[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 3]
[House]
[Pages 3148-3149]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




     REPEALING THE 1099 PROVISION'S NEGATIVE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES

  (Mr. RICHMOND asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RICHMOND. Mr. Speaker, my Republican colleagues came down here 
yesterday, and will do so again today, like a well-rehearsed choir 
singing the same song: Repeal the 1099 provision, repeal the 1099 
provision. They sang it in perfect harmony.
  However, they conveniently left out two verses. One, last year 239 
Democrats and only two Republicans voted to repeal it. Second, they 
will pay for the repeal by reaching into the pockets of working 
Americans and yanking out $25 billion. That's just wrong.
  So, Mr. Speaker, I remind my colleagues that their song has two 
additional verses. Just because they won't

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sing about their tax increase doesn't mean the American people won't 
feel it. I, too, want to repeal the 1099 provision, but this is not the 
way to pay for it.
  Mr. Speaker I yield back because I will not be a co-conspirator to 
snatching $25 billion out of the bank accounts of hardworking 
Americans.

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