mr. manchin: yes, sir. mr. tester: mr. president, senator manchin, i think everybody in this body wants to have real job creation in this country. i think they want to see this unemployment rate go down. i think most everybody realizes that if we can't get the unemployment rate to go down, the chances of paying off our debts and getting our budget under control is going to be severely diminished. you've offered potential amendments to 1723. i've offered potential taopldz 17 -- potential amendments to 1723 assuming we get cloture on this bill. in a previous life you were a governor. when i was in the state ledges slay taourbgs oftentimes -- state legislature, oftentimes money that came to the state government was very much appreciated. we took administrative costs off the top. it went anywhere from three to much, much higher than that as a percentage rate. was that done typically in west virginia? how would your amendment impact things like administrative cost or would you be able to get more money to the ground? mr. manchin

mr. manchin: mr. president, only a few people in your lifetime stand out as -- the presiding officer: the senate is in a quorum call. mr. manchin: i ask that we dispense with the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. the senator from virginia. mr. manchin: mr. president, only a few people in your lifetime stand out as people of the highest caliber, people who truly care about making the world a better place, not only for the present generation but also for the next generation and many generations to come. my dear friend, mike pushkar was one of those people. my wife gail and i consider ourselves extremely lucky to have even known a man of his caliber, let alone be friends with him for many, many years. mike passed away on saturday after a long battle with cancer. i first met mike in the early 1980's before the start of a football game in the then-gravel parking lot at the stadium, a place we truly loved. the generator in his motor home wasn't working, and luckily the generator in my b

mr. manchin from west virginia, ben nelson from nebraska and there may be others, too. >> red states up fore-election. >> it doesn't look as if this bill will get the 60 votes it needs to avoid a filibuster and probably will go down to defeat today. >> one of the things that they have done, harry reid, you know, they couldn't vote on it last week because they had to change the bill even though the president wanted them to vote on the old one. what they've done is added essentially a millionaire's tax. >> yes, they have. >> later today in coordination with occupy wall street, they're going to have a millionaire's march where they go up to the upper east side of manhattan and they're going to march to the homes of those five prominent new yorkers, jamie diamond from j.p. morgan chase, david koch, billionaire businessman, rupert murdoch, john paulson, the man who made the money in the housing crash. >> where are the democrats from that list of people that they would be marched on? the wall street demonstrators will parade uptown to midtown manhattan today, on the upper east side and essentiall

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