Janice Hahn: “Yesterday the Government Accountability Office revealed that the debt ceiling crisis Republicans put this country…”

“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. ____________________”