Canseco Votes To Provide American Families and Businesses with Certainty in 2012

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Congressman Francisco "Quico" Canseco (TX-23), an advocate in the U.S. House of Representatives for fiscal responsibility, released the following statement after voting in favor of a motion to go to conference with the Senate on the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act (H.R. 3630). By voting in favor of the motion, Canseco voted to advance the process in Congress towards securing a one year extension of the payroll tax cut instead of the Senate-passed mere two month extension.

"The Senate is wrong. We need to give American families certainty for the year ahead, not just two months. Non partisan experts have said the Senate's plan is unworkable. The Senate is playing politics by kicking the can down the road and taking the easy way out. Therefore, I will vote for - as I have already done- and continue to fight for a year-long extension to give middle class Americans the certainty they need."

A motion to go to conference is a procedure to convene a Conference Committee, which is comprised of members from the House of Representatives and United States Senate who meet to resolve differences in bills passed between the House and Senate. The Conference process has been used since the 1st Congress (1789-1791) and has been a widely-used procedure ever since. In fact, conference committees were most recently used to work out differences on a final spending bill for 2012 and the final version of the National Defense Authorization Act for 2012, which both passed the House and Senate last week.

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