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On the recordDecember 2, 2010
I yield the gentleman an additional 30 seconds. Mr. McDERMOTT. To pay for food or to pay the mortgage, they're going to look in their Christmas stockings and see what? Coal. We know how this movie is going to turn out. This bill will pass over to the Senate. It will come back with the big tax cuts for the rich. Some of us are going to vote ``no.'' We will vote ``yes'' today, but ``no'' when it comes back because it isn't fair to the unemployed people of this country that the rich get their money for sure when we dole it out to the unemployed one bite at a time.
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Mike Levin
Democratic · California

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