Senate Proceeding on Nov 1st, 2007 :: 0:17:40 to 0:20:39
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Harry Reid: business for 60 minutes with senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each, with the first 30 minutes under the control of the republicans and the final 30 minutes under the control of

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Elizabeth Dole: the majority. mrs. dole: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator north carolina. mrs. dole: mr. president, i ask for all of my colleagues to join me in support of senate approval of the

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Speech By: Elizabeth Dole

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Elizabeth Dole: national guard and reserve ist real estate leave act. this extends a critical benefit to our national guard and reserve ists, many of whom are serving in iraq and afghanistan. section 827 of the

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Elizabeth Dole: pension protection act of 2006 allows national guardsmen and reserve ist reservists called to active duty for at least six months to make penalty-free early withdrawals from their ira, 401(k) or 403

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Elizabeth Dole: 403(b) retirement accounts. this provision expires in less than two mantes months and my bill would make it benefit permanent for our service members and their families. our national guardsmen and

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Elizabeth Dole: reservists always stand ready to put their lives on hold and answer the call of duty. they can face lengthy deployment deployments that can cause major financial strains for their families, which only

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Elizabeth Dole: adds to the emotional stress these families face during extended separation from a loved one. in fact, according to a g.a.o. report, nearly 41% of reserve ists are affected by a pay scrape discrepancy.

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Elizabeth Dole: they account for nearly half of all u.s. military personnel. since september 11, 2001, more than 443,000 guard and reservist reservists have been deployed in support of the global war on terror, including

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Elizabeth Dole: nearly 93,000 currently deployed, pain mainly to iraq and asmght congress should take decisive action to ensure that this benefit does not expire for these fine young men and women should they find

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Elizabeth Dole: themselves in a deployment- deployment-relate ed financial crunch. the reserve officers association strongly supports the continuation of this tax relief measure. i also thank my colleagues colleague,

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Elizabeth Dole: senator lincoln, for cosponsoring this legislation. and i would add that a similar provision provided included in the pension protection act received broad bipartisan support. shortly congress will adjourn

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Elizabeth Dole: for two weeks for the thanksgiving recess. this means that there is limited opportunity to act to extend this assistance to those who have answered the call to serve. i ask every menl member who

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Elizabeth Dole: i know cares about our guard members, reserve ists and their families to support my legislation that this important benefit continues. thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor. mr. alexander: mr.

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Elizabeth Dole: president? the presiding officer: the sthor from tennessee. mr. alexander: mr. president, i'd like to say a word about tax fairness. last week i joined senator hutchison, senator cornyn and senator

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Lamar Alexander: corker from my home state of tennessee in introducing s. 2233. our gale goal with that legislation is to make the state and local sales tax deduction permanent. as a former governor, i know that

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Speech By: Lamar Alexander