[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11569]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          EXTENDING TAX RELIEF

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Herger) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. HERGER. Madam Speaker, coming from a small business background, I 
originally ran for public office not because of what government was 
doing for me, but rather what it was doing to me.
  Many small business owners in my northern California district feel 
the same way, but apparently the President isn't getting that message. 
The other day he said:
  If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made 
that happen.
  Madam Speaker, perhaps that is why he's so determined to raise taxes 
on small businesses on January 1. Now Senate Democrats are saying that 
if they can't get their small business tax hike, they'll let taxes go 
up for everyone. That's just wrong. Let's stop the tax hike for all 
Americans.

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