[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 166 (Wednesday, December 15, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H8358]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         EXTENDING THE TAX CUTS

  (Mr. COSTA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. COSTA. Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of extending tax 
cuts to American families and businesses.
  This week, we have a choice. Congress can continue the campaign 
politics of the past year or Republicans and Democrats can set aside 
their talking points and get something done for the American people. I 
support the latter.
  In my district, families are putting together their budgets and 
trying to make ends meet under difficult times. Small businesses are 
trying to make hiring decisions for next year. Family farmers are 
scared of losing their operations due to a looming bump in the estate 
tax, their inability to pass the farms on to their children.
  In this struggling, fragile economic recovery, we cannot afford to 
let this happen. After months of partisan gridlock, it's time for 
Members of this House to listen to the American people and prevent 
their taxes from going up on January 1.
  Delay is not an option. I call on the Congress to send the 
commonsense compromise, that is a compromise--that means by its very 
nature we have things that we like and things we dislike in the 
package--before us and send it to the President's desk, and then we 
must get serious about addressing and putting our Nation's fiscal house 
in order, which is job number one.

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