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Barbara Boxer: “I need to repeat that. Because of their concern for those 315,000, out of 307 million Americans, who earn over $1…”

On the recordDecember 4, 2010
I need to repeat that. Because of their concern for those 315,000, out of 307 million Americans, who earn over $1 million a year, the Republicans, to a person, stopped a tax cut for 99.9 percent of the American people. I cannot tell my colleagues how bizarre that is to me. Not only did they block tax cuts for everyone except for that one-tenth of 1 percent, they also turned their backs on the unemployed, 2 million of whom have lost their benefits or are about to lose their unemployment benefits. In my State of California, 400,000 people are losing those benefits.
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Barbara Boxer
Democratic · California
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Dec 4, 2010

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Senator Boxer addresses the impact of Republican actions on tax cuts and unemployment benefits.

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