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Partisan Budget Puts Jobs, Economy at Risk

May 17, 2007



‘I voted against the Democrats’ budget because it is the prescription for the largest tax hike in history’



Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell released the following statement Thursday on the conference report for the Democrats’ tax-and-spend budget:



“At the beginning of this Congress we pledged to work together across party lines to benefit hard-working Americans. But by penalizing them with an extra $736 billion in taxes, this budget does not live up to that promise.



“I voted against the Democrats’ budget because it is the prescription for the largest tax hike in history, it fails to reform the crisis of entitlement programs such as Social Security, fails to control government spending and piles up trillions in debt. This tax-and-spend budget is a mistake. Sadly, it isn’t just about numbers on a page, it’s about our jobs, paychecks, and economy—and this budget puts those all at risk.”



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Bipartisan Proposal for Border Security, Immigration Reform

May 17, 2007

‘Secure borders, real security infrastructure are required for my support of any legislation’



Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following statement Thursday regarding the bipartisan proposal on border security and immigration reform:



“It’s encouraging to see a group of Senators from such a wide arc of the political spectrum reach an agreement on one of the most difficult issues facing our nation. The need to secure our borders, and to have a real security infrastructure in place is critical; it’s a requirement for my support of any legislation. I believe the agreement is far stronger than the bill the Senate produced last year. I will review the text of the bill and I hope to be able to support it when the Senate turns to this issue next week."



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Next Steps on the Security Supplemental

May 16, 2007



‘It won’t have a surrender date,’ McConnell says



WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell appeared on CNBC this evening. He discussed the surrender date legislation defeated in the Senate and the next steps for the supplemental funding bill. The following are excerpts from the program:



On the Senate’s bipartisan rejection of the surrender date legislation:



“I think the Democrats demonstrated today there are only 29 out of 100 votes here in the Senate for a date for surrender. Now, having demonstrated that, actually on entirely different bill, we will get the appropriation bill into conference with the House tomorrow. Sen. Reid and I will sit down with the President's designee, Josh Bolten his chief of staff, and we'll begin to negotiate a final settlement of the actual troop funding bill.



On the supplemental funding bill:



“I believe there's a great likelihood…that we'll have a measure the President can sign on his desk before Memorial Day.”

“It will be on the President's terms. I think probably some benchmarks for the Iraqi government in there—almost everybody is in favor of that.”



“Beyond that it won't have surrender date; only 29 members of the Senate voted for that earlier today. And it will get the funding to the troops—not divided up, two months now and two months later, like the House bill—but a full-term, four-month bill.”



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