coolidge's predecessor warren harding and harding's secretary of the treasury andrew mellon and this was also coolidge's secretary of the treasury slashed that to 56% and coolidge finished the job taking that marginal rate down to 20%. the results actually aided those of modest incomes. in 1920 the last year of woodrow wilson's administration 15.4% of all personal income taxes were paid by those everything $5,000 a year or less. by the time coolidge left office in 1929, that figure had shrunk to a minuscule zero, 0.4%. those earning 100 grand a year or more, the fat cats, had paid just 29.9% in 1920. by 1929 when coolidge left office, the figured had climbed to 56.2%. thus, when coolidge leaves office, 98% of the american people pay no income tax at all. quote, it is only a tiny exaggeration noted thomas b. silver to say that the coolidge and mellon removed the burden of income taxation from the backs of poor and working people. calvin coolidge cut federal income taxes four times. he produced a budget surplus each of the six years of his presidency. he could do all this because he no

warren g. harding.he conservative republican in the name of civil liberties and natural rights pardons a socialist who was prosecuted by progressive tests. i have a habit of looking at facts, there is a legal arguments, the american people liked this guy. this stands for and individualism and that is the excuse given. >> a footnote about the question of taft, when the court struck down, in 1923, by george sutherland -- [talking over each other] >> railing against natural riots. you get the vote for use in 1916. this looks like a republican phenomenon. if you look at this, you look at harold dickies, the democratic party -- [talking over each other] >> drawing on democrats worry mainly republican phenomenon? >> it is good to see you. [talking over each other] >> i thought i would be there in a couple weeks. most of the support from this very strong progressive wing of the republican party, it was unclear and we were confused -- which party would be the progressive party? the republicans or democrats. in

warren they must do more to go after them. we heard the general said the pakistanis are doing a better job. i'm having a hard time with the administration once the pakistanis to do in terms of the times square bombing. >> i think we have -- we are pleased with the level of cooperation we've got them from the pakistani government. we have a partnership with them and we have seen them for the first time in the last year take on the threat that existed within their country that they had not addressed in quite some time, so again, i'm not going to get into specifics about the investigation. that will come if we desire to talk about them more from the department of justice. i would characterized our relationship as good and i would characterize one of the things that has happened over the course of the past year as a far greater cooperation between the two governments and pleased with that continued cooperation. >> senator clinton said in the 60 minutes interview did we not find the perpetrators in afghanistan behind this would be a bad thing and they have to do more. >> i think the pakistani government recognize

so this works for findley ohio, and warren, ohio, and bel aire, ohio and tip city, ohio, communities that have been hit hardby the greed and recklessness of wall street banks. it's pretty clear madam president. i yield the floor. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from pennsylvania. mr. casey: thank you madam president. madam president, i rise to speak about an amendment that i will be -- have introduced and will be noferg this debate de -- will be offering in this debate. i ask consent to call up amendment 3878 to -- let me revise that consent request. i'll ask to speak in this period about amendment number 3878. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. casey: the reason i rise to speak about this amendment is we're in the midst right now of the worst recession the worst economic climate since the 1930's. that's irrefutable. there's no dispute about that. we've had record job loss. more than 15 million americans out of work. in pennsylvania, some 582,000 people out of work with the unemployment rate hitting 9% in our state. i know a lot of other states have had double digit