on the fbi investigation and mon storing david petraeus's personal e-mail and what is the relationship with his biographer came to light after a fbi background check. and the department official under president bush said that they seemed to be investigating the benghazi controversy with the same particular approach he used in the fast and furious gun running scandal. >> senator grassley's questions covered a very broad scope from the beginning of investigation throughout it up until its conclusion and it seems to me they want to get to the who, what, when and where, about why they started and. >> they recently defend the decision not to make the notification. >> had we made the determination, na that a threat existed. we of course would have made that known to the president and also to the appropriate members on the hill. >> and the head of the house and senate intelligence committee recently seen this no note-- >> and catherine herridge with the latest, th

mistake in des moines a week ago today, when it was very much colder-- >> that's the senator chuck grassley from iowa. we're awaiting mitt romney's remarks and he's going to be appearing that shortly about 1:30 and when that happens we'll bring you the governor's remarks live, of course, a busy day of campaigning. lots of stops in the key swing states and iowa happens to be one of them and it's a busy news weekend here, certainly, covering the candidates and what it's going to take to win come election day, moving along now, it's the storm after the storm. more than 900,000 people still don't have power in new york and new jersey, and now there's news, another winter storm is on the way. and joining us now from the campaign trail where he's stumping very hard for governor mitt romney, former new york mayor rudy guiliani. mr. mayor, thank you for joining us today. >> very nice to be with you. >> uma: let's talk about what's happening in new york and new jersey. i know a lot of people are suffering there, people have been coping with long gasoline lines, a lot of places don't have gas, people

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. >> senator grassley, have you hit a big deer lately? the deer didn't make it, but was it delicious? >> i love you back, and we've got more work to do. >> one more year! one more year! >> never imagine such a thing as funny. president obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans. never imagine such a thing as funny. i'm not particular precisely of what i said but i stand by whatever i said, whatever it was. >> we are closing in on the final 48 hours of this campaign. the president is speaking live in debuk, iowa, his third of four stops today. and with him and his challenger in a frenzied sprint to win voters in those crucial battleground states. for the president that means shoring up support in the midwest states that backed him with great enthusiasm in 2008. with events in iowa, ohio, and wisconsin already today. and it was in the key battleground ohio that the president lambasted his challenger's latest effort to seize the medal of change. >> governor romney, he is a very talented salesman. so in this campaign, he has tried

even chuck grassley, senator grassley played a major role in passing that law, said later when he been asked why didn't pay for, he said at the time, not pay for things. which is one of the single most outrageous statements in the last 10 years but that was the largest expansion in a generation. it was a really big deal. it wasn't paid for. i was working a lot on transparency at the time, was one of the least read and most ill put together bills bills by the congress has ever passed for at least the last four years or something. and i think it's worth communism even if you believe every time isgrigg. my mother benefited everything. i think we should acknowledge that it was not pay for and is not the way we want to do these kind of programs. and i don't know, i just think it's a point of fact, big deal and ought to be counted. and i think that cpb the chart is misleading and wrong. >> okay, i've looked at the cbp chart, though not recently. i know we had a similar chart and it certainly included that increase in spending. it didn't get its own section but it was in the sort of increased

the letter from grassley breaks down the request into ten gat tore reese. whether the affair with his biographer was detected or missed by the fbi in their background check for the cia job as well as any illegal thoerts that showed the f.b.i. and other departments were not required to notify the president. >> it looks like koeupbgs interested in a pretty wide ranging investigation. senator grassley's question cover a very wide scope from the beginning of the investigation, throughout it up until its conclusion. it seems to me they want to get to the who, what what, when, where and why as to why congress was not notified. >> on the most recent statements the attorney general said it was his call not to make the notifications. >> we made the determination as we were going through the matter that there was not a threat to national security. had we made the determination that a threat to national security existed we would of course have made that known to the president and also to the appropriate members on the hill. >> one analyst told fox that this investigat

grassley has been enough of an attack dog. same thing with hatch -- that i do not think they will have any problems continuing. do what they are doing. >> hatch, i think, suggested when he was running in his highly contested primary that he would be less of a lucy who see deal cutter than he was for much of his career. >> he also said he knew was never running again. >> that is true. after he won the state party convention, which is how they do it in utah -- the primary is sort of secondary -- he came out and told us back in august at the republican convention that he was very committed to tax reform, he wanted to work on it. max baucus, chairman of the finance committee, also committed. it could be interesting. now that hatch has said i am not going to run again and he got past that, he could kind of do what he wants to do. he could do the deal maker that he is and wants to be. we will see. it depends on how much flak he gets from other people. >> one thing i wanted to talk about before we go to questions is the overall tone

