[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 11994]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             KEEP TAX RATES LOW FOR MIDDLE CLASS AMERICANS

  (Ms. HAHN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. HAHN. Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Government Accountability Office 
revealed that the debt ceiling crisis Republicans put this country 
through last August cost us taxpayers $1.3 billion. Now, Americans are 
hearing that they may be put through that wringer again.
  I hope my Republican friends would agree with me that the middle 
class families are the backbone of our economy. Keeping their taxes at 
their historically low rate is the best way to get our economy back on 
track.
  Unfortunately, that middle class tax cut extension is under threat. 
My friends on the other side of the aisle are demanding, instead, that 
the superrich get their tax breaks.
  This isn't the way forward. We tried tax breaks for the rich and tax 
giveaways for the corporations during the Bush years. It didn't work.
  Let's keep tax rates low for the middle class Americans and move this 
country forward.

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