On the recordDecember 20, 2011
Well done, my good and faithful servants. That must be what the Koch brothers and the corporate Tea Party backers are saying. Their Republican Party in the House has for the whole year been able to stave off any fairness by protecting their millionaires and billionaires from being denied tax breaks. Here we are at the end of the session, and they leave having not allowed this body to vote on the bipartisan agreement that the Senate reached with the House leadership's consent--an agreement that passed 89-10--and they went home. So we won't get a chance to vote on that package. They refused to let us do so. That's the story that we end with. That's the bottom line, and that's the way it is. ____________________