we have just learned that chuck grassley, the ranking member of the senate judiciary committee, has septemberr to attorney general eric holder and robert mueller pressing for details about the role of their departments in the investigation. among his questions, why wasn't the president informed of the investigation, which began in the summer, before last week? today, attorney general eric holder defended his action. >> we felt very secure in the knowledge that a national security threat did not exist that warranted the sharing of that information with the white house or with the hill. but when we got to a point in the investigation, it was very late in the investigation, after a very critical interview occurred on the friday before, we made that disclosure when we got to that point to share the information, we did so. >> but did they do so soon enough? lewis gutierrez joins us now, the intelligence committee and republican representative jason chaffitz. let me just start with you, representative gutierrez. are you satisfied with attorney general holder's explanation as to why he did not tell

i'm thinking, i guess, most about chuck grassley, the now newly-installed judiciary and orrin hatch atfinance. >> i think, i think both of them have established their bona fides there over the past couple of years. i think that they'll be fine. grassley has been enough of an attack dog, um, same thing with hatch that i don't think that they will have any problems, you know, continuing. doing what they're doing. >> hatch, i think, suggested when he was running in his highly-contested primary this year that he would be, he would be less of the sort of loosey-goosey deal cutter that he was for much of his career, sort of huing to republican orthodoxy on finance. he also said he was never running again -- >> that's true. but, you know, after he won the state party convention which is how they do it in utah, they don't really do -- the primary is sort of secondary, he came out and told us back in august at the republican convention that he was very committed to tax reform, he wanted to work on it. max but a us, who's the chairman of the finance committee, also very committed. so it could be

in this two page letter senator grassley wants the fbi and justice department who signed off on the fbinvestigation. what is the relationship with his buying geafer first came to light a year ago background check of general petraeus for the position. monitor petraeus' personal email that is a high threshold to meet. >> we really need to make a probable cause type showing in other words you need to show there is a need for this information. that you have reasonable cause to believe that there may be unlawful activity or you might be uncovering information that could lead to unlawful activity you also need to show you can't get the information through normal needs. you are making a significant intrusion on privacy. >> based on the letter the senator seems to be investigating the benghazi controversy with the same meticulous approach he used during the fast and furious gun running scandal, jon. >> jon: any response from the justice department? >> the attorney general recently defended his decision not to make those notifications. we made the determination as we were going through the matte

when you look at the stimulus and health care and working with chuck grassley and olympia snow and allhe discussions about the grand bargain, he tried to create some bipartisanship. there was an abrupt change after the debt ceiling showdown last year. he's more combat itch since then and more willing to call out republicans on his differences with them. i wonder if he's re-elected tonight do you have a sense which two bahamas we would see in a second term. >> i think in the second term you would see obama the academic. he's always going to be the kind of person who wants to reason with people. he's not combative and he's not very confrontational. that's what you saw in the first debate with mitt romney. he's not that type. i think what you will see and i think you will see this period from congress is there's more willingness for people to come together. now it won't be an issue of let's get him out and make him one term if he wins. let's make him a one-term president. now people will get down to business, and i don't think his leadership style will change at all. >> mary, love your gl

that list includes senate veterans chuck grassley, susan collins of maine as well as wisconsin' ron johnson, mark kurt, rob portman, pat toomi, marco rubio and kelly ayotte. nevada's dean heller was the only to win in a blue state in the 2012 cycle. he narrow will he won over shelly berkeley despite the president winning the state by six. they have a none of the above. susan collins was the only other senator on the list to face voters while president obama was on the ballot. she won her third it term in 2008. the other seven were all elected or re-elected in the big republican wave of 2010. could republicans take back some of that territory in 2014 is this joining me now political analyst and editor and publisher of the cook political report, charlie cook. charlie, we have a senate announcement today. this is happenstance. we planned this last week and we can talk about 2014 and jay rockefeller. >> at least shelly capito had the decency to wait until after thanksgiving. >> mike brown announced two weeks ago he was running in 2014. >> see, i wasn't paying attention then. >> fair enough. is

