Carolyn Maloney: “I thank the gentleman for yielding. The President has announced that we cannot leave Congress without passing an…”

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. The President has announced that we cannot leave Congress without passing an extension of the middle class tax cut and an extension of unemployment benefits. Now, originally, the ``no new taxes'' folks in the GOP Republican Senate said that they couldn't do that, that they were going to let the middle class tax increase expire, they were going to let the taxes increase on the middle class, but they were going to refuse to raise taxes on the superrich. Now, if you were not superrich, this was bad news for 99 percent of all Americans; and they spoke out, and they said they would like this tax cut. Now the Republicans have come back with all types of riders that the President does not support. We need a clean bill. The payroll tax cut that the Democrats are supporting would mean that a typical middle class family would have 1,000 extra dollars to spend. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired. Mr. McGOVERN. I yield the gentlelady an additional 30 seconds.”