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On the recordDecember 20, 2011
I yield myself an additional 30 seconds. Now, the only way for us to really instill certainty in the unemployed and in those 160,000 million Americans who would like to continue to have their tax cut is for us to pass the Senate compromise and for us to really say to those people that we want you to have a pleasant holiday season and we'll all come back here the first of the year and give you an additional 10 months. How much time do I now have remaining, Mr. Speaker? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman has 2\1/4\ minutes remaining.
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Jim Clyburn
Democratic · South Carolina
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Dec 20, 2011

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