[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 1151]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                           SPEAK UP, AMERICA

  (Mr. RANGEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. RANGEL. Well, I think I have some good news. Most Americans 
believe that when the Congress does not do what they want to happen 
that they can wait until Election Day, and then they remind us that we 
let them down. Certainly, I remember when this unemployment 
compensation and the holiday for taxpayers, as well as the payment of 
our doctors, was coming up a couple years ago, and it was almost 
Christmastime. Democrats really thought that, because of the Republican 
majority, and because they just felt that unemployed people getting 
compensation meant that they wouldn't look for work, or that they 
weren't paying enough taxes, or that they didn't want to deal with the 
question of the doctors--but still, after all of this battle, when the 
American people spoke up, they didn't wait until Election Day. They got 
on the phone. They called their House Members, Republicans and 
Democrats. They called everybody to say that they could not afford a 
sharp increase in their payroll deductions.
  So, do it again, because it really works. You're going to get these 
extensions. All you have to do is call and demand that you get what you 
deserve.

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