this is a door that was opened by chuck grassley, the republican veteran member of the finance committee a few months ago saying that republicans needed to accept an absolute increase in revenue. that is to say, static revenue in budget lingo in washington, in addition to revenue from growth. and if that's where john boehner has gone, it sounds to me like that's where he's gone, that is promising for the negotiations. >> eamon javers is with us as well. eamon, do you agree with john harwood's assessment? is that what you heard as well? >> yeah. i think john has really nailed it here. i think you have to go at the exact words that speaker boehner said when he was talking about what he is opposed to here when he's talking about what he doesn't like. he keeps saying we're against raising tax rates. he doesn't not say we're a against raising taxes. i think there is an important nuanced argument here that the speaker is making which is that he is against raising the overall rates but he's not opposed to raising more net revenue in to the federal government by closing some of those loopholes,

look at the negotiations with chuck grassley. how many months did those drag on for?nowe said she wouldn't do it because no other republican would. >> they had more time to try and enough was at stake, and the bill is significant enough that they should have made more of an effort because now managing political damage, including the very irony of my piece and why i'm here is that they have no political sport. conservatives, yes. and i'll agree with you on the other point. the conservatives have not helped. by abandoning some of these ideas and simply branding this thing a government takeover of health care, which is equally as unhelpful to all of us, hasn't done them a bit of good as well. by even the way they've branded this as obamacare, as if that were pejorative, as if that were a negative shows that there's political disregard and disrespect for the president. and i think that neither side really is blameless in something where we really, really all have a stake in health care working better and to have -- turn this into political football where one side wins all

if that was not for darrell issa and senator chuck grassley, we would know nothing about what was goinghere. melissa: i know there are a lot of viewers following this very closely. i wonder what% of the population is not. lou: i think there is a sizable percentage. melissa: i love that we can see blue every day. [talking over each other] lou: how many junkyards have you seen recently? melissa: just on cartoons. you are going to have douglas holtz eakin on this evening. lou: i am thankful for your continued support. lori: it is quarter tale. time for nicole petallides at the stock exchange. nicole: a day where the s&p is up 1.5%. let's take a close look at these names. we will look first at lowe's. they hit a 52 week high today. they came out with sales and profits that beat the street. they have been doing job cuts. they have been expanded. the other side of the coin is that their storm sales still live. they really are second compared to home depot. of 6.5%. take a look at tyson. tyson foods within of arrow in leading the s&p 500. back to you. lori: thank you, as always. the move would

grassley has been enough of an attack dog. same thing with hatch -- that i did not think they will have any problems continuing. do what they are doing. >> hatch, i think, suggested when he was running in his highly contested primary that he would be less of a lucy who see deal cutter than he was for much of his career. >> he also said he knew was never running again. >> that is true. after he won the state party convention, which is how they do it in utah -- the primary is sort of secondary -- he came out and told us back in august at the republican convention that he was very committed to tax reform, he wanted to work on it. max baucus, chairman of the finance committee, also committed. it could be interesting. now that hatch has said i am not going to run again and he got past that, he could kind of do what he wants to do. he could do the deal maker that he is and wants to be. we will see. it depends on how much flak he gets from other people. >> one thing i wanted to talk about before we go to questions is the overall tone

separately, the ranking member of the senate judiciary committee, chuck grassley n a letter to the attorneyeneral and the fbi director is asking for a detailed briefing before the end of next week on the legal authorities obtained to monitor the former cia director's e-mail by the fbi as well as the legal analysis that allowed them to conclude that they did not need to notify congress, nor the white house of this ongoing investigation with national security implications, jon. jon: katherineer ridge in washington, thank you. jenna: now we turn to afghanistan where nearly 70,000 u.s. troops continue to fight today. afghan president hamid karzai is accusing the u.s. of violating an agreement on transferring detainees. this comes as leaders in kabul oppose offering immunity to american forces after that 2014 withdrawal deadline. this is a key sticking point in negotiations with the u.s., and we saw a similar debate emerge as we were withdrawing or drawing down in iraq. conor powell is live in kabul with more. >> reporter: well, jenna, this is just the latest in a long line of disputes between p

