[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 197 (Tuesday, December 20, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H9949]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        SUPPORT SENATE SOLUTION

  (Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker and Members of the 
House, it is so unfortunate that today we find ourselves continuing to 
argue over whether or not an extension of the middle class tax cut 
should take place now as opposed to continuing to try to load the bill 
up with poison pills, cutting off people's unemployment insurance, and 
getting into an argument with the Senate.
  The proposal after a year of deliberations that the Republicans came 
up with was rejected in the Senate on a bipartisan basis. Another bill 
was passed overwhelmingly to give us a 2-month extension so that we can 
continue to try to work out a long-term solution to a middle class tax 
cut without accepting poison pills.
  But now what we see is the Republicans choose to turn down that 
compromise that brought the Senate together, that can bring this House 
together, to refuse to let us have a vote on that measure because they 
know there will be bipartisan support for that measure in this House.
  We can come together and, in this holiday season, give American 
middle class families the security that they will have a continuation 
of the tax cut on January 1, but that's not what the Republicans are 
going to do. They're going to throw families and our economy into chaos 
for the sake of trying to make political points.

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