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Democrats Ready to Work for All Americans

Floor Speech

Date: Feb. 7, 2012
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Senior Citizens Unemployed and Low-Income Employment and Affirmative Action Taxes Health Insurance

Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today with my Democratic colleagues ready to work for all Americans. Unfortunately, this no-show Tea Party Republican Congress, which worked only 6 days during the entire month of January, is once again refusing to do its job. You see, at the end of February, taxes will increase for 160 million middle class Americans unless the Mitt Romney Tea Party Republicans drop their incessant demands to cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires. I ask my Tea Party colleagues to stop holding the payroll tax cut hostage. We must protect unemployment insurance and fix the Medicare payment schedule so that seniors can see the doctor of their choice.

It's time for this Tea Party brinksmanship to come to an end, for Republicans to come to work, and for this Congress to go to work for the American people, not just the millionaires and billionaires.


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