01/31/13 Senator Dan Coats (R-Ind.), Senior Senate Republican on the Joint Economic Committee Wednesday spoke on the Senate floor to discuss the need for the Senate to offer and pass a budget. Coats noted it has been 1,372 days since the Senate has passed a budget. The following are excerpts from his speech: “It...
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  01/25/13 Senator Dan Coats (R-Ind.) Thursday spoke on the Senate floor to continue his push for Congress to focus on addressing out-of-control government spending, not increasing taxes as the president has proposed. The following are excerpts from his speech: “The fact is that we are not going to be able to get our...
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  01/24/13 Senator Dan Coats (R-Ind.), Senior Senate Republican on the bicameral Joint Economic Committee, Tuesday spoke on the Senate floor and said that addressing out-of-control government spending should be the top priority of the 113th Congress. In his speech, Coats said, “Just last week Fitch Ratings warned that America’s AAA credit rating is...
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11/11/11 Senator Dan Coats (R-Ind.)  Thursday voted for a resolution introduced by Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to block implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR), which is set to go into effect in January. Enacting CSAPR will require hundreds of coal-fired plants in 27 states, including Indiana, to retrofit...
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11/10/11 Senators Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Dan Coats (R-Ind.) introduced the bipartisan “Fair Compliance Act” today to create reasonable timelines and benchmarks for utilities to comply with two major Environmental Protection Agency to protect jobs and keep utility rates stable. The legislation would extend the compliance deadline for the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR)...
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