[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 21441]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  NO TAX CUTS UNDER THE CHRISTMAS TREE

  (Ms. EDWARDS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. EDWARDS. I didn't think I'd have to take to the floor again; but 
now that the House Republicans have walked away from the American 
people, it bears notice.
  There are 160 million American people across this country who are 
going to see their taxes go up come January 1. There are 2.3 million 
Americans, including 46,000 of them in my home State of Maryland, who 
will not get an unemployment check. There are 48 million Americans, 
mostly our seniors, who are going to see their benefits essentially 
ripped out from under them in Medicare as their doctors won't be able 
to treat them because their doctors are getting a cut.
  I'm not really sure which Christmas House Republicans are 
celebrating, but in my house it's a Christmas of charity and of 
goodness. I am so saddened that here in this House we have ripped out 
from under the Christmas tree the Christmas for millions of American 
families who will not get to go into the New Year with a tax cut and 
who will go into the New Year without an unemployment check. The House 
Republicans have done a great disservice to this country.

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