this as senator chuck grassley presses the defendants justice and the fbi on their roles in david petraeus' extramarital affair. catherine herridge with us from the beginning. what do the conflicting statements tell us? >> reporter: thursday in a classified session, the director of national intelligence and his counterparts came to capitol hill and said they didn't know who was responsible for changess to those cia talking points that minimized the role of terrorists in the attacks. now a spokesman says the intelligence community says the intelligence communities was behind the changes that stripped out changes including al qaeda. the. lawmakers were given a completely different account of what happened. quote, chairman rogers looks forward to discussing this new explanation with director clapper as soon as possible to understand how the dni reached this conclusion and why leaders of the intelligence community testified they were unaware of who changed the talking points. this is a very serious charge because testimony on the hill last week is considered sworn testimony. bill: what is the

lieutenant governor reynolds, thank you for your help and senator grassley and congressman latham and shoutout to the des moines register. thanks for your endorsement. [ applause ] >> i have to admit, i always like listening to the oak ridge boys. i appreciate their generosity being here this morning. boy, thanks to you so very much for your energetic welcome. that's really something. you know, your voices with being heard all over the nation this morning. and they're heard loud and clear in my heart as well. i want to thank you. [ cheering and applause ] special thanks to you that have been doing all the work out there for my campaign by making calls from our victory centers, by putting up a sign in your yard or someone else's yard. [ laughter ] by convincing a co-worker to get behind paul ryan and me. now, let's make sure that we get evan we know out to vote on tuesday. got to get that done. >> so that's governor mitt romney campaigning hard with just two days to go. a lot of what we've been covering recently involves the kind of things he's talking about. how to get that math to wo

and yet i found myself in chuck grassley's kitchen in iowa with the doctor saying, we need to put ini moved them into the geisinger system. and feeling guilty in a way, i said, okay, put in the feeding tube, and that was a stupid decision in the end. because -- >> why? >> -- when they lose their appetites, they're telling you something. they're telling you it's time -- you know, it's time for me to go. >> how does a child, even if that child is 55 or 60 years old, how does a child make that decision? >> well, it's always going to be tough. but if you have people who are being candid with you rather than, you know, most doctors are kind of, you know, high priests. they're the captain of their ship. and they don't -- >> are you saying some doctors intentionally lie? >> no, i'm saying that it's hard to get accurate information out of them because they're afraid of malpractice. >> yeah. >> right. >> it's in their best interests to keep them alive and keep on performing tasks. >> and that's their job. >> and it also fits into the hippocratic spirit of being a doctor. but if we're going to

. >> did not include any budget impact or for that, even chuck grassley, senator grassley who play add major role in passing that law, said later when he was asked why didn't we pay for it, he said at the time it was dumb not to pay for things. one of the single most outrageous statements in the last ten years. that was a really big deal, and it wasn't paid for. i also was working a lot on legislative transparency at the time. it was one to have least-read and most -- one of the least-read and most ill put together bills that the congress has ever passed, or at least in the last 40 years or something. and i think it's worth, you know, even if you believe every dime the medicare part d plan p spends is great, my mother benefited and everything, i think we should at least acknowledge it was not paid for, and it's not the way we want to do these kind of programs. i just think as a point of fact it was a big deal, and it ought to be counted, and i think that cbpp chart is misleading and wrong. >> okay, i can't -- i've looked at the cbp chart, though not recently. i know we at c. a.p. did a

senators blunt, boozman, brown of massachusetts, chambliss, cochran, collins, crapo, grassley, heller, hutchison, isakson, kirk, lugar, moran, murkowski, rubio, snowe, and wicker, in addition to all of my democratic cosponsors. this is also a bill that has the support of the american cancer society, the pancreatic cancer action network, the lung cancer alliance, and the american association for medical research as well as the american association of medical colleges. what the bill does is asks that the national institutes of health convene and evaluate a discussion about what we call recalcitrant cancers. this actually began as a pancreatic cancer research bill, but it became apparent that there were other cancers we group now in what we call recalcitrant cancers in that they have not responded to treatment in research and they remain cancers for which there has been little progress in survivability. and because they are so deadly and so lethal, we're trying to direct a little bit more attention out of n.i.h. towards research on these cancers. for me, this has a personal component, as

