[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 166 (Wednesday, December 15, 2010)]
[House]
[Pages H8358-H8359]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         EXTENDING THE TAX CUTS

  (Ms. BERKLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. BERKLEY. I rise to support the tax compromise that will be coming 
to the floor for a vote this week.
  I represent the State that has the highest unemployment rate in the 
country. In my district, almost one in five people that I represent, 20 
percent, are unemployed. The extension of those unemployment benefits 
is critical to the survival of thousands of the families that call Las 
Vegas home.
  In addition to that, I represent a working class town. People think 
of Las Vegas as glitz and glitter, but it's glitzy and glittery because 
of all the working men and women that call Las Vegas home. I represent 
waiters and waitresses and busboys and Keno runners and cocktail 
waitresses and valet parkers and showgirls. They're all middle-income 
wage earners, and to extend that middle-income tax cut is critical to 
them.
  The alternative minimum tax extension is important to 33,000 Las 
Vegans that will be ensnared by that alternative minimum tax if we 
don't pass it. The earned income tax credit, the marriage penalty tax 
credit, the child care tax credit, for the people I represent, so many 
of them single women with children and working, they need this child 
care tax credit.
  Let's all vote for it.

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