Steven Holt: “Just last week I came to the floor and spoke to the need for this body to prevent a tax increase for 160 million…”

“Just last week I came to the floor and spoke to the need for this body to prevent a tax increase for 160 million American workers. Yet today, the House Majority is actually voting to raise taxes for middle class families. Under their plan taxes go up on January 1, 2012 for 160 million workers, unemployment benefits expire and seniors lose access to their doctors. I am voting to prevent that from happening. They can claim all they want they support tax relief for middle class families, but today they are rejecting the compromise that passed the U.S. Senate with broad bipartisan support and that could be signed into law by President Obama. Instead of helping pass this real bipartisan compromise, the House Majority is claiming they want to help ordinary people even as their actions show otherwise. The American people will pay the price with higher taxes next year. Members of the Majority opposed this tax cut for middle class Americans a year ago and they are even more opposed to its extension now.”