House Proceeding on Jun 14th, 2006 :: 1:06:57 to 1:10:43
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Speech By: Tom Davis

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Tom Davis: urge a no vote on the delauro amendment. the chairman: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from massachusetts rise? mr. olver: mr. chairman, i move to strike the last word.

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Marion Berry: the chairman: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. olver: mr. chairman, i yield three minutes to the gentleman from arkansas, mr. barry. -- mr. berry. the chairman: the gentleman

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Speech By: Marion Berry

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Marion Berry: is recognized. mr. berry: i thank the gentleman from massachusetts, and i rise to support the delauro amendment. it's a sad day in america when someone comes to this house floor to tell us that

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Marion Berry: we have to depend on companies that renounce their american citizenship to save a few tax dollars to get quality products, work manship, or services. -- workmanship or services. we had a great debate

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Marion Berry: a few months ago about allowing a foreign company to take over six of our ports. we almost universally agreed that was a bad idea. it doesn't make any difference, and those companies hadn't

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Marion Berry: renounced their u.s. citizenship. they were foreign companies. i didn't think it was a good idea and i don't know anybody else that did. i'm sure there were those -- at least the president thought

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Marion Berry: it was. but why would we think it was a good idea to turn over the federal business, the business of the american people that is paid for by their tax dollars to companies that say i don't

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Marion Berry: want to pay my fair share, i want to go to bermuda or panama or cayman islands or wherever else and i'm going to pull these little slick tricks and i'm going to basically not pay my fair

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Marion Berry: share, but i want all the benefits of being an american. i want all the benefits of being an american company. i want to get those american tax dollars so that my company can profit even more

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Marion Berry: and pay even less of its fair share. that's what this is all about. i know a really good attorney. he's got a dog named loophole. that's what this business about we've already covered this -- it was

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Marion Berry: covered all right, it was covered with a nice, big, fat loophole that made it possible for companies that have renounced their american citizenship just so they didn't have to pay their fair

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Marion Berry: share and could still come in and rake in the tax dollars in a way that is most unfair to our own companies. it gives these foreign companies an advantage over u.s. companies, and this

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Marion Berry: is just simply not right. you don't have to be all broke out in brilliance to figure this out. and it's time this house acted. we have done it before and it's time that we do it again, and

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Marion Berry: it's time that we start giving people that value their american citizenship as good a deal as it is possible to give them. and i would urge support of this amendment. thank you, mr. chairman.

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Marion Berry: the chairman: the chair wishes to advise the ranking minority member of the subcommittee that he cannot yield blocks of time under his request to strike the last word. so the gentleman does

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Marion Berry: have two minutes remaining. the gentleman has to control the entire five minutes and cannot yield blocks of time. mr. olver: i cannot yield any further time? i cannot yield any time? the

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Rosa L. DeLauro: chairman: that's correct. you cannot yield blocks of time. you can yield to anyone, but not for certain time periods. mr. olver: ah, i see. the chairman: the gentleman is recognized for two

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Speech By: Rosa L. DeLauro