[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 10 (Tuesday, January 24, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H130]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     AMERICANS LIVING ON EDGE TODAY

  (Mrs. CHRISTENSEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. CHRISTENSEN. Too many of our fellow Americans are living on the 
edge today and have been for far too long. The last thing they need is 
another showdown at the Not-OK Corral.
  They need jobs. They need to save or go back into their homes. And 
for those who have been living in poverty or those who used to be in 
the middle class but are now struggling to survive below the poverty 
level, they need us to help provide the opportunity to help lift them 
and their families out of poverty and to a better life. Our President 
is coming to us tonight to again offer us some opportunities to do all 
of these things and more and to restore our country's economic health.
  So let's not put our fellow Americans through another cliffhanger on 
things that are important to their well-being. Let us pass the payroll 
and unemployment insurance extension, fix the Medicare payment issue 
without drama, and come together to work on the bipartisan measures 
that the President will ask us to pass for our people and our country.

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