[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 164 (Wednesday, December 19, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H7280]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                         RESOLVING FISCAL CLIFF

  (Ms. HANABUSA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. HANABUSA. Madam Speaker, people have no idea what we're doing 
because we don't know what we're doing. It reminds me of being in 
traffic: we all hurry to get to where--to another bottleneck and to 
wait.
  Resolving the fiscal cliff is an opportunity to show that we can work 
together in a bipartisan manner; but to do so, we must listen and put 
the people first and the party second. If we don't, a middle class 
family of four will see their taxes rise by $2,200 in 2013. 
Unemployment will go up to 9.1 percent.
  Remember, the cost of extending all of the Bush tax cuts is $2.4 
trillion in 10 years. Extend the middle class tax cuts and let the Bush 
tax cuts for the upper 2 percent return to the Clinton rates. We cannot 
sacrifice the middle class, the steady job growth that we've seen just 
to protect the upper 2 percent. This is not the message we want to 
send, and this is not the message Republicans want to send.

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