[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 167 (Thursday, December 16, 2010)]
[House]
[Pages H8523-H8524]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            TAX CUT PROPOSAL DEFINES CONTRASTING PRIORITIES

  (Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I'm here this 
morning to simply say that Democrats continue to fight to maintain tax 
cuts on income up to $250,000 for couples and $200,000 for individuals. 
My Republican colleagues continue to demand tax cuts for all incomes, 
including millionaires and billionaires.

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  I ask my Democrats to please continue to extend the unemployment 
benefits to help out Americans to make it through this recession, and I 
plead with my Republican colleagues to not hold the middle class and 
unemployment hostage any longer.
  I also recommend that we help the 155 million middle class Americans 
at a cost of $214 billion, and I plead with my colleagues to join us in 
assisting to help because only 4.8 million of the country's wealthiest, 
at a cost of $133 billion, is what we are trying to make a decision on.
  Please join me and look out for the working people of this country, 
and let the billionaires continue to pay the bills.

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