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On the recordDecember 13, 2011
This weekend I attended a senior citizen party and we had a dance contest, and two people would hold a stick and others would try to go under it. And the disk jockey would ask the question: How low can you go? Can you go to the floor? And I submit that if we refuse to provide unemployment tax extensions, I'd have to ask the Congress: How low can you go? Can you go to the floor? ____________________
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Danny Davis
Democratic · Illinois

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