mr mccain sir nelson of florida of nebraska mr rockefeller santorum mr sarbanes mr schumer mr sessions mr shelby mr smith ms snow mr mr warner senators voting in the negative of alexander allard alan bond brownback bunning burns for chambliss cochran and coleman collins mr smith mr smith no mrs lincoln mrs lincoln hi there are now two minutes equally divided on the hudson motion to instruct its president senator from texas mr president i rise to speak in favor of the amendment i certainly hope that our colleagues will vote to instruct c a basic issue of fairness today there are eight states that have sales taxes but not a state income tax until two years ago they were disadvantaged by not being able to deduct their sales taxes from their federal income taxes where as an income tax state would allow their pay or so to do that it is very important in this country that we have to tax equity in fact the motion to instruct would give equity to all it creates jobs because there is more economic activity where you have the same treatment of people in all of taxpayers would have to choose between deducting their sales tax costs or their their income costs their expense that the taxpayer lives in a state that chooses to have some sales have sales tax and income tax both why should they be penalized this motion isn't fair for the people in my state or many states like mine with both sales and income taxes the federal government should not be micromanaging state tax systems if we had the expense we are allow the deduction if we're going to allow the deduction of state self actually should allow it no matter where mr johnson mr kennedy senators voting in the negative i mr thomas mr thomas mr no way  mr lieberman i the voter wishing to change their vote if not on this vote the yeas are seventy five the nays are twenty five the motion to instruct passes mr mr president with all the with this rapid of vote reveal why it's hard i know to get order but in a minute it's tough and i don't want to use my time asking for quiet emotion simple it says a conferees need to come back with a final bill that does not increase the national debt so if you vote against this you're saying it's ok to increase national debt lord knows what we've got by way of debt it's drowning us and will be paid for by our children and our grandchildren it's reckless to charge another fifty billion dollars on our nation's credit card when we have another option we can pay for these tax cuts by closing egregious tax loopholes like the six billion dollars for oil companies on the front page of the paper this morning with record earnings and whether you voted for or against the bill we should all agree that we should not stick future generations with the bill and that's what my motion says it's very simple valentine's day voted time's expired increasing the national debt mr president or for milo i would like to through the president of the senate inform the senator from new jersey that his amendment would increase taxes on new people in new jersey the dividend eight hundred thirty eight thousand capital gains two hundred seventy thousand new jerseyans if we don't do something about the a m t six hundred thousand new jersey people from new jersey if we don't have the two asian college tuition tax deduction one hundred  twenty one thousand and teacher d duction one hundred twenty seven thousand i don't know how anybody would want to increase taxes on people in their state for that amount of money if you take his approach and and i have to offset all these things there aren't enough also sicko around to take care of the hundred ideas we got a year of our taxes ought to be reduced and and we now have taxes coming into the country of eighteen percent into the gross national product per sixty year average how high did taxes have to be to satisfy the senator from new jersey that taxes are high and senator time's expired the question is on the motion to instruct those in favor mr by mr bannon mr biden mr bingham and mr bond mrs boxer mr brownback mr bunning mr mr conrad mr in the hall mr in away mr nelson of florida mr nelson of nebraska mr obama mr pryor now mr stevens mr sarbanes mr sarbanes  mr specter mr specter no are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote on this vote the age or forty six the nays are fifty four the motion to instruct is not agreed to senator from my i have  unanimous consent requests for committees to meet during today's session of the senate they have the approval of the majority minority leaders i ask unanimous consent that these requests be agreed to and that the request be printed in the record is their objection without objection ordered mr president i ask unanimous consent that the senate stand in recess until two fifteen today for weekly policy luncheons without objection so ordered the senate is in recess until two fifteen