Dec 18, 2011

DCCC Chairman Steve Israel’s Statement on Speaker Boehner Blocking Payroll Tax Cut Extension

DCCC Chairman Steve Israel released the following statement after House Speaker John Boehner and House Republicans made clear they will oppose a bipartisan payroll tax cut extension that overwhelmingly passed the Senate on Saturday.

"This is a partisan middle class mugging by extreme House Republicans. At a time when hard-working families need every dollar in their pockets, House Republicans and their Tea Party extremists will have mugged $1,000 from the middle class.

"Nearly forty Republicans in the Senate voted for a middle class tax cut compromise and now extreme House Republicans are ready to scuttle it and sock the middle class with a tax hike on January 1st. Their partisanship will cost Americans money."

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