is there some way you can modify the way the guard works to senator grassley? >> what we have done, what i try to tell everyone is that it's not going to be like it has been. i don't think the guard can sustain it. this goes back to employers. employers are okay because of the wars in iraq and afghanistan. when the wars are over, it is more difficult to get the employers to agree on long periods at the time. you have to understand that going in. that's what i'm trying to do is say how we sustain this level of experience we have gained in the guard reserve. as we put the army generation model, we are going to rotate them through that, and allows uncertain. to increase the amount of time and get a higher level of training. that is the concept. even that can be difficult. you have put everything in perspective. again, it's about how much time they have in order to prepare and how much are the employers willing to put up with, and how much when people sign-up in the guard come we have to balance all of those. we need a strong national guard. we need one that provid

the single largest tax cut was the extension of the alternative minimum tax which came from chuck grassley who ultimately voted against the plan. three and half weeks in of a single republican in the house spoke for it, and three of them in the senate not including those that have most of their amendments added and then we move on from there to not a single one voting for any significant initiative. that represents a difference in. it represents a willingness to try to figure out how you can solve some problems even if there are other places you want to stop and they did that with bush and other times but a real contrast between where the two parties are now. so there are no angels here, but we do have one party that is not that far from the midfield. although it has moved and the other party that is behind its post. >> i think the republicans are. i don't like the post freeman who decides where the middle of the field is and so a lot of republicans would probably say yes and now our failure to go there doesn't mean that we have changed but i think the problem that really on the republican

first say thank you to senators that have joined me in this effort, senator blumenthal, senator grassley, senator graham, senator blunt, senator johnson, senator levin, senator murray and senator moran who have cosponsored this resolution recognizing and supporting the goals of national adoption month, and in a variety of different ways, not only by passing this resolution, which we hope will be hotlined sometime in the very near future both through the senate and the house, but by participating in a variety of different events at home and here in washington to really raise awareness and call attention to the needs of so many -- first of all, to the awareness that there are, in fact, orphans in america. children who their parental rights have been terminated or children who have literally lost both parents and don't have an able or willing relative and are in great need of a family. and you know these children, mr. president, you've been very active in the issue of child welfare. so we have several events throughout this month. one of them is national adoption day. that's going to take p

judiciary committee but the chairman, whose amendment it is, and the ranking member, senator grassl grassley, have both approved this amendment and i would simply alert other senators that if they wish to speak on this amendment, for or against, that it is our intention to proceed to a vote on the leahy amendment following the speaking of senator paul and senator feinstein. so i would ask unanimous consent that we proceed in that way. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. levin: i thank the presiding officer. mrs. feinstein: i thank the distinguished chairman and i thank you, madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from california. mrs. feinstein: thank you very much. madam president, i am introducing an amendment which essentially was dealt with, a version of it was dealt with last year. the cosponsors of the amendment are senators paul, lee, coons, collins, lautenberg, gillibrand, and kirk. i ask unanimous consent to add senators tester, johnson of south dakota, saunders, whitehouse, and heller. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mrs. fein

grassley amendment number 3079. the barrasso amendment number 3082. the vitter amendment number 3087, as modified by changes at the desk. the klobuchar amendment number 31026789 the klobuchar amendment number 3105. murkowski amendment number -- i lost track -- 3135. the warner amendment number 3145. collins amendment number 3196, as modified by changes at the desk. the barrasso amendment number 3198. the klobuchar amendment number 3234. the reid amendment number 3244. the mccain amendment number 3247, as modified by changes at the desk. the alexander amendment number 3258. let me repeat that. the alexander amendment number 3258. the levin amendment number 3280. the begich amendment number 32 3290. mr. mccain: those have been cleared by our side. mr. levin: now i ask consent that these amendments be considered en bloc, the amendments be agreed to and the motion to reconsider be laid on the table. the presiding officer: is there objection? hearing no objection, so ordered. mr. levin: again, i thank the presiding officer. mr. mccain: mr. president, i'd a

grassley: thank you. this is pie bye no means an exhaustive list i'll put in the record but i believe they provide a good starting point for my colleagues who are interested in learning the truth about the impact of increasing taxes. or that taxes do have consequences. some good consequences, some bad consequences. you got to consider all of them. in sum, this research suggests that soaking the rich will only reduce incentives for work and entrepreneur, therebying reducing economic growth and i'll just give he give you some examples. it means for a couple deciding whether or not a spouse who left the work force should go back to work, taxes matter. it means that for an individual who is considering investing in his own human capital, investing their own human capital through education or training to increase their earning potential, taxes matter. for a small business owner considering hiring employees, purchasing equipment, or expanding their business, taxes matter. for an entrepreneur deciding whether or