Senate Proceeding 05-13-09 on May 13th, 2009 :: 0:32:00 to 0:36:10
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Speech By: Blanche Lincoln

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Blanche Lincoln: quorum call: mrs. lincoln: i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mrs. lincoln: mr. president, i also ask unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mrs. lincoln: thank you, mr. president. i have come to my colleagues floor last week when i ce to the senate floor to announce a

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Blanche Lincoln: new plan to give working families and businesses the tools that they need to succeed during this current economic crisis that we're in. mr. president, i come today also to add to my arkansas plan, a package of tax cuts and tax simplification measures designed

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Blanche Lincoln: to move arkansas and our states' hard-working families forward. together the tax measures will allow working families and small businesses to get ahead and emerge from the economic crisis stronger and more competive. we've got a lot of small businesses, hard-working families down in arkansas, entrepreneurs, who, unfortunately, feel like during this crisis they're not getting

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Blanche Lincoln: much out of washington. we want to change that attitude and make sure they are getting our support and that we as the gove atmosphere and an environment wh we're also going to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship to create new jobs and lessen our dependence on foreign oil and reduce the burden on working

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Blanche Lincoln: families and small businesses by simplifying our tax code. it is way too complicated these days. we've cannot use for its intended purposes. that is, obviously, to encourage good, healthy businesses to thrive and to be competive. now, last week, mr., i intremendous duesed a number of measures to allow working

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Blanche Lincoln: families and small businesses to emerge from the economic crisis stronger and more competive than before. this week, my arkansas plan focuses on encouraging innovation and entrepreneursp to create new jobs h and lessen our dependence foreign oil. all of us want to be able to be more independent

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Blanche Lincoln: we want to make sure that we're creating jobs here and we also want to know that globally we're more independent as a country and not seeing that dependence on foreign oil coming from other places. yesterday, u.s.a. jobs act of 2009 which offers a new research and development bonus incentive to

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Blanche Lincoln: companies that both research and manufacture their products in the united states. now, before in the stimulus package, mr. president, we extended the research and development tax credit to encourage more research and development of new ideas and new products, new metho we could create jobs from those. now we also need to make sure

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Blanche Lincoln: we're not sending those new ideas and that new research somewhere else on the globe to be able to be produced or manufactured. we want to inctivize that it stays right here at home. our nation faces record unemployment with more than 540,000 americans put out of work last month alone.

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Blanche Lincoln: it's more important now than ever before that we the creation and preservation of american jobs. my bill provides a new jobs tax credit for a substantial portion of their research and manufacturing right here at home in the united states.

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Blanche Lincoln: this new tax credit will encourage production which would in turn lead to the creation of more american jobs. today, i'm focused on a series of alternative energy and conservation proposals, as well. my first bill provides an even playing field for all renewable energy production. the federal tax code currently

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Blanche Lincoln: offers an income tax credit for the production of electricity produced from renewable resources but not all resources are treated the same, mr. president.