[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 21 (Wednesday, February 8, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H592]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          REPUBLICAN HYPOCRISY

  (Ms. CLARKE of New York asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. CLARKE of New York. Madam Speaker, today we find ourselves in the 
unfortunate and familiar position of running out the clock on the 
American people.
  The Republican majority seems to have no problem moving Heaven and 
Earth to preserve tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. However, they 
seem content to allow taxes to rise for the working poor and middle 
class. The majority's orthodoxy that tax cuts solve every problem seems 
not to extend to those that need it the most. This tax hypocrisy has 
not gone unnoticed by the American people.
  Madam Speaker, the 112th Congress has not passed one job-creating 
bill in the face of this stubbornly high unemployment. And instead of 
addressing the jobs crisis, they are continuing their assault on the 
unemployed by threatening to cut off aid to those who would rather have 
a job in the first place.
  I urge the majority to put aside election-year politics and pass a 
long-term payroll tax extension and extend unemployment benefits, 
especially in light of their failure to address the need for more job 
opportunity.

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