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Sheila Jackson Lee: “People who are hungry for payroll tax relief, $1,000; people who are looking for the unemployment extension; those who…”

On the recordDecember 19, 2011
People who are hungry for payroll tax relief, $1,000; people who are looking for the unemployment extension; those who are getting $1,000, those who would be beneficiaries of the 400,000 jobs, and those who will be beneficiaries of the unemployment extension that will help them pay their mortgage or help them pay their rent or food or the necessities of life, putting those monies into the economy, the American people thought we were finished, thought we had compromised, thought we had risen to our higher angels. And so, if our soldiers and those who are returning can do their job, I'm pleading, in a bipartisan manner, let us vote for the Senate bill. Let us move this forward, and let us realize that we are the masters of our fate.
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Sheila Jackson Lee
Democratic · Texas
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Dec 19, 2011

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