Unanimous-Consent Requests
Floor Speech
Issues: Taxes Government Budget and Spending
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Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. President, reserving the right to object--and I wonder if I might be recognized to speak following the objection I intend to make--reserving the right to object, Republicans have said that we believe the single most important step we can take to create jobs is to keep the current tax rates, which will go up automatically on January 1; secondly, we need to fund the government--funding expires this Friday; and that after that, we can move to whatever else the Democratic leader would like to bring up. We should fund the government, keep the tax rates where they are, freeze spending, and go home.
I object.
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