[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 20 (Tuesday, February 7, 2012)]
[House]
[Pages H522-H523]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               DEMOCRATS READY TO WORK FOR ALL AMERICANS

  (Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today with my Democratic 
colleagues ready to work for all Americans. Unfortunately, this no-show 
Tea Party Republican Congress, which worked only 6 days during the 
entire month of January, is once again refusing to do its job. You see, 
at the end of February, taxes will increase for 160 million middle 
class Americans unless the Mitt Romney Tea Party Republicans drop their 
incessant demands to cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires. I ask 
my Tea Party colleagues to stop holding the payroll tax cut hostage. We 
must protect unemployment insurance and fix the Medicare payment 
schedule so that seniors can see the doctor of their choice.
  It's time for this Tea Party brinksmanship to come to an end, for

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Republicans to come to work, and for this Congress to go to work for 
the American people, not just the millionaires and billionaires.

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