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On the recordMay 8, 2014
I rise because today in the House we will bring up a vote on approximately $310 billion of permanent tax credit extenders, including the very popular research and experimentation credit, a bipartisan-supported tax extender, but this is something that is being brought up without a pay-for at a time when the United States of America now has 2.6 million citizens who have lost their long-term unemployment benefits. In my State of Pennsylvania alone, we have 125,000 families who lost that lifeline because, Mr. Speaker, you refuse to bring this up for a vote because it doesn't have a pay-for. Fair is fair, Mr. Speaker. We support many of these extenders, but we can't leave these American families out in the cold like this. ____________________
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Matt Cartwright
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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