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Joe Pitts: “If this new law is so outstanding, I wonder why the administration has granted over 1,000 waivers to their friends so…”

On the recordJuly 10, 2012
If this new law is so outstanding, I wonder why the administration has granted over 1,000 waivers to their friends so they don't have to meet the requirements of the law. The President promised not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000. He has broken that pledge 20 times with this new law. Many of them are impacting the middle class that he promised not to raise taxes on. That's $800 billion in new taxes. My friends, the American people have a clear choice: Keep this law and pay the new taxes or take the law off the books and let's start over again with some real free-market reforms. I urge support for the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.
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Joe Pitts
Republican · Pennsylvania
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Jul 10, 2012

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