[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16138]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                         MIDDLE CLASS TAX CUTS

  (Mr. CROWLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CROWLEY. Mr. Speaker, the American people have spoken. In this 
last election, they said to all of us: start to work together; have an 
agenda that serves the people of our country.
  We've all heard the expression that time is fleeting. Never before 
has that expression been more important in my 14 years here in the 
House of Representatives. We have very few working days and even fewer 
days this week because of the House schedule put before us by the 
leadership of the House to actually work on the people's business and 
pass a middle class tax cut that will affect 98 percent of working 
Americans. Ninety-eight percent of working Americans will get a tax cut 
by passing the Senate bill that they passed already that is now at the 
desk here in the House of Representatives in the form of a discharge 
petition.
  We're taking this action because we believe that time is running out. 
If we fail to pass this bill or something like it, the middle class in 
this country will see on average a $2,000 increase in their taxes. I 
don't know about anyone here in this Chamber, but I know my 
constituency doesn't want to pay a $2,000 tax.

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