House Proceeding on Jun 12th, 2008 :: 0:44:27 to 0:47:52
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saying that the pay-go rule they wrote and the promise they made to the american people can be ignored whenever it's conveent or expedient. madam speaker, my purpose in raising the issue

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Jim Matheson: of pay-go rules being violated is not to use it as an argument against extension of unemployment benefits. but to point out that the broken promises of hypocrisy of the liberal leaders of

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Speech By: Jim Matheson

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Jim Matheson: this congress. they claim it's ok to ignore pay-go because american people pay an unemployment insurance tax out of every paycheck. so it's american people's own money that's paying for the bill.

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Jim Matheson: well, when it comes to income tax increases, that's american people's money, too. yet it was just two days ago that the democrat majority leader flat out declared that americans will face billions

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Jim Matheson: of dollars of tax increases this year if expiring tax breaks aren't offset by pay-go rules. madam speaker, the leader of this house are using pay-go to hold hostage tax relief legislation

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Jim Matheson: that would prevent 25 million americans from having their tax goes up by an average of $2,000 next april to pay the a.m.t. tax. they are holding extension of the state sales tax deduction hostage

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Jim Matheson: under pay-go rules by requiring taxes to be increased so that the residen of sales tax states, like my state, can be treated as fairly and equally as residents of income tax states. for

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Jim Matheson: the leaders of this congress, pay-go is an excuse to raise taxes by billions of dollars, but pay-go kg ignored when they mutate long-standing unemployment benefits to allow someone who works

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Jim Matheson: just two weeks, just two weeks to get an entire year's worth of benefit checks. this extension of unemployment benefits is labeled as an emergency, madam speaker, as an emergency because

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Jim Matheson: unemployment rose from 5% to 5.5% last month. it's stated that this is the largest one-month increase in two decades. so congress must now pass legislation. this one-month increase of 10% is

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Jim Matheson: justification for urgent, immediate action that this house and the senate must clear all other schedules and vote to pass this legislation without delay. . that's what's been said. madam speaker,

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Jim Matheson: where's the same level of urgency and need for immediate action on gas prices? gas prices have gone up over 10% in the last month. americans aren't just paying the highest gas prices in the past

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David Dreier: two decades. they are paying the highest prices ever, ever recorded in the history of this country. almost every day the price of gasoline sets a new record. since democrats took control of congress,

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Speech By: David Dreier