[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 10962-10963]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         MIDDLE CLASS TAX CUTS

  (Ms. HOCHUL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. HOCHUL. Madam Speaker, after a week of traveling my district from 
Lancaster to Warsaw in upstate New York, I heard one consistent 
message. Our constituents, particularly the middle class, want to know 
their economic situation. They want to know, they're asking this 
Congress: Are you going to extend the tax cuts that they've now enjoyed 
to the tune of $1,500 to $2,500 a year? That's an important answer we 
should be able to give them this week.
  Instead of looking backwards and relitigating old battles, why don't 
we look forward and give them the confidence they need as they're 
making their plans?
  Families all across my district are doing what I did as a mother for 
15 years every summer trying to figure

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out how much are you going to spend on school shopping in the fall. Are 
you going to be able to plan that vacation with your family? What about 
Christmas shopping? You're thinking about it now. Maybe you can even 
squeeze in enough money to go to a Buffalo Bills game with your family.
  Let's give them the certainty they need now. Let's work in a 
bipartisan way, Democrats and Republicans together. Let's enact a 
permanent middle class tax cut.

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